News on Cheap Cruises: 23 October 2005

Movies: Cheap seats
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (A) Candy man Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) reopens his chocolate factory to five lucky visitors. With Freddie Highmore. Rated PG, 115 min.
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SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM GERMANY
MUNICH, Germany -- Outside the train window, bare tree branches wore a rock-candy coating of ice. Field furrows curving into view were planted ankle deep in snow. Now and then, there'd be a bird of prey surveying its kingdom against a glare of gray sky.
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Woodie fans' passion ingrained
The drive from Henry Trulson's home to Moonlight Beach is just five miles, but his journey to the Wavecrest Woodie Meet, held at that beach in Encinitas, Calif., began in 1965. That's when he bought his first wood-body station wagon, a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster that he drove to high school and, with his surfboard, to the beach.
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Spirit III's dire straits
THE struggling Spirit of Tasmania III ferry service to Sydney will never be profitable unless it is 90 per cent full on all voyages, with each passenger paying more than $385 one-way.
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