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J2 The Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, June 22, 1991 Travel Time visiting art galleries can be highlight of holiday Aerocar rolling out of business "Ti zm TONY LOFARO Citizen staff Bus loses Mirabel run TRAVEL NOTES erocar rolls out on its last run 1 a June 30. The luxury "1 motorcoach, which transported passengers from downtown Otta to the route, the company plans to add a third Ottawa departure by Sept. 1. Buses from Ottawa now leave at noon and 4 p.m. A "modest" fare increase is also expected this fall, he added.

Travelling with kids School is almost out and summer holidays with the kids are coming up. For many parents, it may simply mean deciding where to go and how much money to spend. But the choices are not as easy for single parents. In many cases, their travel options are limited, and they often must pay a single supplement fee even with their children in tow most trips are based on two adults sharing a room. Let's Take The Kids Travel on Elgin Street has come up with three fully escorted mini-trips geared for single-parent families.

"These trips really come from our clients, who have been telling us they want to see this kind of thing," said Warna Roa, who is running the trips in conjunction with ETS, a Hamilton agency. Because of the many activities on the itinerary, the trips are best suited for children aged seven and up. Tours are limited to about 35 persons and our persons can share a room. The tours include: TorontoNiagara, July 15-19, return transportation, four nights accommodation, four continental breakfasts and admission to many attractions (Wonderland, Metro Zoo), Boston, July 23-26, transportation, three nights accommodation, admission to several attractions (New England Aquarium, four-hour whale-watching excursion), Quebec City, Aug. 6-9, transportation, three nights accommodation, admission to La Citadelle, eve- from 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. and on Wednesdays until 10 p.m. Admission: adults $5, seniors $4, students, 16 and over $3. Wednesdays free admission. New York Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Tiie Armenberg Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through to Oct.

13. Publisher Walter Annenberg gathered a startling array of paintings by Monet Van Gogh, Cezanne and other masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street; (212) 879-5500. Admission is $6 U.S. for adults, $3 for students and seniors, free for members and children under 12 accompanied by an adult.

Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 9:30 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Los Angeles High and how: Modern Art and Popular Culture, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, June 23 through Sept. 15. The Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand (213) 626-6222. Admission is $4 U.S.

and $2 for seniors and students. One ticket admits you to the museum and its ad-jun facility, The Temporary Contempo-raiy, 152 N. Central Ave. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

daily except Mondays. Free from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Chicago Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Art Institute of Chicago, June 22 through Sept.

8. The Art Institute. Michigan Avenue and Adams Street; (312) 443-3600. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays through Fridays; 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to p.m.

Sundays and holidays. Tickets are available at the door, $6 for adults, $3 for seniors, students with IDs and children aged 6 to 14 Tuesdays are free. Citizen staff and new services Sometimes the best travel bargains are found in art galleries where a trip to Japan or the Arctic or back in time to the roaring twenties or classic cr biblical periods can be done in less than a day. Here's a guide to some shows in Canada and the U.S.: Ottawa A Primal Spirit Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors at the National Gallery until Sept. 22 was jointly organized by the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex (990-1985). Hours until Sept 2, Saturday to Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Open on statutory holidays. Admission is free on Thursdays and every day for children under 16 years of age. Other times adults $4.50, seniors and students $3, families $9. Montreal The blockbuster exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The 1920s: The Age of the Metropolis, which continues until Nov. 10, shows the roots of modern culture with its massive display of cars, airplanes, architectural plans, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1379 Sherbrooke St. (514) 285-1600, open seven days a week from 10 am. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 am. to 9 p.m.

Admission is adults $12, students and seniors $5, children 12 and under $1. To reserve three weeks in advance, call (514285-1600 extension 177. Quebec City In Quebec City at the Musee du Quebec, three suites of Chagall prints from the National Gallery collection will be on view from July 24-Sept. 29. The Musee du Quebec is located in the Park of the Plains of Abraham.

Open daily until Labor Day ning boat cruises, For more information, call 594-5633. Add-ons: After some delays, Jes Air the new Bulgarian airline, is set to take off Sunday night at 11 p.m. on its inaugural flight from Ottawa to Sofia, Bulgaria. The airline had been scheduled to begin May 26. But Congress Travel, a local agency co-ordinating the flights, admits it did not have enough time to get the airline off the ground properly.

By mid-week, 54 passengers had booked space on the inaugural flight. Jes Air plans Sunday and Wednesday evening departures to Sofia. Carleton Travel and Goway Travel present Holidays of a Lifetime, an evening devoted to escorted tours to Australia, New Zealand and the Orient, Wednesday at the Hellenic Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Dr. The evening, which begins at 7:30, includes a slide show, door prizes and refreshments. Admission is free.

Call 824-9142. Do you have a tip, recommendation about a great destination or complaint about a travel firm? If so, call Tony Lofaro at 596-3724 or write to Travelnotes, The Living Department, The Ottawa Citizen, Box 5020, 1 101 Baxter Ottawa, Ont. K2C 3M4. wa to Mirabel Airport, is winding down after almost seven months of operation. It provided passengers with luxury motorcoach transportation featuring wide, comfortable seats, on-board video entertainment, three departures daily from the Lord Elgin Hotel and a home-pickup service.

It competed head-to-head with Voyageur, which has operated the same route since 1975. -Aeroear's one-way fare was $20, and return fare $40, compared to Voya-geur's one-way fare of $14. 'Ken Birch, Aerocar general manager, said the service had grabbed a good share of the market But Transport Canada, which controls Mirabel operations, put out a tender for exclusive rights to the route. Voyageur won and Aerocar had no choice but to drop its Service, even though it had a licence to continue for four more years. Birch said that after June 30, he'll have a van pick up at Mirabel all Aer-oqar passengers who have already pur chased return tickets to Ottawa.

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