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Romance of the Rhine and Mosel — a beautifully orchestrated cruise aboard the River Melody

Features, January 2008 issue
Romance of the Rhine and Mosel — a beautifully orchestrated cruise aboard the River Melody
by Jane Albusche, Contributing Editor I’d wondered why Grand Circle Travel named its European river cruise ships after composers or musical terms (Debussy, Ravel, Concerto, Harmony and so on). After the first few days aboard the M/S River Melody, the answer was obvious: our September ’07 cruise, “Romance of the Rhine & Mosel,” had a soothing ...

Report Cards

Report Cards, December 2007 issue
From PARIS, France, Oct. 10… • We used Capitol Shuttle (www.airport-shuttle.com) in Paris for airport/hotel transfers. Beware! We had a one-hour wait for pickup at the airport (“caught in traffic”). Pickup at our hotel was on time, but they attempted to drop us off at the wrong terminal! Then they dropped us off at correct terminal ...

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 ...

Why don’t we have that here?

Travelers' Intercom, September 2007 issue
An ITN reader suggested subscribers write in about great inventions, systems, time savers or conveniences that they have seen overseas. A number of responses were printed in the April ’07 issue. Here are a few more. If you run across a great idea, write to “Why Don’t We Have That Here?,” c/o ITN, 2120 28th ...

Biking through Hungary

Features, August 2007 issue
Biking through Hungary
by Jim Hendrickson, Bellingham, WA In late July and early August ’06, I took a one-week bicycle tour of the puszta (great plain) in eastern Hungary. Called “Spa Route Through the Puszta,” it included seven nights in mostly 3-star hotels; delicious buffet breakfasts and Hungarian dinners daily; the rental of a 21-speed bicycle; two English-speaking tour ...

The trend towards not smoking in Europe

Features, March 2007 issue
The list below shows the current and planned policies regarding smoking in public in various countries in Europe. Note that in many, various versions of legislation are still being debated and challenged in courts. In general, however, most countries in Europe still allow smoking in bars and restaurants but require separate smoking and nonsmoking sections. Currently, ...

Learning another language

Travelers' Intercom, February 2007 issue
Learning another language
What have you found to be the best, easiest or most efficient way or simply a sufficient way to learn a foreign language? Language tapes? iPod? Book? Online learning guide? Total-immersion course overseas? We asked you to write in with whatever advice or info you could provide, including details such as titles, sources, contact info ...

Travel Tidbits

Travel Tidbits, December 2006 issue
Travel Tidbits
Fethiye, Turkey, has a wonderful small market with everything you might wish to buy — great jewelry, rugs, spices. . . . On a June-July ’04 tour with Treasures of Travel (Edmonds, WA; 800/572-0526), I found wonderful things there for my home and for my friends. — PEGGY LONG, Portland, OR In Helsinki, Finland, I took ...

A brief visit to Brugge

Features, November 2006 issue
by Susan Fogwell, Princeton, NJ The accessibility in reaching Brugge, Belgium, via train makes it a fun and delightful day-trip destination. I boarded a train with my husband, John, at Centraal Station in Amsterdam for the 3-hour journey. With a quick change of trains in Antwerp, we were on a comfortable train slicing through flat Belgian ...

Getting a global education on a learning vacation to China

Features, October 2006 issue
by Diana Hunt, Aiken, SC A search for “learning vacations” on Google produced 465,645 results. Obviously, many travelers are looking for more than zonk-out beach vacations and the whirlwind “If this is Tuesday, it must be Belgium” kind of forced march. Experienced travelers have become hungry for global education. Organized cultural vacations pre-sent opportunities to learn a ...