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Normandy cemetery

Travelers' Intercom, January 2008 issue
I was at the Normandy American Military Cemetery in France, June 6, 2007, for the dedication of the new $30 million visitors’ center. The exhibits are every bit as interesting as those at the D-Day Museum in New Orleans, plus there’s an impressive view of the English Channel. Also, while it’s not exactly an optical illusion, ...

The Hague as base

Travelers' Intercom, January 2008 issue
The Hague as base
On an earlier, 2006, trip to the Netherlands with my friend Greg to see Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” we based in Den Haag for our travels around part of Holland. I’d gone online to book Hotel Sebel (Prins Hendrikplein 20, 2518 JC Den Haag, Netherlands; phone +31 70 3 459 200, fax 3 455 ...

Visits Britain

Travelers' Intercom, January 2008 issue
I am an arthritic, 6′3″, 75-year-old who returned from a 3-week trip to Britain on Sept. 19, 2007. I find it well worth the additional cost to upgrade to British Air’s World Traveler Plus section (coach-plus) — much more seat and legroom. They often offer special rates to their frequent flyers. British Air also offers online seat ...

Reviewers’ Corner

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
Here are a couple of the latest travel-book reviews written by ITN readers. “National Geographic: The Ultimate Field Guide to Landscape Photography” by Robert Caputo (2007, National Geographic. ISBN 9781426200540 — 160 pp., $21.95). Warning! This book is a slick-paper paperback with the Geographic’s usual fine photography, but the absolutely rigid binding and the narrow margins in ...

‘Quintessential’ travel vest

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
The reader’s letter titled “Safeguard Your Wallet” (Sept. ’07, pg. 89) prompts me to write a note I have put off for many years. Tilley Endurables (3176 Abbott Rd., Building A, Orchard Park, NY 14127; 800/363-8737, www.tilley.com) makes, as far as I am concerned, the quintessential travel vest designed for storage and carrying convenience as well ...

Bright future

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
A reader wrote that he and his wife travel with 100-watt lightbulbs to replace the 40-watt ones often provided in hotel rooms (July ’07, pg. 37). Well, we’re cautious about using our high-wattage American electronics (dryers, curlers, irons, etc.) while traveling abroad, since the power situation is different than what we have in America. Using ...

Tour Director U

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
I read Randy Keck’s article “Tour Director Training and Employment — 2007 Update” (April ’07, pg. 105). I am a tour director. I love traveling on my own and love traveling leading tours. I received my tour director/manager training at the International Guide Academy/International Tour Manager Academy, Inc., or IGA/ITMA (Box 370190, Denver, CO 80237-0190; 877/442-4862, ...

Buddhist sites in India

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
I enjoyed the letter on visiting northern India (Oct. ’07, pg. 73), however I was a bit taken aback by the comment “There are almost no Buddhist sites in India proper.” When we were in Delhi in February ’07, we met a student at an Internet café who was in India studying Buddhism. She was following ...

Chip and pin in UK

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
We had no problems using American credit cards in Edinburgh, Scotland, at any establishments or businesses in August ’07. These included restaurants, museums, theater box offices, retail establishments and grocery stores. A real plus at the restaurants — almost without exception, when I went to charge a meal the server came to our table with a ...

CDG musical chairs

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
We have never been enthusiastic fans of Charles de Gaulle International Airport (Roissy CDG) in Paris. In the past, our complaints — which were mainly about the lack of or inoperable ATMs and poor signage to car rental offices — while adding up to considerable dissatisfaction, could have been taken individually as a bit of ...