Europe String

As previously mentioned, I will be featuring destinations with the following criteria:

The names will be difficult to pronounce and/or spell. At least, for us, English-speakers. (inspired by a chapter in the book How Low Can You Go)
These destinations will be directly served by one of the many budget airlines in Europe
Your travel cost will be minimal
Like most of you, I have never been to any of these unpronounceable, budget locations

Our first featured destination under our new category, Sounds Greek to Me is Rzeszów.
Rzeszów [pronounced zhe-zhoof] is a city in the southeast of Poland, east of Kraków. And …read more

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Please excuse the sporadic updates. I was down with bronco-pneumonia while traveling around South East Asia.
Anyway, I am back and you can expect daily updates once again. For today, I’ll just point out the new routes being serviced by some of the budget airlines which serve Europe:
Norweigan Air now flies between Oslo and Edinburgh and also between Birmingham and Warsaw.
FlyBE has tons of new routes! Check out list below (and FlyBe’s website) for more info.

SkyEurope now flies directly from Vienna.

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Note that fares are exclusive of taxes, fees and charges.
Conditions of this offer:

You only have until Monday, 19February to book.
Travel should be sometime between 23 February and 30 June, 2007.
Flight must be purchased 7 days in advance.
Of course, major events, school vacations and holidays are considered black-out days.

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As previously reported, air passengers leaving UK will be facing an increase from February 2007. Yes, even if you have booked and paid for your flight before the tax hike was announced last December.
To repeat…

On short -haul flights, you can expect a tax increase of £5 to £10 per economy class passenger.
On long-haul flights, you have to cough up £40 for economy class (double for business class but that definitely would not apply to you, dear budget traveler).

Note that AIRLINES ARE DEMANDING FURTHER PAYMENTS FROM TRAVELERS FOR TICKETS BOOKED BEFORE THE TAX HIKE WAS ANNOUNCED.
RyanAir will send an e-mail …read more

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So, it’s part of North Africa but, hey, it is near enough to Europe that those who are already in the continent and are itching for an adventure (cannabis anyone? hehe) at budget prices would probably welcome this news.
From October on, RyanAir will fly from Marseille (for €1) and Frankfurt-Hahn (for €10) to Morocco.Even better, according to the guys over at FlyerTalk, taxes from Morocco is under €10!
Looking for cheap vacation rentals or beachfront property?

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