European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Let s go two for one hotels three hotels in Switzerland Are offering two for one prices on rooms from now through october. The hotel do Lac on the Thun Ersee near Interlaken the sport hotel Central Leys in in the Waad land Alps and the hotel Central in Kurot Lenzer Heide Graubunden offer one free overnight stay with breakfast for every one paid. Normal prices run from 59 to 92 Marks about $32 to $51 per night double occupancy. For details Contact inter Home Corneliu Strasse 6, 8000 Minchen 2, West Germany Tel. 089-2016478. Beach party in Belgium the Beach resort of de panne on the North sea coast of Belgium will Host a spectacular Beach party july 23, with music beginning at 1 . And dancing on Belgium s biggest dance featured artists Are Vaya con Dios Mongo Santa Maria Mory Kante Guresch Patti reggae band us 40, and Johnny Hall Day. A laser show and fireworks display will Complete the evening. Tickets Are 35 Marks $19.25 pre purchased and 40 Marks $22 at the Gate. For tickets or information Call 0032-3-231-38-35 in Antwerp. Festival of London opening festivities on july 22 for the annual City of London festival include an 18th-Century masked Ball a fireworks display and an of roast with dancing and entertainment. The festival continues through aug. 7 at Alexandra Palace and Park six Miles North of Central London. Other events include a Parade with 33 of London s boroughs taking part Chariot races circus open air and travelling theater companies movies opera Art sports events a Vintage car Parade dancing Craft displays and demonstrations and an elizabethan Village with Archery falconry and jousting. Admission to daytime events will be by vouchers with a Book of 20 costing about $9. Driving the Oster Weichring need an automotive Challenge even greater than Europe s super highways try driving on the Oster Weichring in Spielberg Knittelfelde Austria. On non racing Days the track is open to motorists who want to test their driving skills. Both automobiles and motorcycles can be taken on the track. Admission fees Are 70 schillings $5.40 for one Lap 100 schillings $7.80 for two laps. If racing with your own car in t quite your style you can rent a cart and drive on the permanent cart track at the ring. Carts can be rented for 300 schillings $23.50 for the Day. Contact the Oster Weichring ges.m.b.h., 2, 8720 Spielberg Knittelfelde Austria Tel. 03577-22928. Sweden in an of claimer the historic hotel Toft Holm a 600-year-old mansion on the Vid Ostern Lake in Southern Sweden offers not Only traditional hospitality and recreational activities but also a Chance to drive through the Countryside in an antique automobile. The hotel has six autos of the 20s and 30s, from a 1928 Ford Model a Sedan to a 1937 Pontiac. A convertible costs about $142 per Day sedans Cost about $190. Half Day rentals also Are available. Room rates at the hotel including breakfast Are about $44 per person double occupancy. Special rates Are available for room and antique car rental As Well As private vacation cottages on the premises. Contact swedish tourist information Glockengiese seawall 2, 2000 Hamburg 1, West Germany Tel. 040-33-01 -85. Gypsy for a weekend so you want to abandon the rat race for a weekend and rough it or perhaps you re looking for a different sort of camping experience try becoming a Gypsy in Western France for the weekend. For about $280 for three Days the Maison Poitou Charente rents neophyte gypsies a brightly painted Wagon equipped inside with pots and pans dishes bedding no sheets cooler bottled Gas one double bed and three single Beds. The Price also includes one horse for the Wagon feed for the horse instruction in driving the Wagon a detailed route description and insurance coverage. For details write to Maison Poitou Charente 4 Avenue de i opera f-75001 Paris France Tel. 00331 -42-96-01-88. Ask for the brochure titled Roulette in Poitou Charente. Bicycling in Ireland before you set off on a cycling tour of the Emerald Isle be sure to Contact the office of tourism in Ireland for a free map titled cycling in Ireland. The map covers the entire Island showing cycling routes Points of interest historical and cultural stops and Levels of difficulty along the Way. The map also has tips about travelling with your bicycle renting bicycles in Ireland overnight arrangements and information on package Tours. The