Free tours through Russian capital

Anybody interested can take a look at Moscow down-town sights during an absolutely free 50-minute walking tour that will take place on Saturdays and Sundays at 11 and 12 a.m. http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1364/index.html

No talking on board

A year after they were authorised, the use of mobile phones aboard planes remains very limited in Europe, with only 27 planes equipped to allow them, the European Commission said Thursday http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1354/index.html

Third Russian capital

The Service of intellectual property, patents and labels considered the requests of Nijniy Novgorod and Kazan for a right to be called “third Russian capital”, and pledged in favor of Tatarstan http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1357/index.html

A new dress for Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is to get a fresh coat of brown paint for its 120th birthday, but will stay open to the public throughout the 18-month makeover, operators said Tuesday.

Two dozen mountaineer-painters will coat the Paris monument in 60 tonnes of environmentally-friendly paint, in a specially-mixed hue called "Eiffel Tower Brown" chosen to blend well with the city landscape http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1349/index.html

No fee raise in the Hermitage

Under the conditions of the global economic crisis the Hermitage will not raise the price for tickets and will keep the social programs http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1340/index.html

French tourists in Yamal tundra

Tourists from France have gone on a tour "Spring on peninsula Yamal" (Yamal-Nenets autonomous region). Visitors from France have already started to get acquainted with traditional economic-cultural circle of Yamal area aboriginals of tundra http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1339/index.html

Island caretaker 'dream job' wildcard announced by Tourism Queensland

A Taiwanese interpreter has blitzed her competitors to score a wild-card entry to Queensland's "dream job" competition http://www.tour-life.com/p122/l1323/index.html