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Venice City Tours

TOURS: The best tour of Venice is the one you can take by yourself. Venice is a relatively small city; it can be covered almost entirely in two days of walking. It's fun simply to wander-through streets so narrow your outstretched hands can touch the buildings along each side-to gaze in stores where eels and octopus are the bill of fare. Then take a marathon vaporetto ride: start at the railroad station and glide up the Grand Canal to the Lido at the other end. That takes an hour, and provides your best all-around look at the city.

But don't confine your sightseeing to the Grand Canal; you haven't really seen Venice until you've also made the trip around the outside of the city, via the equally important Giudecca Canal. From St. Mark's Square, take a Circolare Motoscafo, which makes an entirely circular tour of the city-one goes clockwise, the other counter-clockwise-along the Canale Giudecca route. Or, for an even more comprehensive outer tour, take a #5 vaporetto from St. Mark's Square to St. Giorgio, then all around Venice-a long, one hour and ten-minute trip to the Fondamente Nuova on the other side, from which you can cross over to the island of Murano, and back. Then, from the Fondamente Nuova, cut across Venice on foot, back to the Piazza San Marco. You'll have seen a great deal more than you'd glimpse on a commercial tour to Murano, with scores of other tourists.

Studying in Paris For Americans

STUDENT IN PARIS: The most exalted citizens of France are students and that's a category applied as easily to a sophomore from Rutgers as to an existentialist from the Sorbonne. Any student, whether French or foreign, studying in Paris or simply there on a vacation, can take advantage of literally dozens of government-operated, or government-subsidized, student hotels, and of more than 40 student restaurants in Paris, whose prices are among the best values in Europe. Generally (but not always), you'll need proof of student status for an "International Student ID Card." With one, you can then proceed to obtain your housing and meals in Paris by following any one of three courses of action:

By writing to the O.T.U. First, and best of all, is to write to the Office du Tourisme Universitaire, c/o French Cultural Services, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York 21, which exists for no other purpose than to book students into centrally-located student hotels in Paris, provide them with access to student restaurants, French-language courses, and all the rest. Given enough advance notice, they'll book you for a minimum stay of a week in a student residence or hotel where the charge for room and breakfast can go with low prices. They'll also provide you with a brochure on other O.T.U. services, advise you on special student transport within Europe, student resorts, many other items. The O.T.U. New York office closes, by the way, from July 1 through the end of August-on the assumption, apparently, that all students are by that time in Europe.

A timely letter to the O.T.U. can obviously prove of aid. But if you have neglected to do this in advance of your trip, you can try again, in person, at the Paris office of the O.T.U. (9, avenue Georges Bernanos 75005 Paris) upon your arrival in the city. This time, the student-age personnel who man the home office will attempt to place you in a student hotel or residence-provided you plan a stay in Paris of at least a week. Even if you don't, you should still drop in to pick up their list of student restaurants serving meals (hors d'oeuvres, entree, dessert and beverage) and to obtain current information on where student meal tickets can be gotten. If you write to the New York office of O.T.U., be sure to enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Nice Side-Trips

SIDE-TRIPS: Nice should be made your headquarters for forays along the Riviera. That way, you'll be able to dart to high-priced Monaco or Cannes in the day, but return to a budget-priced pad in low-cost Nice at night. The train takes exactly 26 minutes to make the trip to Monaco, leaves every half-hour. The trip to Cannes takes 47 minutes, and also leaves at half hour intervals. . . . You'll want to make at least one run to Monaco by bus, along the incredibly beautiful Moyenne Corniche. Buses depart from the Gare d'Autobus; and every half-hour from 2:00 p.m. Monaco features: the Casino at Monte Carlo (passport essential; sober dress -tie and jacket-usually required), the palace of our own Princess Grace, a yacht basin of ten filled with the pleasure craft of Greek millionaires, and the famous "Musee Oceanographique," world's largest marine museum. You may have no present liking for the subject of sea-life, but you'll soon pick it up at this place; a fascinating, weird series of exhibits. . . . Whatever you do, don't stay overnight in Cannes, the most expensive city on the Riviera, totally lacking the hordes of prix fixe restaurants and budget hotels found in Nice. . . . On a day excursion to Cannes, however, try to get to Ste. Marguerite, a mile away, to view the fort built by Richelieu, where you can still see the cell where the Man in the Iran Mask was held prisoner for 11 years by Louis XIV. . . .

