Customers who arrive by bicycle at Berlin's Maison d'Envie will receive a five-euro ($7, £4.30) discount on the usual fee of 70 euros.

The discount also applies to those who can prove they took public transport to get there, owner Thomas Goetz said.

The 'OV-chipkaart'(public transport chip card) has been introduced recently for public transport, an electronic method of payment for the entire public transport system in The Netherlands. The 'OV-chipkaart' is a plastic card the size of a bank card. The card contains a chip and you pass it by a card by a scanner on the way in. The cards are available on the tram for purchase.

What grinds our nuts is that when purchasing a single fare, for the new price of 2.60€ (!!!), a woefull attempt to take the sting out of the 1€ increase is made by labeling the card as a 1 hour pass. This gives you just enough time to ride to your destination, do your shopping (quickly), then, when endeavouring to take the return tram, discovering that it has just expired. So another 2.60€ is required. Why not dispence with the sham 1 hour transit pass rubbish, or give a more realistic amount of time---2 hours, for example.

Okay maybe there are a few things, but after viewing some of these ladies, our mind has gone blank.

Georgia Jones:, 1, 2, 3

Veronica Ricci: 1, 2, 3

Jana Jordan: 1, 2, 3

An in depth news story (video) that ran recently, with English subtitles:

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ATHENS, Ga. — The search for a University of Georgia professor suspected of fatally shooting his wife and two men shifted away from this campus town Monday as the FBI revealed that he has a plane ticket for the Netherlands for Saturday and left behind an empty passport wallet.

George Zinkhan has not been seen since the shootings at a community theater near campus Saturday, and law enforcement agencies nationwide are searching for him, authorities said. He travels frequently to Amsterdam and has family in Austin, officials have said.

Authorities say they don't know what motivated the shootings.

As classes resumed Monday on the campus where Zinkhan, a marketing professor, had taught since the 1990s, the university announced that he had been fired. As a precaution, university police carried assault rifles as they patrolled on foot, but University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said investigators believe Zinkhan has left Athens, which is 70 miles east of Atlanta.

Delta Air Lines confirmed that he has a ticket to Amsterdam, FBI Special Agent Gregory McClendon said in an affidavit as part of a criminal complaint accusing Zinkhan of flight to avoid prosecution.