Europe

The location of the subject of November’s photo is in Valencia, Spain.

In the Norfolk town of Deepdale, visitors can rent bikes for exploring the countryside. Deepdale Bike Hire (Deepdale Farm Cottages, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk PE31 8DD, United Kingdom; phone 07747 618424) is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Bike rental costs £16 for seven hours or £10 (near $16) for three hours. Includes helmet, pump, lock, repair kit and self-guided routes.

The silent-running, 2-seat Roadster 2.5 Tesla accelerates from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds, and the one-day use of this electric sports car can be arranged with a stay at La Resérve Genève Hotel & Spa (301, route de Lausanne, 1293 Bellevue, Geneva, Switzerland; phone +41 22 959 59 02, fax 59 60).

Available year-round to adults over 25, the “Tesla Drive” package includes daily breakfast and spa access. A minimum stay of two nights is required, as is a refundable deposit of CHF8,000 (near $8,345).

More than 300 farms participate in the program Stay on a Farm in Sweden (Bo på Lantgård medlemsservice, Box 865, SE301 18 Halmstad, Sweden; phone +46 0 35 12 78 70), offering farmstays of varying lengths.

On the online directory, farms are rated one to five “corn ears,” with five ears being “first-class” accommodations. Prices generally run SEK350-SEK550 (near $50-$80) per person per night. Example — a B&B stay at an organic farm in Sköllungen costs SEK495 ($70) per person per night, double occupancy.

Visitors to London can ascend a walkway over the roof of the O2 (Peninsula Square, London; phone +44 161 385 3211), formerly called the Millennium Dome. (The shell was completely redesigned; only the roof was kept.)

The climbing surface is made of a tensile fabric and leads to a platform 52 meters (170 feet) above the ground at the top of the structure, with views of the Thames Barrier, Olympic Park and Canary Wharf.

Britain’s only working funicular, the Great Orme Tramway (Victoria Station, Church Walks, Llandudno, Wales, LL30 2NB, U.K.; phone 01492 577877), turned 110 on July 31, 2012.

The tramway, using its original tramcars (restored), climbs up a mile-long track in Llandudno, Wales, to the summit of Great Orme (679 feet), Britain’s highest coastal outcropping. At the Halfway Station, visitors can learn about the tramway’s history and change to a second set of trams for the final climb to the summit.

Košice, Slovakia, and Marseille, France, are the European Capitals of Culture for 2013.

Planned events in music, drama, art, history and literature in Košice are listed at www.kosice2013.sk.

In Europe, fuel prices are reported to have risen more than 30% over those of 2011. Rising oil costs and additional fuel taxes applied by revenue-strapped governments are attributed as the cause. In September 2012, prices for unleaded petrol ranged from a low in Romania of (an equivalent) $1.64 per liter ($6.21 per gallon) to a high in Norway of $2.63 per liter ($9.95 per gallon). Diesel fuel ran even higher. Visit www.theaa.com and click on “Driving,” then “Latest Fuel Prices.”