M40間諜米格魯的秘密日誌

從土耳其要到希臘的 Rhodes, 目前有三個選擇：

1. Marmaris - Rhodes

2. Fethiye - Rhodes

3. Bodrum - Rhodes (請注意：這條航線在往年只有在旺季5月-9月底航行，每週只有2個航班。如果售票情形不理想，則會把航班取消。而今年的航行時間尚未完全確定，是否有可能取消航線，請事先查閲 http://www.feribot.net/feribot/  訂票網站）

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1. Marmaris - Rhodes ：這是班次最多，也最受旅客歡迎的路線。

在冬季時只能够從 Marmaris 搭渡輪出發。如果是在夏季，旅客們也可以選擇從 Fethiye 搭乘快艇直達 Rhodes.

Café Pastéis de Belém is often credited as the place where the famous pastel de nata (egg tart) was first commercially produced outside of its original home inside the Jeronimos Monastery a few steps away. The creamy pastry came to be known as pasteis de Belem, after the name of the suburb and that of the famous bakery. This quintessential Portugese dessert attained global prominence in the 1990s in Asia after its inclusion in the standard dessert menu of popular western fast-food chain such as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Nowadays, many in Asia have come to equate the egg tart with certain bakeries in Macau, a former Portugese colony which had contributed a great deal to the popularity of Belem egg tarts in Asia.

The Casa Pasteis de Belem is now a major tourist attraction in its own right. Customers, both local and from elsewhere in Portugal and abroad, sometimes have to queue for hours in order to get their hands on freshly baked egg tarts, still steamingly hot, directly from the oven.

Egg tarts apart, the bakery itself is a place worth visiting. Beautiful blue tiles adorn the walls of the cafe and the spacious dining hall. Decorative motifs, figures depicting famous historical personalities and places all add a touch of congenial elegance to the whole place.

Cascais is a popular seaside resort just an hour away from Lisbon by train. The town is most famous for its grand casino, sandy beaches and elegant yacht marinas. On weekends, the tree-lined streets of this quaint little town are full of expensive sportcars and sedans, while tourists from all over Europe stroll around the town centre and enjoy their day out in the sun.

The presence of long swathes of soft white sandy beaches, crystal clear water and sunny blue sky all help to consolidate the position of Cascais as the leading resort of Portugal. Just take a quick walk around the town centre and it is immediately evident to anyone that this is a place for the well-heeded and the famous. Stylish shops and boutiques adorn the sides of the seaside boulevards, while posh hotels, cafes and restaurants all cluster around the centre of the old town doing brisk business.

The town centre has a distinctively Portugese feel, with mozaic-pattern on all streets, small double-story churches with belfry, and an open town square directly facing the beach and the sea. 

雖然題目寫的是有關到土耳其旅遊保險的問題，不過以下的經驗與建議也適用於到任何歐盟國家旅遊的觀光客。

申辦土耳其簽証時，雖然不必附上海外旅遊保險証明，但是我強力建議各位有意去歐洲和土耳其自助旅行的人，一定要在出發之前，購買足夠的海外旅遊保險，以應付任何在海外旅遊期間所可能發生的意外狀況。這是因為許多人都有錯誤的觀念，以為台灣的健保也可以給付在海外的醫藥費用﹔其實這是不完全正確的。台灣的健保，只給付最基本的費用，大約台幣一千多到三千多左右，其他超額部分一概要自己負擔。但是三千多台幣在許多國家如美國，德國，日本等等，根本連最基本掛號看醫生打針吃藥的錢都不夠，更不要說什麼照X光片或住院費用了。如果一旦不幸有人在海外旅遊期間發生嚴重車禍，需要動手術開刀與長期住院治療的話，健保那點錢根本不能做什麼。沒有買其他保險公司提供的海外旅遊意外險的話，只要一個小車禍或小意外，就有可能要讓你傾家蕩產，陪上好幾百萬或更多。

My first visit to Lisbon was more than a decade ago, when this city of more than a million inhabitants was still a largely under-developed town on the outermost fringe of Europe, consisting of numerous suburban slums and an extremely rundown city centre. At that time I thought Lisbon is easily the most dilapildated and impoverished European city I have ever seen. In fact, Lisbon in the 1980s and 90s was probably closer in terms of its standards of living to the sprawling multi-million metropoles in the developing countries in Latin America and Asia than its counterparts in western Europe. In those time, no matter where you went in the city centre, there were so many deserted houses and apartments with broken windows, sealed doors, graffiti all over place, dirty streets littered with rubbish and empty plastic bottles, that you thought you were somewhere in the middle of some impoverished third-world countries.

