SPAIN
Spain, a country of 37.5 million people, sees forty million visitors, mostly other Europeans, each year who contribute $6.5 billion to the Spanish economy. There is more than enough …
Category: Travel
Madrid Map
SAFETY AND SECURITY PERSONAL SAFETY EXPLORING. Respecting local customs (in many cases, dressing more conserva tively) may placate would-be hecklers. Familiarize yourself with your surround ings before setting out. …
A LIFE TRAVEL PROFILE
Business travel aside, a life travel profile for a middle-class American reflects discretionary time available, money, age, and desire for change. As children, people go where their parents go. …
MAJOR AIRPORTS TRAFFIC FIGURES
Airport traffic statistics suggest the nodal points of travel, the air travel transit points, and where the travel action is taking place. Here are the passenger traffic figures for …
Travel to Scandinavia
Denmark proper and the Faeroe Islands together are slightly smaller than Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Greenland, largest island in the world (857,159 sq. mi.), is part of Denmark …
AVOIDANCE OF POOR COUNTRIES
Ironically some of the countries that desperately need visitor money get little because of their poverty. These include most of the Black African nations and most of Asia. Bangladesh’s …
THOSE IMPORTANT FOREIGN PHRASES EUROPE
A travel blog should probably include information about how to get into and around various countries. It would be valuable to include foreign language translations of much-used phrases like: …
PLEASURE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS
The world is a supermarket of pleasure travel. Or is it? Subtract the oceans, the seas, and many of the lakes 70 percent of the total. That leaves 30 …
THE BIG INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS
In terms of the numbers involved in international travel Western Europe is the all-out leader. Keeping in mind how easy it is to become an international traveler (crossing a …
Travel to France
More Germans visit France than any other national group and it is little wonder that they are not particulary loved by the French. World War I and II memories …