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Snippets of New Zealand (Second of two parts)

Columns, November 2007 issue
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D. In this issue, I am continuing my travelogue of the South Island, which we visited in January 2007 as part of a 4-week Elderhostel (Boston, MA; 800/454-5768, www.elderhostel.org) program in New Zealand. Te Anau Our group’s next overnight was in Te Anau, located on the shores of the lake by the same name. On one ...

The Discerning Traveler » Snippets of New Zealand

Columns, October 2007 issue
—The Discerning Traveler is written by Philip Wagenaar. (First of two parts) It was our third trip to New Zealand. We were on a 4-week Elderhostel (11 Ave. de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111; 800/454-5768, www.elderhostel.org) tour of the North and South Islands. Our last journey, in 1984, had culminated in the county hospital in Nelson on the South ...

Australia Travel Planning

Travelers' Intercom, September 2007 issue
I would like to second David Sutcliffe’s praise (March ’07, pg. 81) for Gayle and Michael Hawker of Tasmania Travel Planning and Australia Travel Planning (4428 E. Willow Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85032; 800/830-8999, www.australian.com or www.tasmania.com). I discovered Michael and Gayle via their advertisement in ITN. Upon calling, I told them that if they did well ...

Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under

Features, August 2007 issue
Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under
by Jennifer Petoff, San Francisco, CA My husband, Scott, and I recently moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco to pursue a new job opportunity. In the process of relocating, we were able to carve out time for a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand in March ’07. The trip represented the perfect opportunity to put ...

The Discerning Traveler » Cabin air quality

Columns, July 2007 issue
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D. 14 tactics to increase your flying comfort The following essay was inspired by a letter from ITN reader Mrs. Carey Casey in Cathedral City, California. “Who are those two strange-looking people?” our fellow travelers must have wondered. Our faces covered by oxygen masks with their extended hoses dangling toward the supply tanks, we must have ...

Australia, New Zealand, & Fiji with GCT

Tours in Review, February 2007 issue
Since my wife, Mary, and I both retired in 2000, we have been traveling abroad at least twice a year. More and more of our friends expressed an interest in traveling with us, so we started doing organized group tours. For the last few years we have used Grand Circle Travel, or GCT (347 Congress St., ...

Northernmost New Zealand

Travelers' Intercom, January 2007 issue
My wife, Carole, and I took a 2-week trip to New Zealand in March ’06. We spent most of our time north of Auckland, especially in the Doubtless Bay area. This area received its name from Captain Cook, who when he passed by wrote in his ship’s log, “Doubtless there is a bay.” Our main stay ...

Discovery — ‘low-key’ cruise with Brits

Travelers' Intercom, January 2007 issue
My wife, Esta Lee, and I took the “Grand Voyage to Scandinavia,” May 13-June 5, 2006, on the MV Discovery of Discovery World Cruises (1800 SE 10th Ave., Ste. 205, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316; 866/623-2689, www.discoveryworldcruises.com). The package combined a 2-week transatlantic cruise from Nassau in the Bahamas to Harwich in the U.K. and a one-week ...

Re: passengers smoking on cruise

Travelers' Intercom, December 2006 issue
We took a 12-day cruise from Sydney, Australia, to Auckland, New Zealand, on the Diamond Princess, Feb. 24-March 8, 2006. We were disturbed by the cruise line’s lenient no-smoking policy, which is the most lenient of any cruise ship we’ve recently been on. The man in the cabin next door smoked from daylight to dawn. It ...

’Round-world trips

Travelers' Intercom, October 2006 issue
Are you considering a trip around the world (Dec. ’05, pg. 53)? Our recommendation would be “Go for it!” In March-April ’05 we traveled around the world, spending five weeks in 10 countries, and it was truly the trip of a lifetime. Here are the particulars. 1. We used United Airlines and their Star Alliance (www.staralliance.com) ...