Eating and drinking in Europe is sightseeing for your taste buds. Every country has local specialties that are good, memorable or both. Here are many of the fun experiences that stick in my mind after 30 years of travel. Seek out any of these on your next trip. • In the Netherlands, try a rijsttafel (rice [...]

I found the following article with the above title, by Milan Korcok, editor of Travelinsurancefile.com, a Canadian website, of sufficient interest to get permission to reprint it in ITN, as follows. “Travel insurance can’t protect you everywhere in this dangerous world. You need to check out your destination — and don’t take anything for granted — [...]

by Julie Skurdenis (Second of two parts) Early in our January ’09 trip to El Salvador, my husband, Paul, and I visited four of the country’s major archaeological sites: Joya de Cerén, San Andrés, Tazumal and Casa Blanca. We saved Cihuatán for last. Cihuatán is special in many ways. It is El Salvador’s largest archaeological site, spreading [...]