tourist office also offers a similar brochure on hiking in Ireland with route designations sight seeing stops and information on accommodations. Contact Iris Chen Unterman anlage 7, 6000 Frankfurt main 1, West Germany or Irish tourism offices in other european countries. Overnight in Frankfurt the Frankfurter Haus Der jugend is a hotel youth Hostel and conference Hall under one roof. It offers facilities to Young budget minded guests and to those accustomed to More comfortable surroundings. The least expensive accommodation under the youth Hostel category is an eight bed Hall which runs 14.80 to 17.80 Marks about $8 to $10 per night including breakfast and sleeping bag rental. Rooms for four people including breakfast linens and washing facilities in the room Cost Between 22.80 and 34.80 Marks $12 to $19 per night. Other accommodations Are also available. For conferences meetings or seminars the Frankfurter Haus offers 200 and 500-seat clubroom and party Halls. Contact the Frankfurter Haus Der jugend Deutschner Onufer 12, 6000 Frankfurt am main 70, West Germany Tel. 069-619058. If you re looking for More Plush surroundings the Sheraton hotel at the Frankfurt Airport the largest hotel in Central Europe by the Way is offering special prices until aug. 26, and then from dec. 9-31. Overnight accommodations will be 85 Marks $47 per person on weekends As Well As during the week. The Price includes use of the swimming Pool. Children under 18 May stay free in their parents room. For families with two or More children the double room costs 140 Marks $77. Contact the Frankfurt Sheraton hotel flu Hafen terminal Mitte 6000 Frankfurt am main West Germany Tel. 069-69770. Glacier safari in Tirol Incerpi total is offering Glacier hiking packages now through the Middle of september. In addition to the usual hiking packages the Agency is sponsoring we Klong Glacier safaris for Amateur photographers. Packages Start at 1,760 austrian schillings about $139 for seven nights with breakfasts. Contact the Incerpi total a-6481 St. Leonhard West Germany Tel. 05413-8216. Exhibit focuses on 500 years of Early Greece a mycenaean vase on display in West Berlin. By Deedee Arrington Doke staff writer step into a Golden world of ancient myths legends and lore a civilization credited with producing Europe s oldest decipherable script an age used by Homer greek s earliest and Best known poet As the setting for his epic works the Iliad and the Odyssey. The mycenaean age spanned the years from 1600 to 1100 b.c., the first 500 years of greek civilization. As part of Berlin s Celebration of its selection As a 1988 european City of culture an Awe inspiring collection of antiquities from that Long ago Era is being exhibited at West Berlin s Staat Liche Musteen Preuss Ischer Kultur Pesitz through aug. 19. The exhibition the greek government s contribution to the divided City s cultural Celebration includes items removed from Greece for the first time and Loans from other museums in West Germany Denmark and Switzerland. A German Heinrich Schliemann made the first crucial archaeological finds of the mycenaean civilization during the 19th Century and it is fitting that the relics travelling for the first time outside of Greece should travel to his Homeland. What s striking about this exhibit is the Well cared for appearance of the items most of which Are in excellent condition. Among the pieces exhibited Are pottery samples Gold and Bronze Ware terracotta figurines jewelry weapons and fragments of murals. Also appealing is the items simplicity. The terracotta religious figurines for instance have a childlike Quality with their Large eyes and oddly shaped bodies extended necks Large breasts and Short upwardly stretching arms. These figures Are believed to have had a practical use. Experts say they May have been used by ancient greeks As stand ins when people needed to worship but had other business to take care of. A certain level of sophistication is apparent in the Craft demonstrated in creating mycenaean jewelry particularly in the finely worked ritual and mythic scenes depicted on Gold rings. The exhibit is open 9 . To 5 . Tuesday through sunday. The museum is at Lan Strasse 8, Berlin Dahlem. Admission is g Marks about $3.35also on display Are other exhibits that Merit a viewing particularly those featuring Early arts from far East hindu and moslem civilizations. July 14, 1988 stripes Magazine 21
