Travel

General
• Europe for Visitors
• Flags of the World
• TravelAdvisor.com
Moderated community-based travel advice site.

Airlines
• British Airways

Greece
I've visited places in several in Greece: so far, Georgioupolis on Crete, the island of Kefalonia and Athens, Stoupa and Egio (near Patras) on the mainland.

• The Official Greek Tourism web site
Link: http://www.gnto.gr/ (In Greek and English)

• Free high definition map of Greece
Link: www.greeklandscapes.com/maps.html

Italy
• Italy trains - in Italy by train, rail and car

Lake Garda
• Garda Vacanze - Lake Garda Internet Travel Guide
• Hotel, Apartment, Camping in Valtenesi Lake Garda
• Lake Garda; The Italian Riveria

We had a thoroughly enjoyable holiday in Malcesine on Lake Garda in 2005 (and again in 2007), staying at the Hotel Maximilian, which is about 20 - 25 minutes walk south of the town down a short hill and along a flat, well maintained path (there is also a good bus route about 80 metres from the hotel, but the hotel itself is away from the road, on the lake side itself in its own grounds and very quiet).
Our room was not a lakeside one but was excellent (you have to pay extra for a lakeside view) and well maintained throughout our stay. We went half board but the food was consistently well prepared and tasty throughout the week and the service efficient, the waiters and waitresses all very helpful.
This is a popular hotel with German, Austrian and British tourists. Although I got the impression that many of the staff were happier speaking German as well as their native Italian, many staff were very good English speakers (putting us to shame).
Malcesine itself is a great little town with plenty of restaurants to sort all tastes. I recommend taking the cable car up Mount Baldo as long as the day is fine for stunning views of the lake and surrounding area. A trip across the lake to Limone is also recommended, and I am sure many of the other towns are well worth seeing; we personally think Malcesine was the best of the northern towns for us but another visit some time will see us going further afield.

Venice
• Information on the Vaporetto from the airport
• The Hotel Reiter
I stayed in this pleasant hotel during a trip in 2002. The hotel's not in Venice but on the island of Lido and made for a pleasant weekend stopover. It only takes 10 minutes on the vaporetto to get to Venice from Lido and the view is great as you boat into the city, along the Grand Canal.

Norway
I went to Bergen for the Raptus 2003 Convention, and followed it up with some holiday time, taking in the fijords. Highly recommended. The aquarium in Bergen is fascinating.

• Bergen, Norway
• Guide to Bergen

Turkey
I have been to Turkey several times and enjoyed all my trips. My first experience was of Cavus, a small resort but so enjoyable I started some web pages about it (now defunct) which mushroomed into a wonderful Yahoo group and the resort's own dedicated site.

Cavus site: www.cavus-bay.com

Regular visitor to Turkey and cavus dave Newbury also has a splendid web site here: freespace.virgin.net/david.newbury/adrasanda

I have also been to Yalikavak near Bodrum. A busy town, very friendly people.

• Turkish Turquoise Coast Guide

UK
GENERAL
• QJump - Best Rail Ticket Ordering Service

• Good Food Pubs

CORNWALL
• This is Cornwall
• St. Ives, Cornwall -- Official Site

CUMBRIA
Kendal
• The Brewery Arts Centre - Film Page - Whats On
• Kendal Town
• Kendal Hotels Information
• Lake District Theatres

LANCASHIRE
• Lancashire Recipes

Blackpool
• Going Up...

Lancaster
• Virtual-Lancaster
Excellent indie guide to this thriving university town

History of Lancaster
• Mitchells Brewery Excavations - Heritage Report and another report here
• Lancaster Archaeological Society

London
The London Underground
Some people are confused when they come to Down the Tubes, expecting it to be all about the London Underground. Just to be kind, here's some links about the thing.

• London Underground

• The Fun London Underground
Link: http://victorian.fortunecity.com/finsbury/254/
Going Underground is the website about the London Underground that's not for trainspotters.  It was born in the first few days of 1999, and is now an extensive site which has received over 200,000 visitors (currently about 400 a day).  Spawning several imitators, Going Underground has been quoted on radio stations -- and even turned up in office workers' inbaskets.
Plenty of fun about LU, and links to this excellent Going Underground blog (http://london-underground.blogspot.com/)

• Clive D's Underground Lines
Link: www.davros.org/rail/culg
Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides are a series of pages describing the London Underground system and the independent railways of the London area - the Docklands Light Railway and the Croydon Tramlink (neither is a part of London Transport, though the DLR used to be). Each line is covered on a single page.

• Frequently Asked Questions about London Underground
Link: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/uk/transport-london/preamble.html

• London Railways
Link: www.londonrailways.net
Even more info about London's many railways, including a section on ghosts and other things that gho bump in the night.

• London's Transport Musuem
Link: www.ltmuseum.co.uk

• Underground History: Disused stations on London Underground
Link: www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground
A fascinating guide to bits of London Underground no longer used, including parts of stations that are used but have many hidden areas...
If you're into this kind of strange history, atke a look at this Abandonned Stations site (www.abandonedstations.co.uk), which has plenty of photographs of such things.

• TubePrune
Link: www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/index.htm
Tubeprune is an unofficial web site for professional railway people working for London Underground and for those interested in the London Underground railway system. 

• London's Post Office Railway
Link: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.karslake/mailrail/html/home.html
Now closed (yes, the Post Office has lost so much money in recent years it couldn't afford to keep this decidated way of speeding mail deliveries around London open), this site is a fascinating account of the history of this service.
Deep down beneath the choked streets of London was a railway which once ran busily for nineteen hours a day. It carried no passengers and its trains had no drivers or guards. Yet this seemingly strange system was one of the most successful railways in the world.
The Post Office underground railway was a unique solution to the problem of transporting large volumes of mail across a capital city. Designed solely for the movement of letters and parcels, its automatically controlled trains operated on a 6 1/2 mile (10.5Km) route between Paddington and Whitechapel. An average of four million letters were once carried each day between the nine stations on the line - serving two British Rail main line stations and major London sorting offices.

• Subterranea Britannica
Link: www.subbrit.org.uk
Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places. Cold War related material is covered separately within the Research Study Group (RSG). Subterranea Britannica brings together people with an interest in all types of underground space - from deneholes to dug-outs and from souterrains to subways - see the sites pages23/1/03. Indeed, as the list shows, there are at least seventy categories of underground excavations that are of particular interest to our members.