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Pearls Of The Aegean
Tours, January 2013 issue.
8-day / 6-night tour of TURKEY. Highlights: Selçuk Museum in Kuşadası / Greek ruins in Ephesus / Pergamum, capital of the Attalid Kingdom / Troy / in Istanbul, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia. From New York, from $1,799.

Picnicking in Europe — cheap, memorable & fun
A simple picnic on the waterfront can give you a new perspective on the city
Columns, January 2013 issue.
Putting together a picnic

‘Experience Spain’ app
Travel Briefs, January 2013 issue.
Turespaña, the Tourism Institute of Spain, is offering a free app for iPads, iPhones and iPods, “Experience Spain.” Using data gathered from Minube, the social network for travelers (with 450,000 members), the app includes information about 350 destinations and includes maps, 800 photos and 950 e

Attend Oxford
Travel Briefs, January 2013 issue.
You can take a one-week residential course at Christ Church, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

Lanzarote webguide
Travel Briefs, January 2013 issue.
Lanzarote, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, is located 80 miles west of Morocco’s southern border with West Sahara.

Derry, UK City of Culture
Travel Briefs, January 2013 issue.
The UK’s first designated City of Culture is Derry, Northern Ireland, with more than 266 events scheduled in 2013, including sports, dance, theater, art, film, storytelling and historical reenactments. Most are free.

Hungarian cowboys
Travelers' Intercom, January 2013 issue.

Stieg Larsson sites, Sweden
Travel Briefs, January 2013 issue.
A guided tour of the real-life locations in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest”) is available in Stockholm.

Diggerland, UK
Travel Briefs, January 2013 issue.
In the UK, you can operate or ride construction machinery to dig for “treasure” or get hoisted in the Spindizzy at four Diggerland (phone 0871 22 77 007) adventure parks — located in Strood, Kent; Langley Park, Co.

Chip-and-PIN cards preferred in Netherlands. SE Asia cruise-tour and Siem Reap café. Grindelwald apartment. Laundromat in Harwich.
Report Cards, December 2012 issue.
REPORT ON NETHERLANDS The information about using ATM and credit cards with embedded chips for travel in Europe didn’t register with me before a trip in August-September 2012.