European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A amps Filo Quot Hessen on ice outdoor ice skating shows in Germany s state of Hessen Are sponsored by radio Fth to Benefit German children who Are ill with cancer. Shows take place Friday through sunday at Friedrichs Platz in Kassel. They also run dec. 30 to Jan. 3, 1993, in front of Frankfurt s alte  go skiers can still get rooms there s Good news for skiers who would like to hit the slopes Over the Christmas holidays but Haven t yet made hotel reservations. Rooms Are available at the Brand new four Star sport hotel Sillian in Austria s Eastern Tirol Region. A night s stay with Buffet breakfast and one other meal costs 840 schillings about $78. For More information Contact sport hotel Sillian a-9920 Sillian Austria Telephone 04842 60110.Benefit for bosnian children wounded and sick children in War torn Bosnia will be helped this Winter with proceeds from Best of Broadway a Benefit musical performance taking place on Christmas Day in Mannheim Germany. It begins at 4 . In the City s Rosengarten Mozart Saal. For ticket information Call by promotions at 0621 121 0010.Schleswig-Holstein celebrates family programs and sports events Are some of the activities that the North German state of Schleswig Holstein plans to ring in 1993. Festivities on Scandinavia bound ferries from trave Munde or Kiel and celebrations in towns and villages Are scheduled. New year s package arrangements for gourmets athletes and a night owls Quot Are available at hotels on the North sea or Baltic sea coasts. The Baltic sea spa Damp for example offers a a Las vegas Quot new year s eve night with dancing Roulette and a show. The town of Fehman specializes in sports events. For information Contact the  Schleswig Holstein Niemann Weg 31, w-2300 Kiel Germany Telephone 0431-560025.land warfare on show life size recreations of battlefields trenches and bomb Sites Are included in a new permanent exhibition at the Imperial War museum at Duxford Airfield near Cambridge England located 60 Miles Northeast of London. The land warfare exhibition Cost about $4 million to construct and fills a 54,000-Square-foot Hall. It includes More than 50 tanks 40 artillery pieces full size gun pits and a French farmhouse and is accompanied by audio visual effects. The exhibition traces the development of military equipment from Wei to the falklands War and the persian Gulf War. Admission costs 5.50 pounds about $8.75 for adults. For further information Contact the Imperial War museum Duxford Airfield Cambridge cb2 4qr, England Telephone 0223-835000.new years dance parties dance the night away on new year s eve at the West Indian american society s Caribbean Ball. It starts at 9 . At Gere Mannheim club behind the american Hospital in Wiesbaden Germany. Music includes reggae disco and lambada. Tickets Cost $12 in Advance and $15 at the door. For tickets Call 06150-6202 or 0611-701721. On new year s Day Salsa fans can Start 1993 on the right foot at a Salsa merengue dance at 8 . At Muvie discotheque in Bamberg Germany. Tickets purchased in Advance Cost $20 or 30 Marks. At the door they Cost $25 or 35 Marks. Entertainment includes Pedro Arroyo from puerto Rico and the Caribe orchestra with Anthony Martinez. For tickets Call 0911-710193 or 0981-77473.skating championships the 1993 european figure skating championships take place Jan. 12-17 at the Helsinki ice Arena in Finland. About 150 skaters from 20 countries participate and 40,000 spectators Are expected to attend. The six Day program includes men s and women s freestyle pairs compulsory original and freestyle ice dancing. The competitions conclude with a gala exhibition. For More information Contact the event s official travel Agency Quality Tours ltd., Manne Rheumintie 15 a sf-00260 Helsinki Finland Telephone 90-491511 or fax 90495757. Or Contact the finnish National tourist Board at Tobolo Latu 11, sf-00101 Helsinki Finland Telephone 90403011.york�?Ts Viking festival a regatta with ships from Norway a Battle re enactment two Viking feasts and a torchlight procession Are among the highlights of the eighth Jorvik Viking festival scheduled for feb. 12-27 in York England. The medieval walled City located 193 Miles North of London was a major Viking settlement in the ninth Century. The Viking feasts costing 25 pounds about $40 per person will be held in the 14th-Century merchant adventurers Hall on feb. 13 and 27. The festival also includes Viking arts demonstrations games guided walks concerts Craft displays and lectures. For further information Contact the Jorvik festival office com ltd., 4 Clifford st., York y01 1rd, England Telephone 0904-611944.winter fun in the Black Forest rambling with or without Snow is the theme of Unter Krnach a German resort town located in the Central Black Forest. The area offers guests a 50-mile network of paths and More than 30 Miles of marked ski trails. From Jan. 6 until the end of March weekend specials can be booked. A bed breakfast and extras Quot Start at 195 Marks about $125. For details about the weekend special and also about ski classes Contact the Verk Ehrsam i Laup Strasse 19, w-773 1 Unter Krnach Germany Telephone 07721 -800837. Calendar and lets go Are compiled by Libby Grimm Laura Dehr and Gidget Smith. Items should be received by stars and stripes at least two weeks in Advance. Send them to lets go special sections european stars and stripes unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 11 1437 6100 Darmstadt 11 Germany fax Dan 348-8463 or civilian 06155-601463 or Dan 348-8245/8230 or Call civilian 06155-601245/230 Tel Mon mime re for letting of on to too Magoo a re for Calls a limn Tho country named. If Emlong from another country chock your local Telephone directory for the Correct country  bets Here s a list of a Best bets Quot through the weekend of dec. 19-20. Germany on saturday at 7 ., Wurzburg s hispanic Community sponsors a Christmas dance on the alte Liebe a ship docked at the City s alte Krane port on the main River. A do will entertain and Spanish food comes with the entry Price $12 in Advance or $15 at the Dock. To buy tickets Call Justo Estrada at 0931-706-197. Heidelberg s College of Fine arts presents a Christmas experience concert on sunday at 4 . In Bonifatius Church on Kaise Strasse in Heidelberg West Stadt. Soloists choir and orchestra members of the College perform Bach s cantata no. 147 and Joseph Rheinberger s the Star of Bethlehem. Tickets Cost 14 to 20 Marks about $9-13 and can be purchased in Advance from the Heidelberg opera or at the door. For further information Telephone 0622116-18-60. Through sunday children in the 26th area support group communities of Heidelberg Mannheim Karlsruhe and Worms can talk on the Telephone to Santa Claus. Call the Mars station at 370-6608/8256 from 9 . To 4 30 . For details about a operation Santa  Italy spend saturday until the Day after Christmas skiing the matterhorn. Naples Sci Marco ski club has organized the trip which costs 750,000 lire about $535 for one week s lodging food and ski pass. Call Jim at Dan 625-4504 or Jennifer at Dan 625-4350. Spain take in an evening of seasonal slapstick when Rota military Community s Little theater performs sorry wrong Chimney on Friday saturday and sunday in the recreation Center s ballroom. The comedy was written by Jack Sharkey and Leo Sears. For More information Call the rec Center at 956-823101 or Jeannine Jensen at 956-82-2078. United kingdom lovers of Shakespeare who visit Britain Over the holidays should t miss two Royal Shakespeare company shows at London s barbican theatre. On the tragic Side is Hamlet starring Kenneth Branagh Best known for his film of Henry Vas the melancholy Prince dressed in Black. On the lighter bide is the comedy of errors with Welsh actor Desmond Barrit playing the confused Long lost twin Brothers. Hamlet opens tonight and the comedy of errors opens wednesday. The shows run in repertory. Call the barbican at 638-8891. December 17, 1992 stripes Magazine 17