"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Erilar wrote:
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Erilar wrote:
"JohnT" wrote:
"David Horne" wrote in message
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Erilar wrote:

And NEVER to plan to change planes in
Oslo on a Friday afternoon! They make even transfer passengers go through
security again, and the line wound almost out the door!
That's the case for any European transfer flight I've been on...
It is also the case if you are transferring in the USA from an International flight.
perhaps oddly, I haven't done that since 1998.
Nor I, because I've not traveled anywhere since 2003 (and my last couple
of trips were non-stops within the US). Once I began to find walking
difficult, I realized I was spending most of my stay in my hotel room,
watching TV in a foreign tongue. That seemed a rather expensive way to
improve my language skills, especially when the overcrowding and
increasingly strict security measures had made the actual travel less
than enjoyable. (If I want to watch foreign-language TV, we have five
Spanish channels in Phoenix, and I could actually USE an improvement to my Spanish.)
Traveling WITH hotel when you have scenery on both sides cuts down on the
walking 8-)

True, but there are too many "sights" that require walking - museums, zoos, etc.


This is a major reason I don't look at the Viking river cruises. They
require payment for all excursions in advance and after several e-mail
exchanges I got them pinned down to admit these are hiking groups. European
cruise lines let you book individual excusions, which lets be stick to the
ones with wheels. I can walk well enough to enjoy a museum, but getting
there can be too much.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad