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138 | DESTINATION GUIDES More free monthly guides available at traveller.easyJet.com<br />
Jersey<br />
UK<br />
DIALLING CODE +44<br />
CURRENCY £<br />
FLY FROM<br />
Glasgow,<br />
Liverpool,<br />
London (SEN)<br />
FROM THE<br />
AIRPORT<br />
TAXI<br />
Pre-book your taxi<br />
at easyJet.com.<br />
A local taxi costs £16.<br />
Visit the Europcar<br />
desk for special<br />
easyJet rates.<br />
BON APPETIT<br />
UP TO €30 Dicq<br />
Shak (Dicq Slipway, St<br />
Helier, tel: 01534 730<br />
273) A local institution,<br />
the Dicq Shak is a<br />
cross between a beach<br />
café and an authentic<br />
Thai restaurant. You<br />
can sit on the sand<br />
and eat Thai stir-fried<br />
chicken with ginger.<br />
EXCLUSIVE St<br />
Brelade’s Bay Hotel<br />
(La Route de la Baie,<br />
tel: 01534 746 141)<br />
Refurbished by new<br />
owners, St Brelade’s<br />
Bay Hotel features<br />
an oak-panelled<br />
restaurant overlooking<br />
the bay. Head chef<br />
Franz Hacker uses<br />
fresh local ingredients,<br />
particularly fi sh.<br />
The pan-fried fi llet<br />
of local bass topped<br />
with sautéed tiger<br />
prawns or lemon<br />
sole and salmon with<br />
asparagus fi lling<br />
(£19.50) are delicious.<br />
AFTER DARK<br />
LATE & LIVELY<br />
Rojo’s (10 Bond Street,<br />
St Helier, tel: 01534 729<br />
904) A wine bar, tapas<br />
bar and restaurant,<br />
there’s always plenty<br />
going on at Rojo’s in the<br />
centre of St Helier.<br />
THIS MONTH<br />
GO Spring is the<br />
time to eat and walk<br />
in Jersey. There are<br />
special promotions<br />
in many restaurants<br />
and organised walks<br />
to see the countryside<br />
starting to blossom<br />
(Jersey Tourism,<br />
tel: 01534 448 800).<br />
NO WAY!<br />
Jersey’s banks look<br />
after more than £500<br />
billion belonging to<br />
people all over the<br />
world – that’s<br />
£5.2m for every local.<br />
Peter Body<br />
LOW KEY<br />
Grand Jersey (St<br />
Helier, tel: 01534<br />
722 301) The<br />
Champagne Lounge<br />
is the place for<br />
afternoon tea and<br />
a cup of Egyptian<br />
mint tea followed<br />
by a glass of bubbly.<br />
<br />
Kos<br />
Greece<br />
DIALLING CODE +30<br />
CURRENCY €<br />
FLY FROM<br />
London (LGW),<br />
Milan (MXP)<br />
FROM THE<br />
AIRPORT<br />
TAXI<br />
Pre-book your taxi<br />
at easyJet.com.<br />
A local taxi costs €38.<br />
Up to six buses<br />
depart from the<br />
airport to Kos Town.<br />
Tickets: €3.20.<br />
Visit the Europcar<br />
desk for special<br />
easyJet rates.<br />
BON APPETIT<br />
UP TO €30 Arap<br />
(Platani village, tel:<br />
22420 28442) The<br />
oldest and most<br />
established of four Kos-<br />
Turkish run tavernas<br />
around the square<br />
here, Arap is great<br />
fun to visit in a group,<br />
with everyone sharing<br />
mezze-sized platters of<br />
Anatolian specialities<br />
such as fried aubergine<br />
with yoghurt topping.<br />
EXCLUSIVE<br />
Ambeli (2.5km east<br />
of Tingaki beachfront,<br />
tel: 22420 69682)<br />
A well-loved rural<br />
taverna doing local<br />
specialities such as<br />
arnaki ambelourgou<br />
(vinter’s style lamb),<br />
pykhti (brawn) and<br />
yaprakia (stuff ed vine<br />
leaves), washed down<br />
with wine from the<br />
adjacent vineyard.<br />
AFTER DARK<br />
LOW KEY Aenaos<br />
(Platia Eleftherias)<br />
This little café, tucked<br />
