Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday february 29, 1964 babylonians used Asphalt to Cement stones in their Homes. My Tours. Europe at european prices Low cost1 coach Tours from 15 to 57 Days budget accommodation temporary employment a must for the budget minded Why Over visitors to Europe have joined the our ask for travel folder Sec your travel agent or Contact the overseas visitors club Falk Tours Ltd. . Box 1319. Winnipeg 1. Man. Ii a a a a a a a a a a a a a ancient China and Independent Tours peking Kong Hong 12, Shanghai 21 Day tour from Vancouver departures july August 31, october 8. Phone or write o Brien travel Polo Park up 4-5488 downtown we 2-5266 1 i i a 0 a a i i e a a 1 a some Pitfalls in Germany to be avoided and Austria by Terence Prittie London special the guardian although it is usual to suggest to the Reader where he should go for his Holiday and what he should do with his time i propose first to suggest one or two of the Pitfalls which will await him in Germany and Austria. My own experience of holi Days is that frustrations Are inevitable but there is no reason Why they should not be reduced to a minimum. Warning number one con Cerns the German autobahn not the Salzburg to Vienna one in keep off the German autobahn at Rush hours least its busiest which Are Dort Mund Bonn Frankfurt Heid Elberg and Hamburg Lubeck. There Are morning and evening Peak hours and worse still an end of week Encl Peak hour from 6 to 10 . Sundays. Warning number two con Cerns the or Road houses on the German autobahn and their gasoline pumps. If one of these Road houses is reasonably empty you will get a Quick but not a Good meal there. From Midsummer Onward you May do better to turn off the autobahn and make for the nearest Small town. You will save time and Money in this Way and get a hotter meal. At the height of the Holiday season it sometimes also pays to turn off the autobahn for gasoline. Warning number three con Cerns the Large towns of Ger lowest air fares Ever to Europe from april 1st enquire p. Lawson travel Ltd. 247 notre Daem ave. We 2-8424 share May s enchantment in enjoy a wider Choice of accommodation and rates throughout Europe. Carinthia Carmania Franconia 4 sailings in May from Montreal and 24 More in 64. Take your Choice of Greenock Liverpool or Courtr also regular sailings from new York by the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. See your travel agent pay later if you wish 2o1 Toronto Dominion Bank bldg. 215 Portage Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba Tol we 3-4206 getting there is half the fun travel service at its Best. Let Cana Dian National Reserve your rail and steamship accommodations and Han dle ail other travel arrangements. 250 lbs. Free baggage to backside. Call your in agent at we 6-2261, we 6-2361 Many but not of Austria. Big German hotels have mostly been built since the War since any town of Over inhabitants was a target for. Allied bombs. These modern hotels Are mostly dreary places and their prices Are considerably higher than those of smaller places. Use the latter if you want local atmosphere and Good value for your Money. Sigh see in Large German Lowns by All Means but Don t As a Rule stay there. Exceptions Are Munich Berlin Hamburg. Large towns in Austria Are. Not. Included in this warning and Vienna is of course enchanting. But the Motorist would do Well to stay the night outside the Vienna ring and penetrate to the City Centre on foot. Otherwise he will waste a great Deal of his time Park ing his car and wondering if he would not be better off Back in London. Berlin be cause of its postwar drop in population is one of the easiest towns in the world in which to Park a car. Warning number four con Cerns the bavarian Alps. There Are plenty of Lovely places in them but Don t move about them at summer weekends. It is More stultifying to be in a three mile queue of cars within sight of Mountain peaks than on Kensington High Street easy tip an easy tip spend a weekend in Munich and week Days in the bavarian Alps. Incidentally the autobahn crossing Point from Bavaria to Austria at Salzburg can produce the longest queues of cars in Europe. A final warning about food. Don t expect great variety in Germany although you will get More of it in Austria. Ask if there is any local dish which the Hotelier can re commend. Plenty of country areas specialize in Venison wild boar steaks or some other form of game. Bavaria has dumplings Good soups and the Best Beer in Germany they serve it there appropriately in Stone tankards whereas the North germans have a maddening habit of pouring their Beer into Quarter pint stemmed Austria has its Wien Erschnig its Fine pastries and in Vienna wealth of bal Kan restaurants. One cannot begin to cover desirable Holiday areas in a single Short article in Ger Many and Austria. The Fol lowing Are random suggestions if you want to drink Ger Man or austrian