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Archive for September, 2005
Seniors at the wheel
I read the article on seniors and car rentals in the July ’05 “Discerning Traveler” column. Another car rental agency on the European continent is Sixt GmbH & Co. (Zugspitzstr. 1, 82049 Pullach, Germany; phone 888/749-8227, 877/474-2566 or +49 [0] 89 7 44 44 0 or visit www.e-sixt.com). When we motored Portugal for two weeks in 2002, [...]Check your passport
We have a trip to Russia planned in a few months and I just found out that to visit Russia a visa is needed and there must be two blank pages in the visa section of one’s passport. Mine is full. Pages can be added, but the passport has to be returned and it can take [...]Dual citizenship
I read Dr. Wagenaar’s article about having a second passport (April ’05, pg. 102). I have two passports: American and British. I got mine through birth and parentage; I don’t think it’s worth the cost to actively seek out a second one. Generally, the utility of having two passports is being able to choose between them [...]Allow cell phone use on planes?
Knowing that lawmakers are considering allowing cell phones to be used on planes, in the July ’05 issue (page 122) Rich Harvey of Athens, Ohio, asked if anyone else was opposed to the idea. Several readers replied, as follows. Cell phone use on planes? NO, NO, a thousand times NO! It’s bad enough that passengers can [...]Driving in Italy
For a November ’04 trip in Italy (July ’05, pg. 55), we short-leased (this is different from a rental) a brand-new Peugeot 407 from Auto France (Wood-Ridge, NJ; 800/572-9655 or www.autofrance.net) for a total cost of $1,329 for 18 days, and that cost was comparable to a straight rental. The cost would have been $310 [...]Visit to Israel and Jordan
Five women and I spent two weeks in Israel and Jordan in October ’04. I made our arrangements directly with Walter Zanger (Einkarem, Simtat ha-Yekev 4 Jerusalem 95745, Israel; e-mail walterz@netvision.net.il). This is the fourth time that I have used Walter as a guide. He is one of the best in Israel. For his driver/guide services and [...]Packaged Africa
I have often read articles on Africa. Having taken, in 1999, a 7-day trip to Tanzania and a 7-day trip in Kenya in which we visited several reserves, I know that it is a complete waste of time to visit the Giraffe Manor in Nairobi as well as The Ark (famously written up) in Kenya [...]Water hole watch
In July ’03 we took a group of 10 friends to East Africa, i.e., Kenya and Tanzania. For my husband, Mark, and me, it has become a nearly annual sojourn to a very favorite place; a trip there in July ’05 was our 12th. After Africa, every place else seems to pale. Africa is generally a [...]Tanzania, land of splendor and grace
We took a trip to Tanzania arranged by Roy Safaris (P.O. Box 50, Arusha, Tanzania; phone 255 27 250 8010, fax 255 27 254 8892, e-mail roysafaris@intafrica.com or visit www.roysafaris.com). We flew to London on Dec. 16, ’04, and then to Nairobi, Kenya. After a slight glitch on our flight from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro, we met [...]Egypt — fulfilling a date with destiny
by Nili Olay, New York, NY I believe I was always meant to go to Egypt… I received my undergraduate degree in ancient Near Eastern Studies (Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, etc.) from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. I was married to an Egyptologist who, for a while, worked at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. But while [...]
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