into the base of the<br />
Defterdar Mosque,<br />
specialises in novelty<br />
hot chocolates, teas<br />
and coff ees, especially<br />
Greek coff ee made<br />
over hot sand. It also<br />
off ers unrivalled<br />
people-watching and<br />
a nice suntrap.<br />
LATE & LIVELY<br />
Hamam (1 Akti<br />
Kountourioti) This<br />
popular nightspot<br />
used to be a Turkish<br />
bath and some of<br />
the authentic interior<br />
still remains. The<br />
playlist encompasses<br />
everything from jazz<br />
and rock to more<br />
traditional Greek<br />
music. After midnight,<br />
the noise curfew<br />
moves everyone inside<br />
for live DJ sessions.<br />
THIS MONTH<br />
GO Paleo Pyli,<br />
17km south-east of<br />
Kos Town, was Kos’<br />
medieval, pirate-proof<br />
capital. Among the<br />
ruined houses are a few<br />
14th-century chapels,<br />
with the lowest<br />
one (Arhangelos)<br />
preserving frescoes.<br />
NO WAY!<br />
Western Kos is<br />
blanketed by volcanic<br />
tuff , deposited<br />
160,000 years ago by<br />
an underwater caldera.<br />
Marc Dubin<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Krakow<br />
Poland<br />
DIALLING CODE +48<br />
CURRENCY Zloty (PLN)<br />
FLY FROM<br />
Belfast (BFS),<br />
Bristol, Edinburgh,<br />
Liverpool, London<br />
(LGW), Paris (CDG)<br />
FROM THE<br />
AIRPORT<br />
TAXI<br />
Pre-book your taxi<br />
at easyJet.com.<br />
A local taxi costs<br />
about PLN80.<br />
Trains leave every<br />
30 minutes for<br />
the main station from<br />
4.24am–00.15am.<br />
Tickets: PLN6.<br />
BON APPETIT<br />
UP TO €30 Dynia<br />
(20 Ulica Krupnicza,<br />
tel: 012 430 0838)<br />
A sleek, contemporary<br />
space with a pumpkin<br />
fetish (Dynia means<br />
“pumpkin”), this<br />
popular haunt does<br />
a good range of<br />
large breakfasts.<br />
EXCLUSIVE Pod<br />
Aniolami (35 Ulica<br />
Grodzka, tel: 012 421<br />
3999) Service has<br />
been known to be<br />
changeable, but on a<br />
good day you’re onto<br />
a winner. Tried-andtested<br />
hits include the<br />
zurek soup and the<br />
“noblemen’s kebabs”.<br />
The covered courtyard<br />
is the obvious<br />
lunchtime choice, while<br />
by night the medieval<br />
cellars beckon.<br />
AFTER DARK<br />
LOW KEY Cafe<br />
Szafe (10 Ulica<br />
Felicjanek) With<br />
its series of open<br />
wardrobes and<br />
cheerily painted walls,<br />
this café might well<br />
have appealed to CS<br />
Lewis. A lot of beerdrinking<br />
gets done<br />
here. Very Cracovian.<br />
LATE & LIVELY<br />
Prozak (6 Plac<br />
Dominikanski, tel: 012<br />
429 1128) Located<br />
amid kebab shops,<br />
Prozak is a wellestablished<br />
den for<br />
committed clubbers.<br />
You’ll hear house,<br />
hip hop, dubstep and<br />
more, and meet plenty<br />
of young partiers.<br />
THIS MONTH<br />
SEE Culture vultures<br />
can enjoy such<br />
varied events this<br />
month as the Krakow<br />
Reggae Festival (9–10<br />
March) and the 17th<br />
Nationwide Festival<br />
of Animated Films<br />
(OFAFA) from the<br />
22nd–24th.<br />
NO WAY!<br />
A Portuguese historian<br />
named Manuel Rosa<br />
recently advanced the<br />
theory that celebrated<br />
explorer Christopher<br />
Columbus was in fact<br />
the son of a Polish King.<br />
Columbus’ alleged<br />
grandpa, King Ladislas<br />
II, is entombed in<br />
Wawel Cathedral.<br />
Nick Hodge/<br />
cracow-life.com
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