European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lets go kids ski free in Italy from March 20 through april 18, Swiberg Kro Platz plan de Corone located in Bruneck Brunicon Italy and surrounding Dolomite villages offers a great Deal for families who like to ski. Children born since Jan. 1,1987, can receive seven Days half pension a six Day ski pass and ski lessons when they accompany their Parent children born Between Jan. 1,1981, and dec. 31, 1986, pay half Price. A variety of accommodations Complete the packages which Range in Price for adults from 551,000 lire about $346 to 972,t 00 about $611. Summertime activity packages can also be arranged. For information Contact  contour Postrach 195,1-39031 Bruneck Italy. Telephone 0474555-447 or fax 0474-555-544.St. Paths Rhine cruise Quot Eric the red Quot Wilkie playing Host to a St. Patrick s Day cruise on the Rhine River Well it s actually scheduled a few Days after St. Patrick s Day on March 20. Information Tours and travel has chartered a boat that will leave from a  Isaar Rudesheim Germany. The $49 Cost covers round trip bus transportation from several bases an Irish Stew dinner games and prizes. To sign up Call your local itt office or itt at Rhein main a Dan 330-7667.discover science at snips ton the largest science and Industry museum to be built in Britain for 50 years has opened on the site of a former Colliery. Snips ton discovery Park covering 100 acres at Coalville near Leicester 110 Miles North of Londonio partly a Quot hands on Quot museum and partly a Center devoted to the Industrial heritage of Leicestershire. Visitors can Experiment with wind and wave Power walk through an artificial Tornado see lightning created and explore the principles of sound Energy and  bets Here s a list of Quot Best bets Quot for the weekend of March 6-7, and one or two special events you can attend a Little later. Belgium Antwerp s Fine arts museum exhibits from Bruegel to Rubens through sunday. The show features the Antwerp school of painting Between 1550 and 1650. Works by Bruegel Teniers Van  and Rubens have been assembled from collections As far away As Washington d.c., and St. Petersburg Russia. Italy sports office staff members at Camp Darby Are sponsoring a women s history month gala on saturday. Scheduled activities include a Quot gender free fun run Quot at Lake Marola a women s volleyball tournament and a sock hop. For information Call the Camp Darby sports office at Dan 634-7009. Switzerland one of Europe s largest automobile shows is running through March 14 at the palais Des expositions convention Center it a Geneva. This year s International automobile show features the Ford Monde which is marketed As the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in the United states. Also shown will be the four wheel drive Lambour Ghine it and 4x4 twins Nissan terrano a fora Maverick. More details can be obtained by calling 022-798-11-11. Turkey the turkish american association at Izmir As is planning a tour to Kas Kenova on March 24-28. The trip includes bus transportation to and from Kas Kenova two meals per Day lodging in a three Star hotel an English speaking guide and a variety of bus and boat Tours. Cost for the trip is 2,100,000 turkish lire about $233 per person a single room supplement costs 600,000 lire about $67. To sign up Call the turkish american association at 51-215-206 or 51-218-873. United kingdom professional and Amateur philatelists take note the 1993 British philatelic exhibition and Spring stamped is running through sunday in London. The exhibition is in the Royal horticultural Halls located on Grey coat Street and Vincent Square. Rue faster egg markets Start popping up Tike daffodils Over the next several weeks throughout Germany. Featured Are thousands of artistic seasonal creations it such As this Ostrich egg that has been decorated with Oil paint major local industries including Coal mining engineering shoe manufacturing and underwear manufacturing Are examined in entertaining ways. There Are also a working steam pump engine and full size train and vehicle exhibits. A Trail leads visitors around the former Colliery buildings which were in use until the 1980s. The Quot snips ton lady Quot a 700-year-old Tombstone of an unknown woman found in the 1930s 1 is the focal Point of the Center s Entrance. Snips ton discovery Park is open daily. Admission costs 3 pounds about $4.38 for adults and 2 pounds about $2.90 for children. For further information Contact snips ton discovery Park Coalville Leicestershire England le6 2 in. Telephone 0530-510-851.�?