The eighth annual International Garden Show Hamburg is taking place April 26-Oct. 13, 2013, on a 200-acre site in Wilhelmsburg, a 10-minute train ride from Hamburg*, Germany.
Free guided walking tours are now being offered in Barcelona by Sandemans New Europe (phone +49 0 30 510 500 30). Every day, rain or shine, 3-hour tours with up to, perhaps, 25 people depart at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Good luck sometimes comes wrapped in what appears to be misfortune. When planning, on short notice, for a September '12 trip to Italy, my wife, Paula, and I were unable to find accommodations that both fit our schedule and met our list of desired features. Looking farther afield, we found excellent lodgings in Levanto, an adjacent town to the northwest.
On the day we planned to visit Mont-St-Michel it was rainy, so we headed for a nearby town described in our Michelin guidebook, Villedieu-les-Poeles. In this town, where pots and pans have been made since the 12th century, the bell foundry has been casting and exporting bells for over 200 years.
A friend and I booked the 15-day tour “Turkish Delight,” April 21-May 5, 2012, with Pacha Tours and got a great price, $1,490 per person, not including airfare. I asked the Pacha agent to book my airfare.
