When we were in Paris for a week in early April ’04, we wanted to tour the D-Day battlefields in one day. We were staying at the Marriott on the Champs-Élysées, and tours from the hotel would be expensive, so I went online before we left and found Battlebus Tours under a “D-Day” search.
South Korean and North Korean officials have agreed to open two cross-border roads (the Seoul-Sinuiju road and one in the east) and to make test runs on the linked sections of two railways no later than October 2004.
They also are working on a joint industrial park project, with garment plants and other labor-intensive businesses, to be run by the South Koreans.
North Korea will be provided with a loan of 400,000 tons of rice “out of brotherly love and the principle of mutual help.”
My wife and I took a trip to Europe in May ’04. Here are some tips for travelers to Prague.
I was sorry to read, in the subscriber’s letter “China Countryside Tips” (June ’12, pg. 14), that her tour company abandoned her partway through her trip. While I sympathize with her situation, I can’t agree with her conclusion that you should not travel in China without a guide or a Mandarin-speaking companion or that you should stay only in high-end hotels.
TripAdvisor has partnered with Rail Europe and other rail networks in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, so now travelers can use TripAdvisor’s “Flights” search engine to compare plane trips against train trips when researching fares for particular routes.
by Jay Brunhouse
• The restaurant Karpatia Etterem es Sovozo (Inboda Ferencier Tere 7-8, Budapest, Hungary; phone 0036-1-317-3596) is located in Buda, not far from the Danube. This elegant, old restaurant has it all: a variety of excellent food plus ambiance, music and reasonable prices (at least, for Americans and Brits).
The cost for dinner for five people, including wine, dessert and tip, was 29,200 florints (about $26) per person in April ’04.
by Jonathan Hayes; Corvallis, OR
My wife, Susan, had signed up for a month-long German-language immersion course in Kassel, Germany, so I decided to join her after the course was over. Instead of flying directly to Germany, however, I planned to fly to Vladivostok, on the Pacific coast of Russia, and catch a train from there.
by Cecilia Morrissey, Port Townsend, Wa.
by Paula Prindle, Orient, OH
Question: What could be better than cruising through southern France?
Answer: Absolutely nothing!