~beer and Castle Road Germany s Quot Beer and Castle Road Quot now officially leads from the Western Cerman City of Klumbach to Veimar the Eastern German City famed for its links to Goethe and Schiller. The 130-Kilometer 80-mile Road is Rich in history and culture. On the franconian Side Are towns such As Weissenbrunn Kornach for Schendorf and Lauenstein in Eastern Germany s Thuringia the route takes vacationers via Saalfeld and ban Kenhan to Weimar. For More information about the tourist route Contact tourist information Frank Enwald  21, d-8640 Kornach Germany. Telephone 09261-5748.literary Tours of Britain six Tours covering different aspects of literary Britain with visits to Many places where writers lived or set their stories Are being offered throughout 1993 by heritage touring. Quot exploring Scotland s Border country Quot is offered beginning May 4 or again on sept. 14. It examines Robert Burns Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. Another tour starts on May 11 or sept. 21 and looks at the Yorkshire and Lake District links to Laurence Sterne the Bronte family Wordsworth Ruskin and Beatrix Potter. Quot literature on location Quot is offered june 1 or sept. 28 and Tours locations of film and television versions of books in Wales and England. Quot murder mystery on tour Quot begins june 8 or oct. 12. Its itinerary ranges from Jack the Ripper s London haunts to places linked with such fictional detectives As lord Peter Wimsey miss Marple and chief inspector Morse. Quot murder mystery on tour Quot will include lunch with Best Selling author . James. Another writer Edward Rutherford acts As a guide for a Day during Quot Rutherford s Sarutto begin May t 8 or oct. 5. This trip Tours the locations for his massive historical novel. The sixth tour Quot customs of the counties Quot is offered May 25 or sept. 7. It is also based in Southern England and looks at places linked with such. A Quot. Writers As Dickens Henry James Virginia Woolf Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. Each tour costs 699 pounds about $1,020 per person for five Days guided touring and six nights accommodations in two locations. The Cost includes an evening spent dining with a local family under heritage touring s Quot Home hosting a a scheme. Further details and registration information Are available from heritage touring 754 the Square Catt Istock Dorchester Dorset England dt2 0jd. Telephone 0300 20671.farmhouse vacations old fashioned farm life is alive and Well in the Eastern bavarian town of calling Germany. Vacationers wishing to experience such a lifestyle can stay for three weeks in a farmhouse apartment that houses four people. The arrangement costs 1,020 Marks about $637hearty specialities from the farm s Kitchen Are served. Also planned Are visits to a Potter and to the vehicle museum and Art museum in nearby Stritz Ling. Details can be obtained from the Cvrk Ehrsam Haup Strasse 28, d-w-8351 calling Germany. Telephone 09904-374.jekyll anniversary exhibit works by Certrude Jekyll late victorian Garden designer and writer will be exhibited at London s museum of Carden history from May 6 to aug. 8. The exhibition Marks the 150th anniversary of her birth on nov. 29,1843. Although most famous for her designs of informal herbaceous Borders and her landscape work with architect sir Edwin Lutyens she was a skilled Painter embroiderer Carpenter and designer of Garden furniture. Her paintings textiles embroidery and Garden plans will be on display along with a Large detailed Model of Unstead Wood her House designed by Lutyens. The museum adjoins Lambeth Palace the archbishop of Canterbury s residence South of the thames River opposite the houses of parliament. The exhibition will Manfrom 11 . To 3 . On mondays through fridays. It will run from 10 30 . To 5 . On sundays. Admission is 2.50 pounds about $3.65 vacation Village in Austria the vacation resort Village of Neu Stift in muh Kreis 1. Austria specializes in activities for the whole family. A Broad program of sports adventure and Leisure is offered for All Ages including hiking horseback Riding and Carriage rides and swimming in outdoor or indoor pools. Outdoor enthusiasts can also participate in wind surfing sailing water sliding and fishing on the Lake. In addition visitors can play Tennis go bicycling or camping. Accommodations Range from vacation apartments inns private rooms or youth hostels. To obtain More details Contact  Neu Stift in Moh Kreis Austria. Telephone 07248-8155tour Germany a Rivers a German cruise our company Deutsche  a leads a variety of excursions on the. Rhein Mosel main and Elbe Rivers. Its 350 different itineraries also include hotel ships that sail the Rhein and Mosel Rivers. The company offers a classical Rhein River tour dubbed Quot from the Alps to the North  for More details Call Deutsche  a in Cologne at 02221-208-82-35. Calendar and left go Are compiled by Libby Grimm Marian Hamilton. 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 Apoate 09211 or Postrach 11 1437 6100darmstadt 11 Germany fax Dan 348-8463 or civilian 06155-601463 or Dan 348-8245/8230 or Call civilian 06155-601245/230 Telephone number Lor a tinge on there Pegee Ere Lor cell within the country named. Ii Selling from Enother country Check your Locel Telephone directory for the Correct country code. March 4, 1993 stripes Magazine 21