Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / July 2006

Very much people from the US and Canada visit this Dutch website:
http://www.kaartenstalletje.com (it's about cards)

I've come across this blog of pictures of beaches:
http://silversprite.wordpress.com/tag/beaches
They certainly look good ... and various "top beaches in the world"
lists in newspapers put the beaches at or near the best anywhere.

I'll be working on river-cruises again over the latter part of July
and most of August.
First one is a Netherlands and Belgium cruise: Nijmegen - Venlo -
Maastricht - Hasselt - Antwerp - Dordrecht - Amsterdam.

Non-stop flights between Naples and Nice seem to have been discontinued.
Does anyone know a carrier with the service?
Thanks
Richard

We, my wife and I - retired - want to take a conducted tour of Greece
that does _not_ include a litany of museums, churches, libraries, etc.
Mikonos, Santorini, Rhodes, etc.: been there done that.
We want to see Greece, the country - the towns and cities, the

nice and warm, it is currently dropped to 31°C however.
Tuesday could hit in the range of 32-34°C. This
is starting to get in the slightly over warm
temperatures.  Pleasant however, the apartment

We're going to Europe from Canada for 4 weeks. Leaving Aug 12, arriving
in London. Returning Sep 9 from Rome via London. I know, Rome is kind
of out of the way, but I definitely had to see it. And its only a 10
hour train ride from Paris, or 3 hour flight. Here's our itinerary..

From American folklore, I offer a poem
to the Germany nation, on this day of
grief, having lost to Italy
A famous American baseball poem ends with the lines

This looks like a pretty nasty rail accident.
"A fire brigade spokesman said two carriages of the train had come off
the rails in a tunnel at Jesus station."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5141542.stm

1. Where is it?
2. Should I watch out for any scams?
3. What is the going rate (more or less) for "services"?
Thanks,

Anyone familiar with Holland knows this popular franchise of coffee
shops sells pot and hashish. As an ex smoker of the stuff 20+ years
ago I had no intention of trying the stuff again. We were sitting in a
cafe in the main square striking up a conversation with the people on

I'm in Amasya, northern Turkey at the moment.  I seem to be the
only independent traveller in town.  But even in larger places like
Istanbul, I'm not seeing any independent travellers with visible
instruments.  Twenty years ago they were common.  Aren't any

My Thai Wife and I would like to visit my father. We live in the US ,
she has a US permanent resident card and I a British National. So does
she need a visa if we want to visit the UK?

A park dedicated to the lovers of chocolate is in the making at the
Dutch capital of Amsterdam. The cost is expected to amount to
20,000,000 euros and the park should be ready in two to three years.

Dublin Airport was severely disrupted for two hours today when a man
claimed that he had a bomb in his rucksack and the airport was
cleared. The claim proved to be false.
It takes a lot to get a busy airport back on track after losing two