August 2004

Among new products in Magellan’s summer 2004 travel supplies catalog is “Buzz Off” Insect Shield clothing. It repels mosquitoes, ticks and other biting insects without lotion or spray; offers 30+ SPF sun protection, and wicks moisture away from skin for comfort. The protectant lasts through 25 or more machine washings.

Contact Magellan’s, 110 W. Sola St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3007; call 800/962-4943 or visit www.magellans.com.

Monkey Mia in Western Australia is known as the place where dolphins approach the shore to fraternize with the crowds, but there are other attractions in the area.

The delta of the Geumgang River is one of Korea’s main breeding grounds for migratory birds. Just opened there in the Seongdeok-ri, Seongsan-myeon, Gunsan-si, area is the Geumgang Migratory Bird Observatory (phone 82-63450-6273).

It has observatories on the ninth and 11th floors; a revolving restaurant on the 10th floor; lectures and information on birds in the basement; year-round displays plus a screening room on the first floor; special exhibits on the second floor, and cultural events on the third.

The Danish Architecture Center’s new webguide helps you plan your own architectural walking tours through Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus and Aalborg. There are 14 tours in all. Visit www.dac.dk/guide, choose the ones you like, print them out and you’re ready to go!

For info on Denmark, call the Danish Tourist Board at 212/885-9700 or visit www.visitdenmark.com.

The guidebook “Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest” helps visitors to London seek out the city’s best time-capsule pubs. Only 133 make it onto the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) regional inventory for their important historic interiors. The 48-page guide, with photographs, costs £3.50. Visit www.camra.org.uk.

For some of its Upper Class passengers traveling to and from London’s Heathrow airport, Virgin Atlantic in late summer 2004 plans to start offering Gibbs Aquada amphibious limo service.

The man who coined the word “dinosaur,” Sir Richard Owen, campaigned for a “national museum of natural wonders.” Two hundred years after his birth, this founder of the Natural History Museum is being celebrated in London with a special display and self-guided trail (through Oct. 24, 2004).

Avis, through their “Stay in Touch” program in Europe, offers car renters the newest global cell phones free for the first seven days.

For a limited time, Hyatt resort properties in Puerto Rico, Aruba and Grand Cayman are offering an all-inclusive food-and-beverage option.