Posted by admin on January 31, 2007 under Prague's Travel and Accommodation News | 
Visit thrilling ice hockey play-off matches in one of Prague’s ice-hockey arenas: last Czech Champion HC Sparta Prague - T-Mobile Arena with capacity of 14000 visitors and HC Slavia Prague - Sazka Arena, the most modern multifunctional hall in Europe with capacity of 17000 visitors.
HC Sparta and HC Slavia, two professional ice-hockey teams of Prague, are currently among the best in the Czech Republic - with Sparta beating Slavia in the playoff finals last season to win the National Championship…
Czech Republic is multiple World Hockey Championship winner and Olympic winner (Winter Olympic Games Nagano 1998). And the Czech National League is one of the bests in Europe.
Important note: it’s highly recommended to pre-book ticket with us in advance as the matches can be sold out quickly. For rates and availability of tickets please contact our agency.
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In keeping with tradition the 62nd season of the Prague Spring International Music Festival will begin in the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague, May 12th, 2007. The programme will comprise, as is also the tradition, Bedøich Smetana’s Má Vlast (My Country) cycle of symphonic poems. It will be performed by the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of its Chief Conductor Zdenìk Mácal.
The 59th Prague Spring International Music Competition will take place from May 7th to May 15th, in the categories of horn and conducting.
In the course of 28 days a total of 46 concerts and 9 theatre performances, as well as 7 concerts as part of the competition, will be presented at 17 venues in Prague and 1 venue outside the city.
The closing concert will take place in Prague’s Municipal House on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007. The Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Genadij Rozhdestvensky will perform compositions by Luká¹ Matou¹ek, Otakar Ostrèil and Antonín Dvoøák.
Posted by admin on January 30, 2007 under One stop travel guide to Paris |
Those environmentally concerned participants of Paris’s conference on global warming may want to add this quote to their collection of writings by the almost extinct breed of environmentally-aware American politicians (Al Gore being the last of the line . . .)
“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture.”
No, this is not a quote by famous ‘tree-hugger’- Al Gore, but a much earlier
tree-hugger - Thomas Jefferson.
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I am happy to see that the National Geographic agrees with me about recommending visiting less well known destinations in Europe. However I would suggest getting a bit more off the beaten track than they mention.  For example instead of subsituting Glasgow for London, I would recommend Dundee or Stirling in Scotland.
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Trains on the main East Coast rail line from Edinburgh to London have been affected by delays and cancellation after a fire on freight train near Edinburgh. British Airways are warning of some disruption to their flights after the proposed strike action was called off. Evidently 140,000 BA passengers had already changed their travel plans. Will this put you off booking with BA in the future?
I just don’t know which is the “best” method of transport in the UK. When I drove from Berwick upon Tweed to Edinburgh last week, at midday. I encountered 4 sets of road works on that 50 mile stretch of the A1, which added around 30 minutes to my journey.
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The World Tourism Organisation has reported a 4.5% increase in global tourism during 2006, a slightly higher rate than anticpated. The International Air Transport Association has also announced that passenger numbers increased by 5.9% in 2006, a lower increase than the 7.6% increase recorded in 2005. Passenger number in Europe grew at 5.3%, slighly below the global average.
I wonder if increases such as these are sustainable in the long tern? I think that if oil prices increase a lot and/or disposable household income drops people will just not have the spare cash for several trips a year. I think there is also the hassle factor associated with air travel that my put some people off flying. It has certainly influenced our travel plans. We have decided to take a short break, where we’ll drive to Norfolk in the UK this month, rather than take a flight to mainland Europe. We thought for a 4 day break, why spend the best part of 2 days on air travel. Have you been evaluating your travel plans recently?
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Wouldn’t you think that serious global warming ‘activists’ would make sure to book their conferences in July? The idea of attending a global warming conference in a snowstorm just doesn’t make much sense.
It would be kind of like going out to rake leaves in December.
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While France and parts of upstate New York have experienced an unseasonably mild December ‘06, in September of ‘05, Iceland recorded its coldest September. In spite of the Sept 2005 fluke, evidence of receding glaciers a little more each year has been noted by Iceland residents.
Le Parisien reports today that Paris will be the ‘environmental’ capital at least for this week. President Jacques Chirac is inaugurating the first conference to be held to discuss ‘une gouvernance ecologique mondiale’. Which might be loosely translated as a worldwide plan for dealing with ecological issues’.
Specifically, the discussion will focus on creating a sort of environmentally focused United Nations. The sujects will range from the recession of glaciers, the rise in sea levels and emissions of gases from fossil fuels and oil.
Thursday the organization Alliance for the Planete is asking people to symbolically turn out their lights for five minutes as a gesture toward conserving energy. ‘Give Earth a Break’.
The Eiffel Tower will be ’sans lumiere’ from 7 :55 pm to 8 pm on Thursday night.
49 percent of French people believe that global warming will be a key issue for mankind during this century.
61 percent of French people responding to a poll said they’d be willing to cut back on using their cars if it would help the environment.
Former U.S. vice-president, Al Gore’s book on global warming has been selling like hotcakes.
This article finishes off “It’s a question of will - political will”
« Une question de volontГ© »
Posted by admin on January 29, 2007 under One stop travel guide to Paris |
In the previous post ‘Transport Yourself’ I mentioned that Gotan Project would be inaugurating Le Cargo concert hall in Caen on February 1st, but if you can’t get to Caen, Gotan Project will be back in Paris for a performance on October 5 that will wind up their world tour.
They begin in Luxembourg on June 10 and they’ll be in Los Angeles in August. You can read more about their new CD Lunatico which was released April 10 in UK and April 11 in the US at
www.worldmusiccentral.org. Or better yet you can check out the their music video at
www.gotanproject.com. Be sure to read Rick White’s comment about the video and check out his photo using the same technique for his photo Red Pots.
This truly international group has Parisian Philippe Cohen Solal, Swiss-born Christophe H. Muller, and Argentinian (Buenos Aires) Eduardo Makaroff and more artists you can read about at worldmusiccentral.org
Gotan Project
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As promised, here’s Rick White’s photo: “Red Pots” which he describes in his comment for the post “Transport Yourself” Gotan Project.
(c) Rick E. White
Although Rick is geographically speaking a Californian, wouldn’t you say his Red Pots has a Parisian aesthetic? You can check out more of his photos at
www.auspcioustraveler.com/
