Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / July 2007

From: The Reid <mikereidclothing@freedomnames.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Top Gear North Pole
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:18:52 +0100

Welcome Pal is a new non-commercial project and gives a good chance to
find a free accommodation for travelers to Europe and elsewhere!
The site is the most right place for this dream to come true! There
are already some European members there.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290267,00.html
Flooding Throughout Britain Traps Hundreds
Saturday,  July 21, 2007
Associated Press

Weather forecasters the Met Office had severe weather warnings in
place across a thick band of south-eastern and eastern England.
And in Worcestershire, in the badly hit west central of the country,
more than 1,000 people were spending Saturday night in temporary

Just found this fabulous web site that allows you to create REAL
postcards that they print and Air Mail to anywhere in the world for you.
So if you can get access to the internet you can upload 5 images from
your digital camera, memory stick or even your mobile phone, then write

Forget any tourist tickets. Cheapest Is the Half Tax card, Buy at any
station, need a swiss address, Got a friend there, Make one?. Then u
can travel when u want always cheap. No wasted days not travelling &
much cheaper than rail pass. Chus 150ChF  1 Year Validity. Use it when

I wil be travelling to Belgium (primarily the Flanders region) in a
few months and was wondering if there is a good guide to learn some
Flemish before I get there.  I know Flemish is closely related to
Dutch so would a Dutch guide be all I needed?  I am aware that most of

This may sound like a silly request but I'm looking for the name of a
pottery shop in Sarlat. It's the one right next to the bronze geese. The
name would be great, a phone number / e-mail address / web site would be
even better. I need to replace something we bought there in order ...

What is a reasonable price nowadays for an official taxi for 6 km from a railway
station
to a hotel in St. Petersburg ?
Franz47

Hi there, we're looking at 8 nights, probably 2 in Oslo, 2 in
Copenhagen and 4 in Stockholm (or something like that). Does anyone
have any ideas for nice-ish hotels or B&Bs in those cities that won't
break us? I know that's a bit vague... I'm not sure of rates as of

Near the village of San Angelo in vado a roman villa has been found
the villa is about 900 square metres with 600 square metres of mosaics
Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa

"http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jul/27/climatechange"
Cant believe this is going to happen? BAA are applying for an
injunction against a whole raft of non direct action organisations
from going to Heathrow while an anti climate change camp is in

Hello, I'm a statistician, and I'm putting together a list of
generalizations that are true for at least 99% of people in a given
population group.
Would anyone disagree that at least 99% of EU residents:

Planning a vacation ahead with your entire family but don't have
enough time for the tits and bits of planning, then the vacation
packages come as a great help in such a situation. You always wanted
your vacation to be the best planned with enough time for sight

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252007/gossip/pagesix/aromatic_ardor_pagesix_.htm
AROMATIC ARDOR
July 25, 2007 -- THE French are sure to raise a stink over an upcoming
book that portrays them as unsanitary and smelly. In "The Dirt on