European Pick-up Changes

PICK-UP CHARGES: Remember, in considering the above rental costs, that they apply only if you yourself return the car to the city in which you've rented it. If you do not make such a round-trip, you may have to pay an extra charge for the pick-up of the car. One summer, for example, Hope and I rented a car in Barcelona, and drove it-over the course of two weeks-to Milan. Upon arriving in Milan, we had to wire the name of our hotel to the Barcelona agency, which immediately put a man on the train to Milan, where the next day he met us at the hotel, picked up the car keys, and drove the car back to Barcelona.

Are there any methods of avoiding this incredibly wasteful procedure? You will find, when you arrive in Europe, that most of the rental agencies have now progressed to the point where they waive the pick-up charge if you drop off the ear in any of several major cities in the same country where you picked it up. Thus, virtually any French-based agency will waive that charge if you drop off the car in Paris or Nice (the theory being that there are always plenty of people to whom they can rent the car in those cities). Rent the car in any city in Italy and you can drop it off, without further charge, in Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples. . . . But cross a border, and you're sunk. You'll then have to pay the charges caused by the refusal of European agencies to work out an auto exchange system similar to those maintained by the major auto rental companies in the United States. A highly-publicized "Rent it Here-Leave It There" plan, which most of the European companies now offer, actually involves a hidden charge for pick up-and therefore you're again paying for return of the car.

Florence - A city for reflection

After the frenzy of Venice, this is a city for reflection. The museums of Florence have a near monopoly on the artistic masterpieces of the Renaissance. The treasures here are so thick that Raphael's priceless Madonna of the Chair is casually stuck away in a little nook of the Uffizi Galleries. This is also a city for buying gifts. You'd do well to hold off on your European shopping until you've seen the leather goods stalls in the Florence straw market or the jewelry shops on the Ponte Vecchio. Items which sell for $10 on New York's Fifth Avenue are priced here at a couple of bucks.

HOTELS: For, Florence has some of the least costly hotel "finds" in Europe-so many of them, in fact, that it really isn't necessary to move as high as the Second Class category-although there are some pretty superb choices in that classification, too. You ought to know, preliminarily, that some of our selections are pensions-the tiny European hotels that offer meals along with their rooms (some, however, do not require that you take the meals). In Italy, the normal pension ("pensione") consists of a single floor of an apartment house or office building, almost always upstairs; and you must reserve judgment until you've actually ascended in the elevator and inspected the accommodations. Particularly in Florence-which is an ancient city, historic, and with virtually no modern buildings-the inside appearance of most pensions is far better than their shabby 18th-century exteriors would indicate. Some of them offer amazingly large rooms, with balconies, parlors, all sorts of added features.

Galata Kulesi - Galata Tower in Istanbul

The oldest and most beautiful tower of Istanbul was constructed in 528 by the Emperor Justinian. The tower was damaged in 1261. In 1349 the Genoese have constructed a new tower on the site of the earlier tower. In 1446 the building was restored and supported by retaining walls.

The tower measures 61m. from the ground and 140 m. from the sea level. The inner diameter is 8.95 m. while the walls have a thickness of 3.75 m. Three floors of the tower are constructed in the style of the Genoese and the upper parts in the Turkish style.

Galata Tower Restaurant

Indoor restaurant and cafeteria cap. 100, Night Club cap. 135, Parking, Turkish & French and international cuisines, sea food and meat dishes. Specialities are Celebi and sultan Kebap, special wine. a la carte service, all kinds of drinks, open buffet. Live music, Turkish fasil and pop, view of Bosphorus, Marmara Sea, old Istanbul, and Golden Horn from historical tower, 3 km to Taksim. All credit cards accepted.