Europe Road Ways. How We Do It. Two on the Loose. Dan with down travels anywhere.: June 2007

Airport tips; Jet lag; Cash stash; Fares

Surviving the Airport Maze

Locating the Airport

Write Out the Name of your Airport

There can be several near your city

Oops. Wrong airport. Spin that wheel! Go back! Go back!

A. Airports

1. Be sure you have directions to the specific airport you need, and by name.

The generic airport plane symbols on the road may lead you to a secondary airport, not the one you wanted. Paris -- multiples. Prague, same.

Worse, the name beside the plane symbol may be another town, and not the name of the airport itself. As at Prague, where even the ticket did not actually name the airport. Get off at the town exit and waste much time. Some places have two airports, each using the plane symbol. Be sure you are following the right one - see Paris. Orly and DeGaulle.

2.

Jun

Mechanics: Cell phones; Travel insurance; GPS

Cell phone optional.

Our system doesn't do reservations anyway.

Travel insurance. Yes.

Take a GPS.

High Tatras, Poland, Slovakia border

Exposure travel. Here we are, in the High Tatras, between Slovakia and Poland.

1. So far, we do not carry cell phones.

We have always found helpful people and like human contact. Too hard to understand accents on phones anyway. We use email at public internet or hotel internet to contact home.

This may backfire.

Jun

Guide to the blog cluster, Europe Road Ways

Outline of Europe Road Ways Blog Cluster

And following people in bronze

See Site indexes now, at Gristmill Sites by Dint

Country road, Poland.

The more years that we take our trips, the more complex our homespun web sites become. Here is the needed road map:

1. The nuts and bolts of our trips are here at Europe Road Ways - How We Do It. We also have a URL at Europe Road Ways on the Web

2. All our photos, comments, link addresses and history are at country blogs.

Jun

2007: Back from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia. Our Domesday Book.

A Preparations Inventory

Our Own Domesday Book of Travel tips

Dan and Travel Night Life, in his trusty travel rain jacket;

Everybody needs an inventory sometime. An early one was The Domesday Book, a land and other inventory commissioned by William the Conqueror in England in 1085. For Domesday Book, see learningcurve.gov.uk/focuson/domesday; or domesdaybook.co.uk.

Jun

Mapping by Music

Follow songs.

Polka band, Czestochowa, Poland

We had no place songs for Poland, and only heard a few polkas. Still, we sang Roll Out The Barrel. This group was playing for a Polish banquet in Czestochowa.

We map by songs, where we can. In Ireland and Scotland, or Italy and Spain, we went to a place because there was a song about it. Then sang it loud while we went. If we couldn't get to it, we sang anyway.