Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / November 2006

Just to check, are there laws about how people with canes are supposed to
travel in Germany?  Europeans like to make laws on everything, so I was just
checking.  As far as I know, Germany is a civilized country, so kids aren't
going to steal canes and think it's funny or ...

I will be in Holland for ten days. Is there a place in Amsterdam that I
can buy SIM card for use in my Mobile phone while in Holland. I will be
travelling from US. Thanks.

7adults and a 2 year old would like to spend two weeks in Tuscany. We
will likely rent a villa. Any suggestions about where we should rent,
any recommendations for a rental agency, places we should see, airport,
car rental, etc

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The decision by Iraq's Special Tribunal to convict Saddam Hussein of

In the UK, do caravan parks have what we Aussies call on-site vans?
i.e. Ones that are permanently at the park and let out to visitors. If
so, what is a rough ball-park figure for the nightly cost?
Thanks.

My wife and I are planning another trip to Cornwall in the spring. We have
found numerous ads for attractive-looking cottages and flats on the web page
for Helpful Holidays (www.helpfulholidays.com). Has anyone used this
company? Are they reliable?

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Can anyone give me suggestions as to where to stay and what to do.  I
have only one week.  I'd like to see as much as possible, but not so
that I ruin it all by trying to see everything.
If someone had a successful trip and would care to give me the details,

On a trip to Greece in October of 2006 my wife and I arrived in Athens
with old fashioned paper Olympic Airlines tickets (purchased on the
Internet) for a trip to and from Santorini.  I made a special effort to
seek out the Olympic Airlines office in Athens to confirm our

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I am in Los Angeles at the moment, and do not have the opportunity to

fyi, turns out I can make a safe connection through Frankfurt if the
Frankfurt/Istabul legs are on Lufthansa.  I have to leave Istabul at
6am but that's OK.  I should've thought of this before, since that's
how I came home once before back in 2002.  So I'm gong to lay in my

For visitors to Paris,  hotel visits of a doctor
can be arranged by calling Urgences médicaux
0153-94-94-94.  Visits run 40 euros during the
weekdays, 50 at night and weekends.  They will

Howdy folks,
Wifey and I are headed to London and Paris on the Globus 8 day trip
this coming spring.
We're zeroing in on the end of April - first of May.  Is this a good

We are looking for Belgian, Dutch, American and Latvian people who are
living abroad (other than their own country).
At the moment we are testing a phone service and we are looking for
testers who are interested in free

I'm planning a month long stay in Krakow next year. I noticed it got in the
top 10 cities in Europe for lots of postings on this site. I'm interested to
hear about any social problems in the city and Poland generally as the
migrants from Poland have a certain reputation in the UK ...