38 - Sunday, November 6, 1988 - North Shore News

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BRITAIN OFFERS a variety of accomodations at a variety of prices. The Glenborrodale Castle in Argyll,

Scotland offers medieval! splendor.

MIX AND MATCH TRAVEL

Flights to Great Britain
becoming more affordable

NOT EVERYBODY thinks
of it that way, but tourism is
a business. Pundits say it is
fast becoming the biggest
business in the world, but of
course all that’s meaningless
to the couple from Ker-
risdale or the West Van-
couver widow who just likes
to take a carefree holiday
every year.

There are people, however,
whose business it is to entice as
many people as possible to their
neck of the woods, and one such
chap is a genial Briton called
Gareth James, the new Canadian
director of the British Tourist
Authority.

He has just been in Vancouver
extolling the joys of travel to Bri-
tain, although when he got back to
home base in Toronto he would
have at least one tale to tell of
Vancouver, for it happened that
on his first morning here, whiie
oul running at 7:15 in the morn-
ing, he was given a ticket for
jaywalking.

Of course that’s the joy of trav-
el, that when we spread our wings
and forsake our vanilla streets we
can encounter coppers who lie in
wait for jayjoggers. In Mexico you
can drive a bus through a red light
at rush hour and nobody cares;
here you jog through one soon
after dawn and you're in for the
high jump.

According to James about
600,000 Canadians go to Britain
every year, 88 per cent of whom
are independent travellers — that
is, people who rent a car and go as
they please,

He would obviously like to see
more of us crossing the pond, and
he makes the point that) price
should vot be a barrier, James,
who has just arrived in Canada
from Australia, noted that a
roundtrip ticket from Toronto to
London casts about $500, or
roughly a week's wages for the
average person.

Summer flights from Vancouver
to London were about double that
this year, but he still has a point at
owice the nrice (and don’t overlook
winter travel to Europe when fares
and everything else costs less, and
you're not going for the sun

anyway, even in summer).

So, says James, we should look
at travel to Britain with that
perspective. Aha, says you, but
what do we live on when we get
there? Well, you can stay with
Aunt Flo or Cousin George. Yes,
you can, but that can be a right
pain in the neck, as we’ve found
out, because you spend all your
time talking about the price of
butter and not really seeing what
you wanted to see.

The answer is not to stay with
relatives but to go where you really
want to go — Scotland or the Lake
District, for example — and tell
your relatives where and when
you'll be there and they can come
and visit. In other words you have
made the effort to fly 5,000 miles

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