But things have changed for the better since then. Lisbon now is a bustling city wth a well-organized metro system, efficient public transport, lively city centre, with many former slums cleaned up and rundown buildings in downtown areas sanitized and renovated. The whole city now looks and smells much better, and this spirit of rejuvenating growth could be felt all over the place. Lisbon is no longer a decaying city slowly crumbling down in the sunset, but a lively metropole with lots of tradition, history and heritage sufficient to attract a growing crowd of admirers from all over the world.

現在台灣人去申根國不必事先申辦簽證了，但是這並不代表在入境時就什麽都不必帶：相反的，入境任何申根國時，切記必須隨身帶著以下證明，以免在移民官問話時，拿不出這些證明文件而被遣返。請注意：海關不一定會問話﹔他們有問話是正常，沒問話是算你運氣好，他們懶得理你﹔但是一旦他們決定問你話，而你又拿不出來他們所要求的文件時，那麼事情就大條了。所以還是有備無患比較安全。

入境申根国时所需隨身出示的证明包括：

1. 回程機票 （Return Ticket) 或者離開申根國地區之續程機票（Onward Tickets)

目前土耳其國内，有以下幾間廉價航空公司：

A) 從伊斯坦堡 Ataturk 機場起飛的有：

1. Atlasjet    http://www.atlasjet.com

這是一間相當不錯的航空公司，主要股東是土耳其旅遊業知名公司 ETS Tur. 雖然國内航線不多， 但他們有提供從 Istanbul Ataturk 機場（IST) 直飛 Izmir, Antalya, Dalaman, Bodrum, Adana, 北塞普路斯的 Lefkosa, 以及伊拉克北部庫爾德族自治區的 Erbil, Sulemaniye 等城市。

常常三不五時就會有人在旅遊論壇上問：請問土耳其那幾間巴士公司比較好？有那幾間是值得推薦的？
每次看到這種問題，就很想搖頭。爲什麽？因爲問這種問題，並沒有太大的意義。老實說，就算我列出‘土耳其前十大巴士公司排行榜’，並且每個月更新一次，對普通自助旅行的外籍遊客還是沒有什麽太大的幫助。

爲什麽會沒有太大的幫助呢？原因很簡單：

想要在德國享受Tax Free/VAT Refund 退稅服務的觀光客，必須遵守以下規定：

1. 想退稅的觀光客必須持有非歐盟護照，並且其長期居住地是位在歐盟(European Union)以外的國家。

持有非歐盟護照,但是居住在歐盟境內工作或讀書者，不能享受德國/歐盟之退稅服務。
在英國和愛爾蘭居住超過三個月以上的持非歐盟護照之觀光客，可能無法享受退稅服務（除非他們能夠提供六個月之內不再返回英國或愛爾蘭居住的證據）。

前幾天在西班牙逛街時，看到一個包包外型還挺好看的，價錢是稍微貴了一點，但是勉強還可接受。正打不定主意到底要不要下手的時候，順口問了售貨小姐一句：
“請問這個包包是哪裏做的？”

其實我的意思是，這個包包的生産地在哪一個國家？大概是我的西班牙文太爛的緣故，售貨員以爲我要問的是：這個包包是哪一個國家的牌子？

“意大利！”她說。

在意大利逛街原本應該是一件遐意的事，不過這幾年來，因爲那幾個主要景點大城市觀光客爆多的緣故，大多數市中心的商家都變得超級市儈，一副要買不買隨便你的態度，所以爲了不讓自己花錢還得看人臉色，再加上威尼斯這些地方賣的幾乎都是一些只有觀光客才會買的東西，了無新意，現在如果想去意大利買東西，都是選擇去一些比較不那麽觀光化的城市，不但店員服務好很多，有個性的新秀設計師工作室和賣一些獨立品牌的小店也多很多，逛起街來也比較有意思。

我發現，意大利人不論男女，都是很注重裝扮的民族(說難聽一點就是外貌協會）。所以如果想要在意大利逛街時，受到店員有禮貌的待遇，一定要注意下列幾點：

1. 人要衣裝，佛要金裝：請穿的像樣一點再出門。不需要滿身名牌（這樣子他們反而認爲你是俗氣暴發戶），但是一定要整齊有時尚感。就算是穿球鞋也要穿得有格調。