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Around the world: seven outstanding snorkeling spots

Features, September 2007 issue
Around the world: seven outstanding snorkeling spots
by Larry Taylor, Fullerton, CA My wife and I are avid snorkelers and we have snorkeled in various spots all over the world. With this in mind, I decided to write about our seven best snorkeling experiences in the areas of the world that ITN covers. Be aware that these selections are very subjective. What I looked ...

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., ...

Ask Steve » Ballindalloch Castle, Norweigan Coastal Voyage

Columns, October 2006 issue
Q Steve, I just wanted to express my appreciation for your article “A Wee Taste of Scotland” in the April ’06 issue. Amazingly, I’ve been to all of the places you mentioned. We’ve visited many Scotch whisky distilleries, and Strathisla is our favorite. But most of all, I appreciated the mention of Ballindalloch Castle. Surprisingly, I ...

Grand Voyage demographic

Travelers' Intercom, July 2006 issue
There is nothing like the excitement and romance of a cruise. If it’s a long cruise, like a Grand Voyage (50-plus days) or a World Cruise (105 days), so much the better. But think twice. I wish I had known about the following before we spent $30K. We took the Grand Voyage “Orient Explorer 2005” on ...

Shopping for furniture: Fiji, Orkney chairs

Travelers' Intercom, March 2006 issue
Shopping for furniture: Fiji, Orkney chairs
Fit for Fiji I took my first trip to Fiji in August ’05. Our group of six flew from Los Angeles to Nadi, changed planes and flew to the second-largest island in the Fijian chain, Vanua Levu. We spent the next week at the wonderful Koro Sun Resort & Rainforest Spa (in the U.S., call 877/567-6786 ...

The Cruising World » Sail one of these tall ships

Columns, August 2005 issue
(Second of two parts) Last month I described the romance of tall ship sailing. This month I will give some specific suggestions for fascinating tall ships around the world. Where the tall ships roam Cruising grounds for tall ships cover the entire globe. There are various tall ships in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan and South America, and ...

Commends smarTours

Travelers' Intercom, May 2004 issue
I would like to commend a tour company that “stepped up to the plate” when plans went awry. On our Nov. 18-Dec. 10, ’03, trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji with smarTours (New York, NY; phone 800/337-7773 or visit www.smartours.net), a last-minute change in itinerary created a major scheduling fiasco during our two days in ...

Fiji’s Bedarra Inn

Accommodations Worldwide, February 2004 issue
In March ’03 we spent six nights at the Bedarra Inn (P.O. Box 1213 Sigatoka, FIJI; phone 679-6500476, fax 679-6520116 or e-mail bedarrahouse@connect.com.fj). East of Sigatoka, this mansion-like inn is in a charming spot with ocean views from the balconies of some of the rooms (we had a lovely view). There is a pool. The rooms ...

A piece of paradise in the Cook Islands

Features, January 2004 issue
A piece of paradise in the Cook Islands
by Dan Gifford, Arlington, VA (Part 6 in a series of 6) On the island of Rarotonga, nothing can be built taller than a coconut tree. This inspired bit of zoning regulation sums up why we chose the largest of the Cook Islands over better-known South Pacific destinations like Tahiti or Fiji. No highrise hotels, no ...