European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Let s go River rafting White water rafting is a popular sport in the Mountain streams of Austria. The Village Ober Wellach in Carinthia offers the adventure this summer. Guests May have a three hour raft ride with picnic for 250 schillings about $21. For information Contact Verk Ehrsam a-9821 Ober Wellach Austria. Tel. 04782-2510.  bed and breakfast from 8.95 pounds about $15 a night and self catering apartments from 35 pounds about $58 a week per person in London these arc among the bargains offered by British universities. More than 50 universities Are included in a brochure of accommodations available this summer at the historic cities of Edinburgh and York Seaside resorts of Aberystwyth and Brighton and Industrial centers of Bradford and Birmingham. At most universities guests can use Campus sports facilities. Some offer study Breaks. Information is available from British universities accommodation consortium University Park Nottingham nc7 2rd, England. Tot add France the signal to Start the tour de France will be sounded in Berlin where More than 200 International professional cycles will gather in front of the . The next Day there will be a 100 Kilometre Street race and a 40 Kilometre team Competition. On july 1, the festival Berlin summer night t dream will premiere. Fourteen Berlin hotels offer special package arrangements for these events with a Choice of three four or five nights including breakfast a City sightseeing tour and admission to the opening philharmonic concert. Cost ranges from a Low of 177 Marks about $98 per person for three nights to a High of 624 Marks about $347 for five nights in a double room. For information Contact Verk Ehrsam Europa Center d-1000 Berlin 30, Germany. Tel. 030 2123. Old danish town Den game by is an open air museum in Arhus Denmark made up of More than 60 old houses rescued from throughout the country. The buildings mostly half timbered contain 40 different crafts workshops. Among them Are a Dye works a Tannery a Bookbinder and soap and Candle makers. The museum is open year round. For details in English Contact Ken Moore danish tourist Board Liaison for nato Postrach 4145, d-3000 Hannover Germany. Tel. 0511 -795278. Rode on Young would be Rock stars Are being offered a Quick course in How to succeed in the music business in England. It is set aug. 9-15 at the University of Salford on the fringes of Manchester Hometown of such bands As the Smiths and simply red. The course costs 159 pounds about $263including accommodation and meals at the University tuition and trips. Tutors will be people involved in the music business. Another summer course at the University aug. 23 29 is school for style covering fashion dress exercise make up and photography. For information Contact Julia Davenport Brown University of Salford Salford is 4wt, England. Country festival country camping Schinder Hannes in the German Hunsuck is having a country festival june 16-21. There will be country music rodeos roast of children s games costume contests and More. Among the entertainers will be the Southern Comfort band from Hahn air base on sunday. The Campground has plenty of space for campers or tents. It is located not far from St. Goar near Florence museums the Vicenza Italy itt office has published a pamphlet about the museums of Florence. It lists the museums opening hours and admission charges for 25 museums. It is available from the itt office in the pm parking lot building 244. Tel. Mil. 634-7455 or Civ. 0444-513379. Above is Botticelli s birth of Venus which is on display in the uffizi gallery. A Hatzfeld Ausbay. For inform Ilion Contact the Camp at Tel. 06746-1674. Campgrounds a new brochure is out listing 34 campgrounds in the South Tirol of Italy. It contains a map showing each one and is free from landsverk Ehrsam Sud Tirol Pfar Platz 11/12,1-39100 Bozen Ledly. Tel. 0471-993808. Weekend rate the hotel chlo terhof at Stein am Rhein Switzerland has a weekend rate. For 139 francs about $93 per person you get three nights Friday evening to monday morning in a four Star hotel with breakfast Buffet and sunday Brunch. The offer is Good until the end of he year a brochure about the hotel is available from hotel chlo terhof ch-8260stein-, in Switzerland. Tel. 054-424242. Note to readers when writing or information to organizations thai have european Economy addresses use your own Economy address rather than v our Apo. It speeds up the process considerably. If you order brochures from tourist offices hotels or travel agents by Pithey Are sent to new York first and then return usually by ship. Maurits Huis museum reopens by Roland de  associated press writer one of Holland s most intimate museums has reopened its doors five years after architects took on the Tricky task of making an architectural Gem into More of a Home for 800 old masters. The two Story Maurits Huis museum in the Hague first opened in 1822 and considered one of the world s richest repositories of 17th-Century dutch paintings was extensively renovated and was officially reopened by Queen Beatrix on june 4. The dutch baroque cube of Grey Sandstone and Brick sits on the shores of the Hof Viver Lake next door to the dutch parliamentary Complex. Built by Soldier statesman and Art Patron Ohan Maurits the mansion dates from the same period As the treasure trove it contains works from such artists As Rembrandt Van Ruisdael Hals and Vermeer. Less a Public building than a Home for paintings including Rembrandt s anatomical lesson and self portrait As an old Man ill 14 of its viewing rooms have seats and benches for he More contemplative aficionado. You could say that on the surface nothing really has changed Here museum director Hans Hoetink said. We be tried to retain the atmosphere from before the renovation what i Call its holiness its human  the modernization program began in 1982 after decades of what Hoetink said was Subtle but general decay. Paintings Are like old people if they catch a draft   climate control equipment was installed he Security system improved and the lighting redesigned. The t4.5-million-Guilder $7.25-million renovation also has spawned some not so Subtle changes. To set off he paintings Hoetink ordered the Walls covered with brightly coloured French Linen embroidered with patterns found on old drawings of the Maurits Huis. Paintings displayed on whitewashed Walls exhaust the Eye Hoetink said. The Wall coverings Are probably a bit provocative but i think the effect will be  As another provocation hotlink commissioned Amsterdam artist Ger  to adorn the baroque ceiling of the first floor exhibition room with to abstract paintings for a striking contrast with the 17th-Century old masters. The museum used he renova Liun period As an Opportunity to promote itself by sending 41 masterpieces on tour in France Japan Canada and he Pniler Stales. June a 1987 slopes i Giziak 13