The Deptford Lads' Essentials

Here we have assembled some essential on-line travel resources. These are the website that we use most often when planning our holidays. This page is always under development!

Guides | Transport | Accomodation | Weather | CyberCafés | Currency | Diplomatic | Language

On-line Guides

Lonely Planet on-line - Europe

Excite Travel - Europe

Yahoo! Travel - Europe

Rough Guide to Travel

Time Out

Fodor's Travel Online

MSN Expedia UK

Airlines:

• British Airways
• British Midland
• Malmö Aviation
• SAS

• Railtrack: Travel Information (UK)
• Eurostar
• Deutsche Bahn - Timetable (German Railways)
• DSB (Danish Railways)
• NS (Netherlands Railways)
• CD (Czech Railways)
• SJ (Swedish Railways)
• VR (Finnish Railways)
• Eesti Raudtee (Estonian Railways)
• October Railways (in Russian/Cyrillic)
• Russian Railway Ring
• The European Railway Server
• Rail Europe
• North York Moors Railway

• Scandinavian Seaways (North Sea)
• Scandlines (Baltic)
• Viking Line (Baltic) (in Swedish)
• Silja Line (Baltic)

Accommodation Search Engine (ASE)
WebStar - Hotel Serach Engine (Off-line until mid 1999, apparently!)

Yahoo! Business and Economy:Companies:Travel:Lodging:Hotels

Directories

Yahoo! Weather Europe
BBC Online - Weather Centre - World Weather - Europe
CNN Weather - Europe Forecasts
Intellicast World Weather - Europe
Accu Weather - International: Europe
US National Weather Service - World Wide: Current Weather

National Weather Services:

• Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
• Meteo France
• Hungarian Meteorological Service
• Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (IRM/KMI)
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
• UK Met Office
• US National Weather Service (NWS)

Astronomical Information:

• Deptford Lads' Daylight Page
  Use the forms on this page to look-up sun and moon data for any given day anywhere in the world.
• US Naval Observatory's Astronomical Applications Department

Other Weather Links

• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
• Yahoo! Science/Earth Sciences/Meteorology/Institutes

• Internet Café Guide - menu
• EuroCyberCafes
• Europe - Curious Cat Travel Books Cyber Cafe Guide
• traveltales.com Cybercafes
• Cyber Café Guide version 13.0
• The Cybercafe Search Engine
• The Cyber*Star Network - cafelocate
• Yahoo! Business and Economy:Companies:Internet Services:Internet Cafes
  • Complete Listing
  • Indices

Currency

• Deptford Lads' Currency Page
  • Pop-Up Currency Calculator
• The Universal Currency Converter (tm)
• Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance - Currency Conversion

Diplomatic

• UK Foreign Office
  • Travel Advice
  • Directory of British Diplomatic Missions
    • British Embassy - Estonia
    • British Embassy - Finland
      • British Embassy Helsinki
    • British Embassy Budapest
    • British Diplomatic Missions - Russian Federation
    • British Embassy - Sweden
      • British Embassy - Stockholm
• Yahoo! Foreign Embassies and Consulates (in the UK)
  • The Estonian Embassy in London

Language

• Yahoo! Reference: Dictionaries: Language
• English-Estonian Dictionary
• Swedish-English Dictionary
• Cyrillic for MS Windows Netscape
  (instructions for installing cyrillic fonts)

Essentials: Guides | Transport | Accomodation | Weather | CyberCafés | Currency | Diplomatic | Language

24/02/99