SIXT
“Welcome to the world of Sixt” as one of their promotion brochures says which I find to be an interesting come on. But a come on to what? Frankly I had no idea that Sixt is a rental car company and that it has been in business since 1912. Who knew? I also was made […]
INTERHOME
Perhaps you want to take a ski vacation but don’t want the expense of a hotel. You can rent an apartment in a vacation destination of Switzerland or the Tyrol. Interhome to the rescue. In a nutshell, Interhome specializes in renting privately-owned vacation accommodations. It has contracts with 15,000 property owners in 21 counties. For […]
CAVEAT VIATOR…LET THE TRAVELER BEWARE
Thieves in Europe are apparently eagerly awaiting the daily arrival of tourists. After all, it’s a non-ending cash flow for them. I have a friend who travels constantly and is wise to the wiles of thieves. He carries a cheap wallet filled with paper when riding public transportation. The thieves must have been very disappointed […]
AURORA BOREALIS
Finland may be the ticket if you are searching for some place different to visit? Until you visit Finland’s in its “top of the world” location you will have missed the best seat to view the Northern Lights or by its traditional name, Aurora Borealis. The chance of seeing this weather phenomena north of the […]
THE FOLLIES
You have to see it to believe it. Show girls and show guys, all over the age of 50, with most over the age of sixty. The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies began in 1992 and is still going strong when we were privileged to view its 20th Year Anniversary show in 2011. Over the years, […]
Aviation Heroism Award
A most prestigious award was given at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC I was privileged to be present when the Laureate Heroism Award was presented to Capt. Daniel Aufdenblatten, pilot of Air Zermatt and Richard Lehner, mountain guide from Zermatt, Switzerland. These two men performed a record breaking aerial rescue of 3 Spanish mountain […]
Bottles And Breasts
By Craig Altschul Look, whoever said “getting there is half the fun” never flew there. It’s not half the fun. It’s no fun at all Maybe it was fun in the days of the Pan Am Clippers or when First Class meant more than a hot, sloppy towel and a dry turkey wrap. There was […]
Follow The New Rules
By Craig Altschul I promised to tell you about going to Vienna sans skis in the dead of winter or the heat of Christmas season however one likes to describe it. But, I lied. It will have to wait until next time. I have a few more airline travel gripes to share. I’ll bet you […]
Wien In Winter
By Craig Altschul I found a neat trick to keep Peggi’s credit card in her purse as while strolling the Kartnerstrasse in Vienna. OK, so it wasn’t intentional, but it was more than effective. We went to Vienna for Christmas. This column is a bit late, but not too late for you to plan for […]
A Bad Day On the Beach
By Craig Altschul My friend, the late irascible ski writer I. William Berry, hated to fly. To him, being aboard a silver bullet in the sky was tantamount to being shot from cannon. Hated it. Ski Magazine insisted that he do a feature story on skiing in the Alps. After all, his editors figured, he’d trashed […]
