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April 2016 issue | Appears on page 54

What's Cooking in... Seoul
By Sandra Scott

So many recipes can be found in cookbooks, which are some of the most popular-selling books, and we all have family recipes. However, when I’m looking for something different to make, I refer to recipes from the cooking classes that my husband, John, and I have taken in a variety of countries. 

I like the fact that we completed each recipe under supervision and have taste-tested the result. Also, we know the recipe is ethnically authentic because the class was taught by a...

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April 2016 issue | Appears on page 55

Festival at Domaine de Chaumont-Sur-Loire
By Yvonne Michie Horn

This is the last in a series of four articles on Loire Valley gardens. The first was on Chédigny, a village designated in its entirety a Jardin Remarquable (Oct. ’15, pg. 55). The second featured Château du Clos Lucé (Dec. ’15, pg. 49) and described a garden with roots to Leonardo da Vinci. The third was about Jardin du Plessis, located near the village of Sasniéres and part of a larger property under family ownership since the 15th century (Feb.’16, pg. 53). — YMH...

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March 2016 issue | Appears on page 2

Travel Risk Map 2016. Cruise ship vessel sanitation inspections
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 481st issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine. With this issue, we begin our 41st year of publication! Thank you, all of you — subscribers, advertisers, business associates and friends — who have made it possible for ITN to never miss a deadline. With your continued help, we’ll keep the travel news coming. • Here’s an information source that you might find of interest. A world map that shows travelers, at a glance, the levels of each and every nation’...

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March 2016 issue | Appears on page 53

What’s new in France and Italy for 2016
By Rick Steves

FRANCE has brought us so much culture and art and, at the same time, has championed the modern concept of a vacation. To get the most out of your next visit, be mindful of these changes and developments for 2016.

• In Paris, the Eiffel Tower’s first level — after a $38 million renovation — is decked out with new shops, eateries and a multimedia presentation about the tower’s construction, paint job, place in pop culture and more. The highlight is the breathtaking, vertigo-inducing...

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March 2016 issue | Appears on page 55

Scandinavia Copenhagen and Helsinki
By Randy Keck

(Third of three parts)

On the final part of the 12-day tour of Scandinavia that I took with smarTours (partially hosted) in August 2015, our group enjoyed an overnight DFDS Seaways cruise from Oslo, Norway, to Copenhagen, exploring the Danish capital for two days before flying to Helsinki, Finland. Boarding the ship in Oslo in late afternoon, we enjoyed two sunny hours of revelry on the 11th-level open deck with a view of the city skyline and harbor. The cruise was off to a great...

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February 2016 issue | Appears on page 2

TSA body-scanner policy change. Looking at city smog levels worldwide
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 480th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.

Divide that number by 12 and you’ll see that, with this issue, ITN has been in publication for 40 years!

ITN depends on its subscribers, each of you, to write in about interesting places to visit, ways to travel more cost- or time-efficiently, things travelers should watch out for — whatever may interest people who travel anywhere outside of the US.

For submitting...

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February 2016 issue | Appears on page 50

An all-too-brief taste of Haiti
By Deanna Palić

My spring ritual is to come up with a summer vacation destination I’ve never visited. Last spring, when an email from Marriott Hotels & Resorts popped into my inbox announcing they had just opened a new hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, my decision about where to travel in August 2015 became easy. 

 

A history of turmoil

In the early 1980s, in my role as a tour manager, I escorted a 3-week tour in China, and among the group members was a well-...

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February 2016 issue | Appears on page 53

Jardin du Plessis

By Yvonne Michie Horn

In the spring of 2015, I lived for six weeks in the Loire Valley town of Blois. My primary reason for being there was to improve my French via self-imposed immersion. In doing so, I sallied forth beyond the well-trod châteaux route in search of unique gardens of the Loire. Four articles resulted. The first was on Chédigny, a tiny village designated in its entirety a Jardin Remarquable (Oct. ’15, pg. 55). The second featured Château du Clos Lucé (Dec. ’15, pg. 49) and described a...

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