Turiki Int Co.

Just wanted to give heads up on two web-sites for airfares that I have been using lately.

First one is bt-store.com , they are consolidators themselves and quite often have very good prices for International travel, especially to Europe, I’ve been constantly finding better deals on it than on kayak.com  and they let you search +/- 3 days and also one-way prices are actually normally, unlike in most other places, where they charge you twice the round-trip ticket price.

The other site is cfares.com, but do not got their membership, I head it’s worthless… but the search is great, I’ve been finding prices about $100 cheaper than on kayak.com, but similar prices as at bt-store.com… the strangest thing is that they mostly search the same places, as kayak.com (I’ve seen good prices at orbitz.com and vayama.com from cfares.com), but somehow they get better deals - maybe they know what they are doing and find better (cheaper) routes …

The last thing I wanted to try is OAG Flights, which is a paid service, but they claim they search the most routes … but they never got back to me on free trial, so I never got to try them… and couldn’t find any reviews, though they do look professional

Time to make a nice web-site … soon to come : )

I just read about a promotion that Starbucks with AT&T are running: if you are using your starbucks card at least once a month (be that a refill or a purchase), you can register with it for AT&T WiFi access at Starbucks and get up to 2 free hours each day. Sounds good to me : )

Here are the details at Strabucks.com

In July we (me and my friends from Russia) are going for a motorcycle trip around Europe. But since I crashed my beloved Kawasaki ZX-9R in November and did not have time nor ability to buy and arrange for a shipment of a new one, I decided to rent one, the difference of renting vs. bringing my own is not as much as the headache I would have (Though, if I had spare money, I would definitely buy one here and bring it there, since I like to explore new issues, like shipping stuff overseas).

Well, long story short, I looked around a lot for a good rental. Similarities between different rental agencies:

• Large deposit (like $2,000)
• High prices
• Many offer with limited mileage
• Many did not have insurance for all the countries that I wanted to visit.
• Most rent out BMWs (that’s not an issue, but I still would love different bikes, like Honda CBR1100XX! : )) )

What I needed:

• Rent for a long time (about a month)
• Large mileage
• Comfortable for two
• Bike with decent power (more than 600cc)
• Nice looking bike
• Many countries to visit, including such as Croatia and even maybe Poland, Belarus

There are a lot of places that rent out bikes, many BMW dealerships do it, here are few places to look:

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First I need to get from some Baltic states (that are close to Belarus) to Stockholm on a motorcycle by a ferry and then we need to take a ferry from somewhere around Bergen to Denmark (so we won’t have to drive all over there and can sleep and drink on the ferry )

The major players in Baltic sea are:

Scandlines

Route map

Prices

Times

Polferries

The routes that they operate on are:

Gdańsk-Nynäshamn

Świnoujście - Ystad

Świnoujście - Kopenhaga

Świnoujście - Rønne

Tallink / Silja Line

Major routes:

Stokholm-Helsinki

Stokholm-Turku

Stokholm-Tallinn

Stokholm-Riga

Rostock-Helsinki

Helsinki-Tallinn

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