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...underpaid group of musicians who played weeknights at la Casa de Amistad (The House of Friendship). The casa was a mansion that had been nationalized to become a cultural institute and was now hosting Puerto Rican socialists on solidarity junkets, Cuban black marketeers and bureaucrats, and the occasional stray tourist...
...maybe, the Italians suspect, not even then. The German tourist board is launching an ad campaign in France, with film clips from Berlin's annual hedonistic Love Parade and the slyly sexy slogan there's so much we can do together. With time, maybe it will work. But right now, there's so much the Germans would rather do in Italy. Along the Rimini coast near Schröder's aborted destination, it's Stefani rather than any German who is persona non grata. Maurizio Melucci, the head of tourism for the city of Rimini, was one of the first...
...that is show business, so maybe I can understand the belly dancers selling out. What really hurt me was seeing some Bedouin Arabs, noble inhabitants of the desert, pushing souvenirs, camel rides and water bottles at the many tourist sites around Cairo. Reading about Bedouins, dreaming about Bedouins, never did I imagine a Bedouin ensnaring me in a camel riding scam. But then there I was, at the Giza pyramids, atop a camel, begging its owner to let me down. The Bedouin who got me up there was telling me that he would only let me down...
...mercifully warm refuge from the icebound expanse was the 117-meter, scientific-cum-tourist ship Akademik Ioffe, with its hot breakfasts and convivial bar. In a place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy, the expedition's kayaking instructor, how long I would survive in the near-freezing water if I fell in without wearing a wet suit. "About six minutes or so," she said...
...Most tourist trips to Antarctica leave from Argentina, but from Asia-Pacific you might want to make your way via Christchurch, New Zealand, where prominent tour operators include Heritage Expeditions, tel: (643) 338 9944, and the Adventure Travel Company, tel: (643) 379 7134. Meanwhile, Adventure Associates, tel: (612) 9389 7466, organizes departures from Tasmania. For a three-week cruise, expect to pay at least $12,000 a head in a triple cabin or $20,000 for a suite. Also bear in mind that reaching Antarctica from Australasia takes about four days, as opposed to two from Argentina...