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Archive for May, 2005
Restaurants in Turin
Travelers to Turin, Italy, who stay at the Holiday Inn Express will find a clean, modern, comfortable hotel at a reasonable price (€75, or about $97.50, per night for two, including a lavish breakfast), but it is located rather a ways from the center of town and in a neighborhood surprisingly bereft of restaurants, trattorias [...]Re ‘credit hold’ on a cruise
Editor’s note: The following letter refers to the January ’05 “Cruising World” column in which Dr. Lew Toulmin wrote about a woman who, in advance of a cruise, objected to signing a document authorizing the line to put a “hold” of a certain amount on her credit card to ensure there was sufficient credit to [...]Western Scotland
On a trip to lesser-known territory of the U.K, Sept. 11-24, ’04 (April ’05, pg. 16), my travels took me to western Scotland. I made the journey from Douglas, Isle of Man, to Belfast, Northern Ireland, by the Steam Packet Company fast catamaran at a prebooked fare of £14.70 (near $28). Since I had no prebooked [...]The Turkish bath experience
The Cagaloglu Hamami (Turkish bath) is the oldest bath in Istanbul — over 300 years old — and I arrived at about 3 o’clock one afternoon in July ’04 after a day of sightseeing and shopping in the Grand Bazaar. First things first. The hamami is not a spa. It smells a little musty (think hundreds [...]Cruising along the fjord-filled coast of Norway
by Patricia Arrigoni, Fairfax, CA It was 4:30 in the morning and I had been up since 3 a.m. My natural time clock was completely confused by the bright sunshine pouring through my cabin window, for I was in the Land of the Midnight Sun in northern Norway. It had taken me four days and four flights [...]Scotland with Rabbie’s Trail Burners
We would second the recommendation (Aug. ’04, pg. 67) of Rabbie’s Trail Burners (207 High St., Edinburgh EH1 1PE, Scotland; phone + [0] 44 131 226 3133 or visit www.rabbies. com). We took the 5-day/4-night trip which include Iona, Mull and the Isle of Skye, June 14-18, ’04, and had a wonderful experience viewing the [...]Bhutan with Lingkor Tours & Treks
We took a most memorable 8-day tour of Bhutan in September ’04, thanks to the efforts of Lingkor Tours & Treks (P.O. Box 202, Thimphu, Bhutan; phone 975-2-323417, fax 975-2-323402, e-mail trepatsang@aol.com or visit www.lingkor.com). A Buddhist monk referred us to Lingkor and through e-mail we set up a customized itinerary with Tenga at Lingkor [...]Japan with General Tours
I want to thank all the ITN readers who answered my “Person to Person” request for tips regarding an economical way to visit Japan. I chose General Tours (53 Summer St., Keene, NH 03431; phone 800/221-2216 or visit www. generaltours.com) and took their 9-day “Japan Sampler” tour, Sept. 18-26, ’04. Tokyo, Hakone (for Mt. Fujiyama), Osaka [...]Uruguay with Elderhostel
“Uruguay’s Colorful Birds and Gracious People” was a fine trip which my husband, Don, and I took with Elderhostel (11 Ave. de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111; phone 877/426-8056 or visit www.elderhostel.org), Nov. 4-16, ’04. Though we are not serious birders, this was a chance to get away from the cities and into the countryside, primarily the [...]Hiking Hadrian’s Wall with UK Contours Walking Holidays
United Kingdom Contours Walking Holidays (Gramyre, 3 Berrier Rd., Greystoke, CA11 0UB, United Kingdom; phone +44 [0] 17684 80451 or visit www. contours.co.uk) handled the arrangements when my husband and I hiked the new Hadrian’s Wall Path from Tynemouth (on the North Sea) to Bowness on Solway Firth, April 3-11, ’04. Officially it is 84 [...]
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