A note in passing: for those hunting cheap flights in Europe

[dianeduane]

Check out this website, which specializes in nothing but the low cost airlines:

Momondo.com

If it can't find a carrier for a route you're interested in, it brings up a whole sheaf of other travel sites for you to search. Some of these I'd never even heard of (which is saying something).

There are also blogs associated with the site (the "wing blog" seems a little outdated, but the "wheel blog" and "bed blog" are more up to date). One interesting link that came up on the bed blog, btw: TabletHotels, "Hotels for Global Nomads". I always like it when a site offers me hotels I've stayed at and loved (it just showed me, in one of the hotel images, the very table I sat at in the dining room when I was last there). Check out this one, for example, attached to a famously cool spa facility I've wanted to go to for a long time.

(sigh) No time right now for any kind of travel except the virtual. But it's fun to be able to look at these things and think about when things get a little quieter, a couple of months down the line...

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Now that is incredibly useful - thanks! I think it is quite likely that you have just enabled me to get to next year's Montreal Baroque Festival, though I'm going to need to check the dates. I didn't think I could go for less than £600, but I've found some flights in the low £300s.

Why Montreal? Because they always get my favourite tenor (http://www.hazardchase.co.uk/client/charlesdaniels.shtml) over there and give him star treatment to the extent that they pretty much organise the Festival around him, that's why.

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Thank-you!

[giza.livejournal.com]

Neat! That gives me more options for an upcoming Christmas trip of mine.

FWIW, if you're looking for airfares inside the US, Farecast (http://www.farecast.com/) does something similar.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Much thanks!

Note that Momondo does have fares from the US -- but for Minneapolis-London, their lowest is a bit higher than the lowest from Farecast.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Much thanks!

[moonreviews]

Oh, nice site :) Will be useful...

Today I found a Dutch edition of "High Wizardry". Here's a small image of the cover: http://www.boekrecensie.com/9024547296
I've read book 1~8 in English, so I'm very curious to the way they have translated this book. And of course the size of the book is larger than American-paperback-size... I quickly looked through it already and I see quite a few computer-related terms are left untranslated [which is often the case with computer-terms used in Dutch ~~ not translated].

Off the topic

[molesworth.livejournal.com]

Just found your journal & wanted to say hello! Please pass on belated condolences to Peter, I'm going through similar trials at the moment with mum in a nursing home.
Also keen to know if my recent jail spell has cost me my starship captaincy?

All best,

Nic

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you heard but Luciano Pavarotti passed away today.

While this is a terrible loss to the music world, my first thought was of course "Did he get eaten by a dinosaur in Central Park?"

I feel I now need to reread Book of Night with Moon in his honor.