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Apartment living near Italy’s Lake Garda

Features, March 2008 issue
Apartment living near Italy's Lake Garda
by Alan Wolstencroft, Dunnellon, FL While browsing the Internet for somewhere to stay during my planned early spring 2007 visit on the shores of Lake Garda, northern Italy, I spotted the Residence Bella Vista, located in Manerba del Garda. On closer inspection, I thought the prices for its apartments sounded about right, and the photos, it turned ...

Three generations enjoy summer hiking in the Swiss Alps

Features, February 2008 issue
Three generations enjoy summer hiking in the Swiss Alps
by Hugh Clark, Tampa, FL I had so much fun traveling by rail in Europe during my working years that after retirement I formed a company (European Train Tours) to share with others the joy of rail travel. From 1989 to 1999 my wife, Ruth, and I had the great pleasure of taking small groups on ...

Enjoyable trip to South Africa

Travelers' Intercom, January 2008 issue
Enjoyable trip to South Africa
My husband, Lewis, thought if we checked into South African Airways (800/722-9675, www.flysaa.com) at Washington Dulles Airport 3½ hours before our flight to Cape Town on Jan. 11, 2007, we might have a good chance of getting an exit-row seat, knowing they give preference to their SAA Voyager program members (which we are not). Alas, ...

Old meets new in the heart of Japan’s Honshu Island

Features, December 2007 issue
Old meets new in the heart of Japan’s Honshu Island
by John Penisten, Hilo, HI On a March ’07 trip to Japan, my wife, Susan, and I wanted to experience something of the country’s hectic urban life as well as the slower pace of its small towns and countryside. We got both during our train trip through the heart of Honshu Island. The small, sedate market town ...

Hutong tour in Beijing

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
While my husband and I were in Beijing for three days during a 2-week trip to China, April 15-29, 2007, I wanted to take a tour of the hutongs. Hutongs are the alleys that are lined with multitudes of small homes. They covered the city for centuries, but since the founding of the People’s Republic of ...

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 ...

Southern Africa trains

Travelers' Intercom, October 2007 issue
In July ’06 I made a deposit of $2,400 for trips on the following Shongololo Express trains in Southern Africa: Good Hope, March 6-21, 2007 ($3,680), Dune Express, March 27-April 11 ($3,905) and Southern Cross, April 11-26 ($4,350) — total cost, $11,935. So it was with concern that I read in ITN the news item “South ...

Colombia, Paraguay, and Uruguay — three surprising South American destinations

Features, August 2007 issue
Colombia, Paraguay, and Uruguay — three surprising South American destinations
by Sandra Scott, Mexico, NY To escape northern New York’s winters, my husband, John, and I spend three months of each year someplace warmer. In 2007, our “winter getaway” was South America. While we had been to South America several times, during this trip we found some pleasant surprises. The new Colombia If ever a country needed a P.R. ...

JMG Tibet Tours to Beijing & Tibet

Tours in Review, August 2007 issue
I was quite surprised at the modern Beijing. There are skyscrapers everywhere. The city will host the 2008 Summer Olympics, so there is construction everywhere too. My 20-day tour with JMG Tibet Tours (Lauderhill, FL), Oct. 5-24, 2005, was wonderful and cost $3,100 including air from Cleveland. (In 2007 this tour is offered as an 18-day ...

Swiss tracks

Travelers' Intercom, June 2007 issue
The Swiss Pass entitles you to a 50% fare reduction on the Brienzer Rothorn Bahn. The implication that I got from the caption on page 88 of the April ’07 issue was that it was free (“included”). We enjoyed it on a Swiss vacation in September ‘06. • Page 99 of the April issue mentions that ...