Category: Vacations
For a change from the perennial shrimp (prawn) cocktail, try soft shell crabs (in spring or summer). You can eat almost every morsel of those crabs caught after they’ve …
Elsewhere, if you insist, you will be given a slice of Swiss or Dutch cheese. Vermont cheddar is worth trying for its robust flavour. A recent upsurge in the …
A trip to New York for any youngster would be incomplete without a visit to the city’s most famous toy emporium, F.A.O. Schwarz (see p. 79). And of course, …
From the United Kingdom and Eire BY AIR: Because of the complexity and variability of the many new fares, you need the advice of an informed travel agent well …
TIME and DATES. The continental U.S.A. has a total of four time zones; New York City is on Eastern Standard Time. In summer (between April and October) Daylight Savings …
Petrodvorets, twenty miles west of Leningrad, is Peter’s version of Versailles. The palace has twenty-five hundred acres of formal gardens running down to the Gulf of Finland. It is …
Class divisions in a classless society become immediately apparent. Ranking bureaucrats, research scientists, and military are eligible for the best of everything dachas (country vacation homes), vacations, travel, clothing, …
Nearly all visitors to the Soviet Union go to Moscow (Moskva), the heart of the government and a city with about the same population as New York City. Moscow …