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All Aboard » Cities of TGV Est

Columns, February 2008 issue
All Aboard » Cities of TGV Est
Take one glance at the new timetable from Paris’ Gare de l’Est and you see that frequent 199-mph TGV Est trains reach Reims in 45 minutes, Strasbourg in two hours 20 minutes, Nancy in one hour 30 minutes, Metz in one hour 25 minutes and Luxembourg in two hours five minutes. The TGVs have opened ...

All Aboard » More new developments at year’s end

All Aboard, December 2007 issue
All Aboard » More new developments at year’s end
by Jay Brunhouse On Dec. 9, passenger trains will make their first 125-mph runs through Switzerland’s shorter, safer and more productive north-south Lötschberg Base Tunnel between Frutigen and Raron. The CHF30 billion, 8-year construction of the lowest crossing of the Alps, at 2,717 feet, had a grassroots beginning. In the ’70s, Swiss motorists began complaining that multiwheeled trailer ...

All Aboard » TGV Est Premiére

All Aboard, September 2007 issue
All Aboard » TGV Est Premiére
by Jay Brunhouse It is through flat, green, French countryside surrounded by fields of grain that my TGV train really flexed its muscles. Powering ahead, I didn’t feel any curves, and when I encountered slightly rolling hills, raw embankments rose high above my window. The level ride over the new Est européene line was so smooth ...

All Aboard! » European railpass travel

All Aboard, December 2006 issue
Last January’s railpass price increases were very friendly. We won’t know most of the 2007 prices until the first of next year, but you can insure that you won’t have any unpleasant surprises by locking in 2006 prices before year-end. When you buy before the turn of the calendar, you have six months to validate your ...

All Aboard: Germany’s Rhineland Magic

All Aboard, November 2006 issue
Düsseldorf (phone +49 [0] 211/1720 20, www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de), which means “Village on the Düssel River,” is no longer a fishing village on the right bank of the Rhine River where the Düssel joins it. It is one of Germany’s Magic Cities (www.magic.cities.de), a great commercial and administrative center and the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia. To feel the ...

A brief visit to Brugge

Features, November 2006 issue
by Susan Fogwell, Princeton, NJ The accessibility in reaching Brugge, Belgium, via train makes it a fun and delightful day-trip destination. I boarded a train with my husband, John, at Centraal Station in Amsterdam for the 3-hour journey. With a quick change of trains in Antwerp, we were on a comfortable train slicing through flat Belgian ...

The Cruising World » A cruise director for all nations

Columns, August 2006 issue
Frederic Jansen is the tall, handsome, energetic and always upbeat cruise director of the Star Clipper, which sails in the western Mediterranean, the eastern Caribbean and transatlantic. He has delightful manners and a charming sense of humor. I interviewed him in January ’06 on board the vessel, which is one of three tall ships in ...

The Good or Bad Tour Guide

Features, June 2006 issue
At the suggestion of Ellen Jacobson of Centennial, Colorado, we asked readers, “What makes a good guide and why and what makes a bad guide and why?” We threw in the questions “What are some constructive ways to communicate with a guide or help him or her better their performance, deal with a specific expectation ...

Candy and chocolate shops

Features, May 2006 issue
We asked you to tell us about any terrific candy or chocolate treats you have discovered overseas (outside of North America and the Caribbean). Whether a brand-name product or something from a confectionery, we wanted to know specifically where you found it, how much it cost and when you were there. Responses appear below. If you ...

French chambre d’hôte, Le Lot

Accommodations Worldwide, April 2006 issue
My favorite chambre d’hôte in FRANCE is Le Lot (46320 Issepts, France; phone 011 33 [0] 5 65 40 17 61 or e-mail catherineissepts@wanadoo. fr). This is in the Quercy region, just south of the beautiful Dordogne area; Quercy is just as pretty and not as expensive as the Dordogne. Even with the unfavorable exchange ...