I'm planning my route down for a months visit in July.
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I logged on this morning to my local webcam, to look at the snow on the ski slopes.
Thu, 01/05/2012 - 04:47
Loved the note about changing the locks!
Wed, 09/21/2011 - 09:20
Mon, 07/25/2011 - 05:21
For many years now I have used the likes of 'mappy', 'via michelin' etc for calculating different routes down to Italy - for us its a part of our holiday, so we don't always want to take the quickest/shortest route down. We prefer to vary the rou
Wed, 06/01/2011 - 09:25
Today I received an email from the Swiss Travel Centre. The relevant portion is;- "The GBP price for a Vignette will increase from 01 June 2011 and we wanted to give you the opportunity to purchase this years’ Vignette before the pric
Mon, 05/23/2011 - 09:45
I've just driven down and back for a [much too] short holiday, and feel that an update on how fuel prices look on the way down would be useful to fellow travellers The following is a good site for seeing what prices have been like Â
Mon, 04/04/2011 - 05:02
P&O have introduced a new ferry on the Dover - Calais route - its called the Spirit of Britain. They seem to have a special offer on at the moment [on this ship only] I've just booked a return crossing [car + 2] for £60 - significantly less th
Sat, 01/29/2011 - 06:08
Does Tomato soup exist in Italy? We were feeling a bit under the weather when we went out to Italy 2 weeks ago. As part of the R&R process, I fancied some soup, and looked around the supermarket. There were lots of different soups, but I rea
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 08:29
The route/timings for next years Giro d'Italia have been posted  My son rang me up to inform me that the route passes about 100m away from
Sat, 11/06/2010 - 07:04
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You can get 'travel adaptors' in plenty of shops in the UK, including at airports and ferry ports. However, they are only rated at about 3.5 to 7 amps [depending on type] so you can't use them for stuff like kettles and some high tech UK hair dryers. The plugs also can warm up quite a lot when in useI keep a couple of adaptors for travelling to/from my holiday place in italy - but as a permanent solution I have a couple of UK '4-way' extension leads at the house, that I have cut the UK plug off of, and fitted an ½ûÂþÌìÌà one instead.
This site has photos of many european snakes go to the "Index (Common)" page and look in the index for 'Snakes' - where the many European ones are listed. If you click on the name, the pictures pop up, and underneath the last picture it gives the snake's distribution
what did the skin look like? Any picture?
For me - the 'New Activity' button does not pick up all new and amended posts - but the 'mark all as read' button does 'knock them all out' - including those not recognised by the New Activity button posts So I have to check carefully to see what I would be missing by hitting the 'Mark all ...' button
If you log on to the Accor website -   You get a great range of hotels, from  below Formula 1 up to higher than Mercure, and a pretty good interactive map to sort out your options
The second link in my original posting - the link that referred to an overnight stop in Belguim should have been  ,      [which refers to Castel les Sorbieres, not a repeat of the Nancy hotel - ]l As to cost - the benefit of the Formula 1 chain is cheap and cheerful - however, as I like to make the journey a part of the holiday, [and not a mad dash to/from the channel], I prefer to pay the extra and get a good hotel with good food [both the stops I quote above easily do that]
"As Adriatica says, pop it in the freezer (it won't freeze) "  Careful - if its a commercial limoncello, the alcoholic content probably won't be high enough to prevent freezing
"....but where do you get the litre of 90 percent proof alcohol? I don't see it on the shelves of the local shops"Â Try the larger supermarkets - thats where we got ours
"Can someone tell me that once opened, how long will it keep in the fridge?" As long as it takes you to drink it.          ...................................... [It won't go 'off']