Polly Evans quirkily adventures, online

I met Polly Evans - a successful author of chick-travelling Lit - in Sarajevo, in the back of a people carrier en route to a gala dinner held by the Bosnia and Herzegovina tourist board. We were off to celebrate British Airways' new flight from Gatwick to the Bosnian capital and to learn more about this emerging eastern European destination.

Polly has now launched her own website and it's a good one to watch for inspiration as well as news of her recent travels.

No doubt she'll soon be adding posts soon on her latest book Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman, in which she shares trial and tribulations of driving sled dogs in Canada's Yukon Territory. Published by Bantam Books, £7.99 on Feb 11th.

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Mona Lisa Museum Pass turns 20

En Juin 2008, le Paris Museum Pass fêtera son 20e anniversaire ... it's no wonder that this particular tourist pass - first sold in 1988 - is still going strong.

Time spent queuing up for numerous galleries and musuems will take up valuable snogging/shopping/vin rouge swilling time during a city break in the French capital. So before parting with those euros for un sandwich au jambon, you're first purchase should be the Paris Musueum Pass.

Organising a suprise romantic weekender? Buy your passes in advance - click here - to have your beau falling into bed at the end of the day's sightseeing, amazed at your sauve city-savvy.

Good for 2, 4 or 6 days' culture-vulturing, the Pass will have you queue jumping and bypassing ticket booths at famous cultural must-visits ranging from the Louvre to the Château de Versailles.

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2-day pass costs 30euros
4-days 45euros
6-days 60euros

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