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Wales has relatively good roads. Train service is also good, except on Sundays when nearly everything closes down. All Wales is castle country, most of them built by the …
Many European trains provide the equivalent of our pullman cars, called Wagon-lits. On English trains, compartments similar to Wagon-lits are known as sleepers. A pullman in Britain gets a …
The Soviet Union is a federal union of fifteen constituent republics, partly in Eastern Europe and in Northern and Western Asia, occupying nearly one-sixth of the world’s land surface. …
The BritRail pass, or a special Scottish rail pass, gets you around much of Scotland. Some interesting places like the Dukes of Argyll’s home and the village of Argyll …
A popular way to see Europe is by rental car, often included as part of a travel package. The road planning map is usually courtesy of Auto Europe, a …
Unfortunately, Mexican food, with all the variety and flavor, is also the source of most*’ of the tourista, the intestinal upsets, that half or more North Americans experience while …
Farther south lies the island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde with its Brodick Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Hamilton. As with many castles, this one …
AREA: 243,977 sq. km. (94,200 sq. mi.); slightly smaller than Oregon. CITIES: Capital London (pop. about 6.9 million in 1979). Other cities Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, …