wine drink it where it is grown. In the austrian Tirol drink mainly reds but Whites in Baden South of Vienna in Germany i recommend three wine growing areas in particular. They Are the so called Wie Strasse running South from Durkheim to Landau the Valley of the Moselle but particularly the stretch from Trier to Zeltinger and the franconian vineyards round Wurzburg and to the South East round Ephofen. Drinking wines these areas do not suffer from tha Rush and noise of the Rhine Valley and they grow wonderful wines All White. Drink the open wines in carafe at lunch time but treat yourself to something better in the eve Ning. If you want the grandeur of mountains go to the Tirol or austrian Carinthia. The Val Ley of the inn is Busy Al though Innsbruck is Worth seeing. But there is a Beautiful Mountain Road from Blu Denz South East to farther Nen and Altur and another from stuben North to and on to Reutter. Austria is full of Kirvely Val Leys and those who want lakes As Well hardly do better than Visi. The Mil stat Ter and lakes in Carinthia. The German lakes Are crowded by comparison but 1 like the North Western end of Constance and the South Eastern Shore of Ammer see near Munich. Cheapest Corner the cheapest Corner of Germany is the Eay Rische Wald along the czech Bor Der and there is plenty of Charm about the Hills be tween Fulda and Coburg and Between Kassel and the East German Frontier the fairy tale country of the Brothers Grimm. Central Austria must be full of quiet Corners with Beautiful scenery and comparatively inexpensive Board and lodging. The North German Plain has nothing much to offer. Nor has the German coast unless you want to Bathe naked on the dunes of Kam pen on the Island of Sylt or Gamble in the Casino at the Baltic trave Munde. The germans have done the Best they can with their seashore but most of it is mud and the remainder is wildly overcrowded by a native population of 55 million. Not cheap a final note on Money. Ger Many is not cheap but Ger Man hoteliers Are notoriously honest. You will not need to count your change the Way Yoti have to in Paris or the Riviera. Outside the big cities you can live reasonably. Austria is on the whole around 10 per cent cheaper than Germany and Vienna has some of the Best inexpensive food in Europe. The trains in both countries Are punctual and comfortable but you May find the Cost of a meal in a restaurant car exorbitant. The weather from an Atlantic to a Central eur Opean climate is. The main Valley. To the South of it you will fare better in summer than anywhere in these is lands. Copyright 1964 by arrangement with the guardian Manchester feels Russia May be lagging economically pointing to electrical consumption As a Mirror of a nation s dynamism and Standard of Liv a past president of the Canadian electrical manufacturers association indicated Friday that Russia May be lagging in economic Progress. J. W. President of Tri Angle conduit and Cable Canada Ltd., Scarborough ont., told the Manitoba electrical Confer ence and Trade show at the Royal Alexandra hotel that rus Sia has decided to scale Down by kilowatts a huge Hydro electric project at Bratsk because the Power is not needed. In addition he said there were other reports that Hydro projects in Siberia Are being slowed Down and can be viewed As a visible sign of retrenchment because of a squeeze on that country s re while we May not want to gloat Over the russians predict he there will apparently be some delay in the arrival of the Day when Premier Khrushchev can fulfil his fam Ous economic threat to the West Ern world we will Bury you some 365 delegates have gathered for the two Day Confer ence and Trade show sponsored by the electrical contractors association of Manitoba and Visi tors Are present from Ontario to British Columbia. They heard or. Kerr say that in contrast to Russia Power development in Canada is encouraging. All 10 provinces have Power developments under Way which will materially increase the availability of Power in 1964 and beyond he said. Naturally Many eyes Are in Manitoba for its recent action in joining up with the mid Western states in the mid continent area Power program in what May be the forerunner of a Continental Grid system. And just this week it was announced that Canada leads the world in the develop ment of economic Long distance transmission of electrical pow said or. Kerr. London round trip Paris round trip round trip round trip round trip round trip round trip Vienna round trip Dusseldorf round trip round trip Zurich round trip v round trip what a feast Tea s 64 fares and Tours offer you All Europe where do you want to go this summer Athens Madrid Belgrade Venice Dubrovnik the feast is endless the fares dramatically reduced and Tea s destination cities Are gateways to the world s exotic travel spots take a Tea 64 tour. The most popular Way to see All Europe. 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