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The best way to see the real US
The Greyhound bus is a national institution in America, and offers a great way to see the country. (Original abstract - amended)
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Coastal Spain: Parasols and high art ; There's much more to soak up than the sun on Spain's beach resorts, says Michael Pauls
Back in the Sixties Robert Graves got an insight into a new phenomenon when he overheard two secretaries discussing their holidays. One mentioned she had gone to Mallorca and her friend asked her where that was. 'Don't know,' was the reply, 'I flew.' Spain's Mediterranean resorts have had a reputation ever since; strange holiday infernos of licensed burro taxis, wide-screen TVs blaring out Manchester United matches and baked beans on toast pustulating under beach umbrellas. Is there anything more edifying under the Iberian sun? Is it possible to have a simpatico beach holiday with some art and culture too? Let's take a quick tour around Spain's coasts, starting with the Costa del Sol, and see if we can do it. Start right at the French border with San Sebastian, quite simply the most gracious seaside resort in all of Spain (see box, right). Heading west from there, the mountainous Basque coast hides sweet villages, such as Getaria and Lekeitio, where you can spend the off- beach hours getting to know your kind but inscrutable Basque hosts. After these comes the last place in the world you would think of as a resort \" gritty, industrial Bilbao. Everyone goes there for Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum and the other monuments of a surprisingly refined city. But not many know you can do 'El Goog' in the morning, then take a 20-minute metro ride to clean, attractive beaches at Getxo and Plentzia. There are plenty of other things to see in this surprising corner of Cantabria: just 15 minutes down the coast lies one of the loveliest villages in Spain, Santillana del Mar, a jewel of medieval architecture. But culture in these parts goes even further back \" by about 14,000 years. Just outside Santillana the famous cave at Altamira contains herds of thundering bison and graceful deer, a masterpiece of Upper Paleolithic art. The cave itself is too delicate to receive visitors, but there's a near-perfect replica of it and several other painted caves in the area.
Newspaper Article
The best way to see the real US ; The Greyhound bus is a national institution in America. It's played a role in Hollywood movies and the civil rights movement and has even been immortalised in song by Simon and Garfunkel. And it still offers a great way to see the country, says MICHAEL PAULS
The Greyhound got its start in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota, transporting iron miners. Its operators had the foresight to build it into the first nationwide bus line, and they got their big break with the film It Happened One Night (1934), in which Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert rode a Greyhound overnight to Florida while the passengers sang \"The Man On The Flying Trapeze\". The Dog has been a national institution ever since. When the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement went down south in the Sixties, Greyhound is what they were riding; one of their buses got firebombed in Alabama in 1962. The Greyhound station in Clarksville, Mississippi, the Gateway to Chicago, is a blues legend, and it is now incorporated into the Delta Blues Museum there. The slogan is: \"Travel throughout North America with safety, dignity and convenience\". Greyhound sends off more than 20,000 buses every day. The busiest line connects New York to the casinos in Atlantic City, but you can ride a Greyhound to the Yukon, or to Guadalajara or Tampico. You can ride over the top of Hoover Dam on it. The Dog will take you to the manifold delights of Chicago. It will take you to the prairie oasis of Kansas City, the \"City of Fountains\", or to Detroit, to see ruins and Art Deco treasures and Diego Rivera murals. It will take you to Portland, Oregon, America's most progressive city, or to Fort Lauderdale or Taos or Las Vegas, to hillbilly paradise in the lovely Ozarks or to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the Bach Festival. Greyhound has closed down its UK office to cut costs, but various British agents, including STA Travel (08701 606 070, www.statravel.co.uk), sell tickets and passes. Alternatively, you can find out all you need to know about the Dog - route maps, passes and schedules - on the excellent website www.greyhound.com. Telephone enquiries can be made on 001 402 330 8552, or within the US for free on 1 800 229 9424. The phones are unstaffed between 3am and 5am central time (9pm to 11pm, British time). If you prefer to fix things as you go along, you'll find the best thing about Greyhound is the sheer simplicity of it all. Just line up and buy a ticket, check your bags and get on. There are no ticket or seat reservations on Greyhound. On the other hand, there's usually plenty of room, and the company is good about running extra buses when a scheduled service fills up.
Newspaper Article
Travel: The 10 best film festivals: Holidays in the dark: The festival season opens at Sundance next week. And, according to Michael Pauls , you don't have to be on the A-list to join the party
>> The festival: Various passes and ticket packages are available, from $350-$2,500, which can be ordered by phone or online (001-801 525 2525, sundance.org). >>> Getting there: Park City is connected by coach to Salt Lake City International Airport, 37 miles away. Delta (0800 414767, delta.com) and Air France (0845 0845 111, airfrance.com) often have good deals. >>> Getting there: Buzz (0870 2407070, buzzaway.com) fly from Stansted . Check for special package deals at the German Travel Centre (020-8429 2900). >>> Accommodation: Try to find anything in a neighbourhood near the centre, and the efficient S-bahn and U-bahn will get you wherever you need to go. You can book hotels and tickets by ringing the Berlin-Hotline (0049 1 90-01 63 16). >>> The festival: Info is available at festival-deauville .com. They sell 'badges' - discount passes that are good for some or all festival events.
Newspaper Article
Shared secrets Michael Pauls, co-author of the Cadogan Guide to Turkey, picks his favourite resorts along the coast
Many people have difficulty telling Bodrum from Marmaris - and Kusadasi is distinctive North of Kusadasi, anything on the Cesme Peninsula is overdone, especially Ilica. Most of the Lycian coast is too rugged for sprawling resorts, but wherever nature permits, as at Kemer, near Antalya, the developers have been merciless.
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