Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / July 2007

By ANDREW SWALLOW - The Timaru Herald | Saturday, 19 May 2007
Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time,
meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury
Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.

Lurking for awhile, and found the "living abroad" thread quite interesting.
I have a question for those that have done it, and that is how did you do
it?   Did you move as a result of a transfer in your current job, did you
find a job before you went over, did you know people there? ...

They're off!
Watch this if your TV supplier has it.
Interesting shots of London this am.

Just wanted to share my experience from recent visit to London (I live in
the US).
I used Check Card with Visa logo from Commerce Bank. I have "free" checking
account with them. Keep in mind that if at any day during your billing cycle

http://www.flandersnews.be/cm/flandersnews.be/News/0070704_Verviers
Dinner guest finds bodies in deepfreeze
Wed 04/07/07 - A dinner guest was in severe shock last night after she
discovered two bodies in a deepfreeze. The incident happened in

A friend and I are planning to meet in Heathrow and travel to Bath in
September for a Sat-Mon  Jane Austen pilgrimage before returning to
London.
Last week I practised getting train tickets from Paddington to Bath on

I am trying to remember the name of a hotel up on the castle hill in
Budapest.  It is in a former government ministry building adjacent to Saint
Matthias Church and the Hilton. Can you help? Thanks in advance.

Any personal recommendations for lakeside hotels (any low/medium grade) in
Malcesine, Lake Garda?
Many thanks.
Surreyman

http://www.flandersnews.be/cm/flandersnews.be/News/070703_railteam
High speed train companies join forces
Tue 03/07/07 - Belgium's publicly owned railway company, the NMBS, has
joined six other European rail companies in order to improve the way

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/travel/08hours.html
July 8, 2007
36 Hours in Brussels
By DAN BILEFSKY

I will be travelling from Paris to Geneva shortly, and intend to spend
a
week or so in Switzerland before leaving to Germany. Can anybody
recommend

This is mind boggling!
--Jean
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

is venice an expensive place to visit -- gondola rides, eating out Etc
is it a generally clean city
are the people there friendly
are there many interesting coach tours to book on

Having booked our flights (time of holiday) and our hire-car on the
basis of feedback to earlier postings, I now seek advice re B&Bs. I
last visited Ireland back in the seventies; and have nothing but
wonderful memories. On that occasion my wife and I stayed at B&Bs all