Category: Vacations
The bus ($4) goes to the East Side Airlines Terminal at First Avenue and 37th Street (tel. 697-3374). Buses run frequently, about every 20 minutes. From the East Side …
TELEPHONES. The telephone system in the U. S. is privately run and reliable. The New York Telephone Company, part of the Bell System, has public phone booths (boxes) on …
WATER. New York water is perfectly safe to drink. You’ll inevitably receive a glass of it when you sit down in a restaurant. Club soda (fizzy water) is used …
The Italians are one of the most expressive of people, with gestures, eyes and body language. All this gives talking about even things like the weather dramatic quality. Another …
Purse-snatching is an old Italian custom. One story has it that in 1932 excavators of ancient Herculaneum found two perfectly preserved bodies. One, apparently a patrician, lay on his …
Sardinia, second largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily, has mostly clean water touching its many miles of beaches. Sardinia presents a range of tourist accommodations, from inexpensive to …
Visitors to Italy are almost always taken with the abundance of cafes, pastry shops, and restaurants, many with alfresco seating. Italian cookery is justly famous. It was the fourteen-year-old …
Polenta (corn meal) is popular in Northern Italy. Rice (risotto) is used widely, as is sausage, especially mortadella. Bologna is known for its mortadella, its special thick pork sausage, …