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The Discerning Traveler » Dealing with delayed, canceled and overbooked flights

Columns, February 2008 issue
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D. (second of two parts) Last month, I discussed the many causes of delayed and canceled flights and suggested a few tactics on dealing with the problem. This month, I continue my discourse. F. COMPENSATION Since federal law does not require compensation to passengers whose flights are delayed or canceled, you are stuck with only ...

All Aboard » More new developments at year’s end

All Aboard, December 2007 issue
All Aboard » More new developments at year’s end
by Jay Brunhouse On Dec. 9, passenger trains will make their first 125-mph runs through Switzerland’s shorter, safer and more productive north-south Lötschberg Base Tunnel between Frutigen and Raron. The CHF30 billion, 8-year construction of the lowest crossing of the Alps, at 2,717 feet, had a grassroots beginning. In the ’70s, Swiss motorists began complaining that multiwheeled trailer ...

All Aboard! » New Spanish high-speed

All Aboard, May 2007 issue
All Aboard! » New Spanish high-speed
by Jay Brunhouse The sensation of riding on Spain’s high-speed train from Madrid to Zaragoza (Saragossa) is, more than anything, one of smoothness, without the bumps and jolts common on some of Spanish Railroads’ (RENFE’s) teeth-rattling old trains. The journey passes so comfortably, in fact, that it is easy for a rider to forget the blazing ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, March 2007 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 373rd issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. It has been 31 years since ITN came out with its first issue in March 1976. At that time, no other travel publication would print negative comments about any aspect of travel out of fear of offending advertisers. Armond Noble, ITN’s publisher, says that ...

Srpska, past and present

Travelers' Intercom, August 2006 issue
My wife, Arlene, and I were visiting Belgrade in Serbia & Montenegro for a week in June ’05 and decided to take a day trip to the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Srpska is off the usual tourist itinerary but well worth visiting because of its natural beauty and geographic location in the ...

All Aboard! » By train to Russia

All Aboard, May 2006 issue
All Aboard! » By train to Russia
by Jay Brunhouse Kicking off your Eastern adventure by train to Mother Russia, you can climb the steps to a through carriage from Berlin or Prague or a direct train from Helsinki. Choose the train from Helsinki for convenience and comfort. From Prague your carriage travels through Slovakia and Ukraine before reaching Moscow, and the Ukraine authorities ...

Bucharest to Budapest — An Eastern European river cruise

Boarding Pass, May 2006 issue
Bucharest to Budapest — An Eastern European river cruise
by June L. Griffin, Lewiston, ME The prospect of a trip to Eastern Europe was made very attractive by the thought of stepping ashore in five countries — Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia & Montenegro, Croatia and Hungary — from the comfort of a luxurious river vessel. Just a decade ago Russia dominated these countries, which are now ...

Travels in central Serbia

Features, April 2006 issue
Travels in central Serbia
by Margaret and Roger Kinkle, Oro Valley, AZ For 10 days in early October ’05 we visited friends in south-central Serbia & Montenegro, touring three historic sites in Serbia: Niš in south-central Serbia; Felix Romuliana at Gamzigrad near Zaječar in eastern Serbia, and Staro Selo (Old Village), south of Užice in western Serbia. Getting there We flew Air ...

Stopping at select sites on a Eurail tour of Austria, Hungary, and Romania

Features, June 2005 issue
by Beth Habian, Features Editor It sounded like the perfect itinerary to me. We would begin in Vienna, a city I had been dying to see but had not yet had the pleasure of visiting. We would continue to Hungary, which is emerging as a fashionable travel destination while still exuding Old World charm, and end ...

Lucky passport

Travelers' Intercom, June 2005 issue
The April ’05 “Discerning Traveler” column deals with getting a second passport. There is one significant group of people that has the chance to get a legitimate foreign passport: people who have one grandparent born in Ireland. If you are in this crowd, you are entitled to become an Irish citizen. You must register with the ...
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