Europe Road Ways. How We Do It. Two on the Loose. Dan with down travels anywhere.: June 2006

Mapping with World Heritage Sites in mind: BBC, travel sites

Dan at Dalmatian Coast

1. UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A map is here: thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.

You can also find all these United Nations-certified fabulous sites, the established ones and the proposals, for all the countries at whc.unesco.org/en/list/. Most guidebooks also show them. For the British Isles, see www.thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-england.. For Romania, see www.thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-romania. These were not on the earlier site list. Don't know why.

You may want to note where the Heritage sites are on your map ahead of time, but we don't organize a trip around them. That is work.

We went where we wanted, and found later that we saw most along the way anyway. England, Wales and Scotland have their own listings. See www.thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-england.

Jun

Driving Rules : The Rule of Ears; Passing; International Road Signs

Accidents. I see more accidents while driving in the US than I have seen in Europe. I see skilled drivers there: quick, but following different rules of the road. Learn their rules before driving. See www.ideamerge.com/motoeuropa/roadsigns/. Make a cribsheet of each country's speed limits for each kind of road and place.

Rules. They vary. Here is a site for overall driving tips and customs: europeforvisitors.com/europe/planner/blp_driving.

Jun

The Ferry Rule: If you see one, take it

If you see a ferry, you have to take it

Ferry, Croatia; car-packing

This Rule led us to the Hebrides from Skye, and to the Orkney Islands from the John-o'-Groats area in northern Scotland, just beyond the Highlands. See Scotland Road Ways

It saved us from the wild cloverleaf overpasses-underpasses in Germany at Worms (we just got off and drove toward a river and there a ferry was. It let us off at a lovely country area - we were two cars and a motorcycle on that one.

Jun

Bad hair days: Pinking shears

Travel bad hair days

Skip the curlers and clips. Cut your hair with pinking shears before you go. Hang your head over the sink, part it straight down the back as though for braids, and then comb it all forward over your whole face.

Take pinking shears in a steady hand, peek carefully in the mirror, and cut up from in front of your ears, at the bottom, in a diagonal up to - and here you choose - the bridge of your nose, for bangs; or the end of your nose, for not.