Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / August 2006

Visiting my daughter near Frankfurt June 2007.  Looking for lots of
info like cheap flights, cheap places to stay when I go to Paris,
London, Dublin, cheap place to rent a car, weather conditions in June.
Also tips like best day of the week to travel, is it cheaper to fly

Online Dating Is Planned for Orangutans
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 15, 2006
Filed at 4:15 p.m. ET

Does anyone have any knowledge regarding Duinrell, and the surrounding
area? I am visiting with three children soon (from 21st August) and
have never visited before. We are staying for ten days and intend
spending the first seven days trying to do 'cultural stuff', then the

Does the equivalent of Mapquest or DeLorme's Street Atlas USA exist
for Europe?  Something with GPS capability preferred.

no outbound hand luggage except docs, glasses, medicines, nappies
etc, long delays, not sure LHR actually checking in at the
moment. In case you had not heard!
(18 arrested re terrorist attempt)

A bit better news:
'Each passenger is permitted to carry one item of cabin baggage through the
airport security search point.'
Read on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4789593.stm

Is this just another right wing scare tactic or a reality wake up call
for the left wing apologists?
Published 14/08/2006
Hunt on for baby bombers

Can anyone please give me the exact location of the famous catacombs in
Palermo?  I can't seem to find it, as well as the hours of operation?
I think I will be there on Sept. 22 - which is a Friday.  About how
long should I allow for my visit there?

Tomorrow will be 1 week in London, so far cell almost worthless (thanks
loads o2), PDA used a little, before flight, and in hotel, but nothing
around town or waiting on a bus etc., just too much other stuff to do.
Laptop also not used much, but mostly due to lack of hotspots. Twice ...

I bought a nice triband phone before leaving the US, and also bought a
UK o2 sim so I could hit the ground running and give people a number to
reach me at.
Nothing but a mess.

Anyone know what route easyJet take from Liverpool to Berlin ?  I'm
going on Friday morning and I'm just wondering what I'm likley to be
flying over !

We're going to be driving to Northern Brittany and are looking for a picnic
spot. Somewhere where we can have lunch and let the kids run loose for a
couple of hours.
From a map the area around Jugon Les Lacs (On the N176-E401 just beyond

Can anyone please tell me what Cefalu, Sicily is like?  Thanks.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2313090,00.html
. . . but you just try getting drinks onboard the 'Ryanair of the M6'
By Alan Hamilton
IF TERRORISTS wanted to cause maximum disruption to our way of life,

Just as the USA did immediately after 9/11, the UK is overreacting.
They have banned contact lens solutions.  Any contact wearer might
have trouble during the flight, and pouring a few drops of water from
an airline-supplied bottle of water might prove problematic.  Anyone