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tuesday, march 31, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
Eurailpass tempts overindulging f
Commentary by Robert Bauer
Imagine walking into a Baskin-Rohhins 31 Flavors Ice
Cream Store and being told that for $1 you can have a dip
of every flavor of ice cream. Now let's sec, 31 dips.
That would probably equal at least one gallon of ice
cream. How do you suppose you would feel after eating
a gallon of ice cream?
departures
Such are the dangers of the best travel bargain avail
able to North America. The Hurailpass. This pass affords
60 days of unlimited travel on the rail systems of all
free liuropc and Greece, except for England, plus a hoard
of other benefits that you probably don't care to hear
about. The cost for the second-class Youth pass is just
$330, or S3 .50 a day.
The problem is that people seem to think they have
to make the most possible of their investment. They then
proceed to travel, cat, sleep, sight -see and eventually go
crazy on European trains.
Not that European trains are a bad place to go crazy,
but it just seems to defeat the initial purpose for going
overseas.
Festival Nights '81
effective fund-raiser
More than twice the total number of pledges and mon
ey ever raised by a fund-raising and awareness campaign
marked the conclusion of Festival Nights '81, announced
Jack McBride, general manager of the Nebraska Educat
ional Television Network.
"This 17-day public television campaign is the most
successful event of its kind ever undertaken by the Neb
raska ETV Network and Nebraskans for Public Tele
vision." McBride said.
Sponsored by the nonprofit citizen support group
NPTV. the seventh annual spring program festival was
held to increase viewer awareness of Nebraska public
television and to encourage membership in the NPTV
citizen support organization.
McBride announced that of 5,297 membership pledges,
amounting to $136,682, were received during televised
"pledge breaks" on the Nebraska ETV Network.
"Dollar-wise and pledge-wise, this is more than twice
the total of the 1980 spring campaign," McBride said.
"With the cost of producing and acquiring television
programs spiraling year by year, it is becoming more than
ever necessary to seek additional income to provide the
quality programs viewers expect to see on Nebraska
ETV stations."
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The key to getting the most for your Eurailpass dollar
is moderation, much like the ice cream.
Probably the best thing that will come out of using a
Eurailpass will be a rcnowed respect for trains. The differ
ence between European and American trains is much like
the difference between raw sugar and a fine milk-chocolate
candy bar. And Amtrak is definitely not the candy
bar.
The quality of European trains is generally perfect.
There are a few variations though. In West Germany,
for example, the trains, and particularly the restrooms,
are clean enough to perform major surgery in. In southern
Italy we found the trains, and particularly the restrooms,
were nearly unfit to enter.
In all of our experiences, though, we found the trains
to be punctual and dependable. In West Germany, for
example, the crack IC (intercity) trains were so closely
timed that we would have about two minutes to change
trains. These trains, according to the conductor, travel at
about 120 mph. Our experiences in all of Europe proved
that if you count on a train running 10 or 15 minutes
late, you've counted wrong, and you better plan on wait
ing for the next departure.
The nicest thing about travel is that European trains
are somewhat like the main lounge in the Nebraska
Union. You can meet all kinds of people in them, find
travel partners, practice foreign languages, and sample
everyone else's cheese and wine.
Eurailpasses can be purchased only in the United
States, so buy one before you go overseas. The Internat
ional Educational Services in the Nebraska Union can
obtain them for you, as well as most travel agents.
Eurailpasses arc also very difficult to replace. Don't
be surprised to find people wearing them around their
necks.
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