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There are bike rental places there, and a commercial bike sharing scheme - Getting around (coruna.gal but the sharing scheme map shows low availability at the tower. It is too far to walk (4km) and easy getting a bus (number 5 or number 17). If you want to go up the tower then make sure you book tickets online in advance as there are only limited numbers of people allowed up at any time - Tower of Hercules (coruna.gal) And do take a walk around the nearby sculpture park.

Sounds like a win then. That's the response from many non-EU airlines - deny, deny, deny, and hope that the complainer goes away. There is an 'extraordinary circumstances' get out for the airlines, but the EU courts have ruled on a number of occasions that what counts as 'extraordinary circumstances' is quite limited - for example there was a recent case where the pilot was sick, and the judgement from the court was 'tough, you should have spare pilots available'.

If it was a through ticket to your destination via Chicago, and not two tickets (Venice to Chicago and then Chicago onwards) then it still applies and they owe you €600 each.

Yes - download the app from whichever sort of phone you use here - Stockperks You upload a copy of the proof of shareholding through the app, they verify it, then you add the details of your cruise into the app, and then the credit is applied to your account. It was far far quicker than the old method when I used it recently.

EU Regulation 261/2004 (Regulation - 261/2004 - EN - Flight Compensation Regulation - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)) applies to all airlines that are leaving the EU to any destination not just EU airlines to EU destinations (it only applies to EU airlines when arriving in the EU). If you were delayed arriving by more than three hours then AA (American Airlines?) owe you €600 each - Air passenger rights - Your Europe (europa.eu) The drink drive limits in France is 0.05%, so lower than the USA which I believe is 0.08% and the penalty is generally a fine. However... if you exceed 0.08% the penalty is the car being seized, a fine up to €4,500, and up to two years in prison.

Frankly I have been delayed far more often with 'Full Cost Carriers' than I have with 'Low Cost Carriers' (and as Vueling is part of IAG and often codeshares its flights with BA, is it a LCC...). Within Europe even Low Cost Carriers are legally required to pay compensation for flight delays over three hours the same as Full Cost Carriers, and that compensation is quite punitive - €250 for flights up to 1500km (most flights within Europe), €400 between 1500 and 3500, and €600 if over 3500 plus a liability for accommodation and food if the delay is extended - and so if you have been selling your seats for €20 and have to pay out €250 because you are late...

Train! It is a simple 75 minute journey costing €27.40 each - Cheap Train Tickets | Timetables for Germany & Europe - Deutsche Bahn And for information on any train travel anywhere in Europe this website is excellent - The Man in Seat 61 | The train travel guide

You might also want to look at flights from Gatwick, as it is fewer changes on the train to get there and the low cost carriers will operate out of there and generally don't out of Heathrow. If looking at the low cost carriers, those that fly that route to Fiumicino from Gatwick are Easyjet, Jet2, Wizz, and Vueling. Easyjet have a habit of overbooking and bumping passengers, Jet 2 have a good reputation, Wizz have a very poor reputation for customer service and reliability, and Vueling is part of IAG that owns BA (you will often see codeshares with BA and Vueling but the individual websites selling at different prices). Ryanair, who have a bit of a reputation and some take a strong dislike to but are pretty damn reliable, don't fly to Fiumicino but to Giovan Battista Pastine in Rome, so that may not be suitable for you. Personally rather than search each company's website, I tend to use Google Flights as a first check before then going to the company website as the filtering tools are far better. If flying with BA, then keep an eye out for their flight sales, and particularly their business class flight sales. Business class on these short hop flights isn't anything out of the ordinary on the aircraft as it is just the normal seats with the middle seat in the group of three kept empty, but it does include luggage, lounge access, food, a shorter check-in, etc, and frequently the price difference between than and economy with all the luggage is pretty low. Lastly, as you are travelling on a Sunday, be aware that is the day that maintenance work tends to done on the railways, so there can be cancelled trains with the dreaded 'rail replacement bus' which is a nightmare if you have luggage and takes a long long time to get anywhere.

Kings Cross was actually the station I was thinking of! Amusingly if you ignore the direction signs to the Piccadilly line from the main station and walk in the opposite direction you get there in a quarter of the time. But such misdirection and hidden routes occur everywhere - I recently discovered the secret route at Gatwick airport that bypasses the long and tortious route from security to the departure hall through the duty free, and instead takes you directly there.

In addition to what other people have said, I thought it would be worth mentioning that even where there are lifts or escalators (and do stand on the right...) then there can be significant distances involved within the flat parts of the tube station, with some stations actually directing you a longer way around to reduce crowds on the platforms. Furthermore, depending on the time of day you are travelling, the tube can be really busy - not just mildly busy, but absolutely crammed in with no room at all to move busy. And then lastly, central London isn't actually that big and walking is quite possible - don't be those people who get on the tube to travel between Covent Garden and Leicester Square.

Certainly is, hence the 95% empty restaurant. Given what has happened to Sindhu over the years, and now that menu is little more than 'roast meat with an Indian name', then the 'fusion' aspect of this Asian menu rather hints that this will be the same.

The Green & Co menu is vegan, and the sushi offering is from the Mizuhana part, hence the name 'Green & Co feat. Mizuhana'. Because they are offering a niche menu to a niche audience, and most of that audience are not on P&O ships!

Neither soap nor alcohol destroys norovirus, unless the soapy water is above 60c which would scald your hands. Washing your hands properly with soap and water simply removes the norovirus from your hands, but the important bit is properly, and not just showing them the to the tap.

