Cheapest flights to Austin, Texas

Austin spreads about twenty miles north-south and eighteen miles east-west, severed by I-35 (between Dallas and San Antonio) to the east. The Colorado River runs south of downtown. Flights come in at the tasteful Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (tel 512/530-2242). Eight miles southeast of downtown at the intersection of highways 71 and 183, it takes about twenty minutes to get downtown by taxi (Yellow Checker Cabs; tel 512/472-1111; around $25) or by SuperShuttle vans (tel 512/258-3826, ; $11) while the #100 bus runs approximately once an hour to the campus and downtown (Mon-Fri 5am-11pm, Sat 7am-11pm, Sun 8am-10.30pm) for a bargain fare of 50¢.

The recently opened Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, at Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and North Congress Avenue should satisfy anyone's curiosity for Texas arcana. Exhibits include the diary of Stephen F. Austin, generally considered the founder of the state, and a Bible that saved the life of Sam Houston Jr, during the Civil War; a bullet is still lodged in its pages (Mon-Sat 9am-6pm; $5). The Elisabet Ney Museum at 304 E 44th St is a German-influenced castle-like building in a leafy, historic residential area. It preserves the last studio, with marquettes and finished marbles, of Austin's most celebrated sculptor (Wed-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm; free).

The Austin Museum of Art is in the process of relocating from its Laguna Gloria location, at 3809 W 35th St, to a permanent facility downtown, scheduled to open in 2004. In the meantime, many exhibits are on view at a separate downtown location, at 823 Congress Ave (Tues-Sat 10am-6pm, Thurs until 8pm, Sun noon-5pm; $3; tel 512/495-9224, ).

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