| How would you like a trip to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Poland, ... and South Africa ... with Australia thrown in, as well?
Best of all - the cost is the cheapest available - zero. Brought to you courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
If you have a computer with internet capability - which you obviously do! But you need one more thing - soundcard and speakers attached.
Canada's national broadcaster carries programs from the national radio of each of those countries daily.
Chief drawback - you must stay up most all night: it's only available between 1:05 - 6:00 a.m. daily.
But you can easily do that - you don't have to go to work tomorrow, so you can sleep when you like and get up when it suits you. Can you beat that?
All you have to do is go to www.cbc.ca and follow up "radio", then "overnight". Try www.cbc.ca/radio/overnight
A wealth of interesting material is carried.
Radio Germany has a monthly contest, first prize a short-wave radio and other prizes - last month's question was, "What famous leader said, 'Ich bin ein Berliner!' ('I am a Berliner!'), to which the answer, of course, was John F. Kennedy.
Also - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has a nation-wide phone-in program weekly on Sunday 4:05 - 6:00 p.m., Eastern time, dealing with a variety of interesting topics. There's a forum that goes at the same time, in case you lack soundcard and speakers. I think that you can look up the topics and comments on the forums carried in earlier weeks if you go to www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup or something like that. If you go to the radio portion of the website you can find it.
Have (a) good trip(s)!
joyfulguy/Ed | 