The Green & Co part of the restaurant isn't vegetarian it is vegan which is substantially different. And yes some customers order vegetarian dishes in restaurants that also serve non-vegetarian dishes, but there is a choice. The issue with the Green & Co part is that like most vegan restaurants they only sell vegan food, because vegans seem to get very upset if they sell non-vegan food, even if it is just vegetarian food. That is an issue for most people who are not vegans, hence lots of vegan restaurants going out of business, and if as well as the vegan dishes, they had vegetarian dishes, and non-vegetarian dishes then the place would be an awful lot busier than it is now.

They wouldn't have been, as the many vegan restaurants that are closing in the UK are finding out. Less than 4% of the UK population is vegan, and that falls to under 2% for those age 50 and over (which is a substantial proportion of the P&O demographic). No matter how well you try and sell vegan food as an idea the vast majority of your customer base is going to give it a miss. If you suggested running the Crows Nest bar as an alcoholic free drinks bar to appeal to the 20% of the population who don't drink then you would be decried as completely crazy - but that is what the Green and Co restaurant is trying to do.

So P&O has finally realised that having a faddy vegan menu that only appeals to a tiny fraction of the population wasn't a smart move, and actually having a menu that most people actually want to eat (and pay for) would be a good idea.

That ship sailed in 2016, although fortunately some of us have ancestry that mean it does not apply.

It's complicated - Microsoft PowerPoint - Seatrade 2024 - EU Border Systems CLIA presentation (cruising.org) But it would seem to be that for cruises starting and ending in the UK with Schengen area stops that ETIAS (when it comes in) would need to be checked on embarkation, but EES is not needed since, as now, the ship is effectively confirming that passengers have returned back on-board. So the old 'Southampton to the Med and back to Southampton' cruises are not getting involved with EES. For cruises starting or ending in a Schengen area port and ending or starting in a non-Schengen port (mainly repositioning cruises) then EES (and ETIAS if arriving) does apply as that is when you are entering or leaving the Schengen area. For cruises starting and ending from a Schengen area port and only Schengen stops then nothing is required, because the EES and ETIAS would be done when you entered and left the Schengen area, for example at the airport. However for cruises starting and ending from a Schengen area port that include non-Schengen stops then whether to process EES is down to the Schengen member states involved and the risk profile of the passengers. So that is potentially problematic for Gibraltar (at the moment, unless they get their way to join Schengen), Cyprus, north African ports, (and very theoretically, Ireland - but I doubt there are any cruises that start and end from a Schengen country and take in Ireland as a stop but don't take in the UK). So all fun and games, and I would expect that some cruise companies who do cruises out of Schengen ports but which include non-Schengen stops to north Africa or Gibraltar will now be thinking about whether it is worth the hassle in future.

It was certainly there last December, and it was so bad they eventually closed the doors at each end to prevent people walking through that area. Also there were buckets out and the carpets were wet with whatever was causing the foul stench - it wasn't just a mild 'whiff'.

The Entry/Exit Scheme (EES) starts on the 6th October 2024 and it is the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) that has been pushed back and is now due to start in mid-2025. EES is the system that requires you to provide fingerprints and a facial image on your first entry to the EU. EES is the system to replace the 'wet stamping' of passports and will record the entry and exit of non-EU nationals on a computer system to track that they have not exceeded the time they can spend in the Schengen area - normally 90 days in a rolling 180 days. Individuals will be able to check that website to see the number of days they have spent in Schengen and how many days you have remaining that you can spend, but EES is going to catch out a *lot* of people who have been playing fast and loose with the 90/180 rule. Theoretically EES should identify family members of EU citizens as although their details are recorded, the time they spend in the Schengen area with their EU citizen family member doesn't count against the 90/180 day rule (time spent on their own does). ETIAS is different to EES and is a travel authorisation for visa exempt non-EU citizens. ETIAS requires you to proved lots of information, not only name, address, and date of birth, but also such information about education, occupation, criminal convictions, past travel in certain areas of the world. The ETIAS authorisation lasts three years or the expiry of your passport if earlier, and costs 7 euros unless you are over 70 or under 18 or a family member of an EU citizen - those people still need to apply for ETIAS, it is just there is no cost. Essentially EES tracks *when* you have been in the EU and ETIAS allows the EU to identify *who* they don't want to let in.

My prediction is that the individual pricing of items will eventually disappear after this trial, as it would make it more profitable if they were certain to sell three courses to each diner - and it isn't as if there isn't precedent as Epicurean is a fixed price for the whole meal. As for the menu, I see it hasn't changed from the 'roast meat that has seen some spices' approach that unfortunately they went down a few years ago.

Google doesn't reveal any company by that name.

They do, but would you hand the keys to your car over to them?

There is a company with that name if you place the word 'cruise' in front. I won't link to it as there are zero reviews of it and it seems to be run out of a residential house in Southampton, has only been running for 12 months, and the director's main business is a retail corner shop. I wouldn't.

If you wanted a situation where infected people are touching things that others will then touch after washing their hands and then use their fingers to eat with without again washing their hands, then utensils in the buffet has got to be a damn good choice. If people are careful (and the staff clean properly) then in most other circumstances you are washing your hands after touching common surfaces but before eating. Whereas in the buffet there is a lot of touching common surfaces after you have washed your hands, and I have rarely seen anyone get their food and then go and wash their hands again before eating. And miss out on the tepid food, the crowds, the fighting for a table...