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Friday, April 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Europe's best hotels selected
The Associated Press
The well known old European capital cities, London, Paris, and Rome are slowly regaining travel favor h
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Americans, and "Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report" provides a list of "enchanting" small hotels he describes as "well-managed, personalized properties nestled in uniquely private settings."
Harper is a pseudonym for the editor and publisher who travels the world incognito for a monthly newsletter directed primarily at top business executives with a median annual income of more than $200,000.
His choices as "1987 Hideaways of the Year" in Europe include these country house hotels:
Park Hotel Kenmare (Kenmare, Ireland)
Chewton Glen (New Milton, England)
Bodysgallen Hall (Llandudno,
Nales)
Arisaig House (Arisaig, Scotland)
La Reserve de Beauleieu (Beauleur-sur-Mer, France)
- Zurserhof (Zurs am Arlberg, Austria)
- Falsed Kro (Falsed, Denmark)
U Pellicano (Porto Ercole, Italy)
- Wald and Schlosshotel Friedrichs ruhe (near Ohringen, West Germany)
Pousada da Rainha Santa Isabel (Estremoz, Portugal)
"two urban sanctuaries" listed by Harper as best small hotels are the Plaza in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Hotel de Orangerie in Bruges.
Belgium.
His selections, he said, were based on service, charm, comfort, decor, food and "the intangible Q factor that separates the good from the truly enchanting."
Harper, who promotes his newsletter as "a connoisseur's guide to peaceful and unspoiled places," limits his circulation to about 15,000 and carries no advertising. He said his subscribers were willing to pay a premium "to get away from other people in a very crowded world."
In 1987, more than 6 million Americans visited Europe, about 18 percent more than the previous year, according to the European Travel Commission. ETC said it was the second best year ever for U.S. travel to Europe, topped only by the 6.4 million total of 1985.
Computer translates into 4 languages
The Associated Press
A new portable computer, appropriately called Voice,
can translate spoken English into one of four European
languages.
The computer, developed by Advanced Products and Technologies Inc., of Redmond, Wash., is voice-activated (there's no keyboard) and weighs less than 4 pounds. Depending on the cartridge being used, Voice converts 2,000 English phrases into French, German, Spanish or Italian for display on the screen.
talian for display on the screen.
The $1,500 device does not translate back into English
However, Steve Rondel, the manufacturer's president, said it did allow rudimentary communication without previous language study or the inconvenience of phrase books.
To operate the system, a traveler inserts two cartridges, one programmed to recognize the voice pattern of the user and the other supplying the translation.
or more, using other high-tech travel trays is a calculator called Travel Helper, from Sharp Electronics, that converts currency, tells time in two time zones and includes an alarm clock.
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