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WORD OF MOUTH
GOSSIP FROM THE NETWORK
€40
AMSTERDAM
Price of a picnic
with Butler For
Hire. From late
April to August,
a butler can
be hired to set
up and clear
away a picnic
in Vondelpark,
which includes
real crystal, china,
rugs, pillows and
a menu of meat,
cheese and wine.
butlerforhire.nl
€30,000
CYPRUS
Cost of a
25m-long old
fishing boat
that has been
bought by the
Cyprus Tourism
Organisation to be
sunk off Paphos to
create the island’s
first artificial reef.
When complete,
hopefully by 2015,
the area will be a
dive and snorkel
destination.
100M
BARCELONA
The height of
the proposed
Barcelona Rock
Hostel, which
recently won a
Bohemia Hostel
for Backpackers
competition
with its plan to
create a virtual
mountain with
outdoor ledges for
climbers to sleep
on, along with 50
indoor rooms.
130
GLASGOW
Age of the
Barlinnie prison,
which – it has
been suggested –
might become a
tourist attraction
when it finally
closes.“It could
be the Alcatraz
of Glasgow,” says
Graeme Pearson,
Labour MSP for
South Scotland
– though without
the boat ride.
NETWORK IN NUMBERS
Fishy
Business
BILBAO
Shopkeepers searching for ways
to survive the recession should look for
inspiration to Mungia, 20km fromBilbao.
Here, brother and sister fishmongers
Ruben and Marga Rios have come up
the idea of selling fresh fish from a
vending machine. Buying the freshly
caught seafood fromBilbaomarket in
the morning, they clean, prepare and
package it before loading the machine.
Apparently, the innovation has become
very popular, especially with young
people on weekend nights out.Well, it
makes a change from a kebab.
Return to
the Island
NANTES
Mont Saint-Michel – the
magical place that Victor Hugo
said was to France “what the Great
Pyramid is to Egypt” – has for
years been blighted by a large car
park, part of the causeway that has
bound it to the mainland since the
1870s. Now, due to the destructive
silting up of the bay, the decision
has been made to allow the mount
to become an island once more.
So, on 28 April, the car park will
close and visitors will have to leave
their vehicles on the mainland,
either walking the 2.5km across to
the island or taking a horse-drawn
coach. By 2014, the causeway will
be replaced by a bridge (as shown)
and the mount will once again be
an island.
projetmontsaintmichel.org