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Laos — land of a million elephants

Features, January 2008 issue
Laos — land of a million elephants
by Richard Shally, Walnut Creek, CA. Photos by Henk Ten Dam, Netherlands Laos is known as “the land of a million elephants,” but are there really a million? To find out, I took a 17-day Small Group Discovery Tour with Carpe Diem Travel, a UK-based socially responsible tour company. The January ’07 tour started and ended ...

Keeping in touch with the folks back home

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
Bill Steltzer of West Grove, Pennsylvania, lamented that on a May ’07 trip to France he had trouble finding public Web-access points. “Now that computer ownership is universal, the Internet cafés have vanished,” he wrote. “We used to find public libraries good spots for Internet access but not on this past trip. At the mediatheques (small-town ...

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 ...

Blandford Hotel in Great Britain

Accommodations Worldwide, July 2007 issue
I spent a delightful week at a lovely, small hotel in London, ENGLAND: the Blandford Hotel (80 Chiltern St., London W1U 5AF, U.K.; phone 44-207-486-3103, fax 487-2786 or visit www.blandfordhotel.com). I first stayed there in January ’05 and liked it then, but on my most recent visit in March ’07 I found that the entire ...

Wales — walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path

Features, January 2007 issue
Wales — walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path
by Robert Buckley, Marion, IA The wild and rugged coastline of Wales is as spectacular as the fancy travel brochures promise — indeed, even more so. This is particularly true in Pembrokeshire, Wales’ most western county. And the best way to enjoy its awesome scenery is by hiking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, a 186-mile-long footpath, the ...

National Trust hotels in Great Britain

Accommodations Worldwide, January 2007 issue
National Trust hotels in Great Britain
The National Trust (Box 39, Warrington, WA5 7WD, UNITED KINGDOM; phone 0870 458 4000 or visit www. nationaltrust. org.uk), founded in 1895, owns many historic properties (houses, manor houses, abbeys, etc.) across England and Wales as well as properties of natural beauty, most of which are open to the public for a small admission fee. In ...

Finding the right way ’round — a lesson in navigating British roundabouts

Features, December 2006 issue
Finding the right way ’round — a lesson in navigating British roundabouts
by Anton Prole, Wiltshire, England I wrote briefly in ITN about navigating Britain’s roundabouts (Aug. ’05, pg. 74), mentioning that a well-known travel writer had wrongly advised, “. . . if you don’t know which route to take, you just go around again and again until your navigator has sorted which exit to take.” That advice, ...

November Report Cards

Report Cards, November 2006 issue
FIRST, FAST & FURIOUS — The following is a sampling of reports received from ITN readers around the globe. ITN invites you to join our corps of reporters — just drop a card in the mail while the travel impressions are fresh in your mind. To obtain your ITN Report Cards, send a self-addressed, stamped, ...

Guide in London

Travelers' Intercom, August 2006 issue
Having returned from London with my friend Robin’s elderly parents (80 and 88), I wanted to recommend a driver/guide who perfectly met our needs: showing these first-time visitors as much of London as possible from the comfort of a vehicle. Claire Ross, who was referred to us by London Walks (www.walks.com), was the perfect guide — ...

The Good or Bad Tour Guide

Features, June 2006 issue
At the suggestion of Ellen Jacobson of Centennial, Colorado, we asked readers, “What makes a good guide and why and what makes a bad guide and why?” We threw in the questions “What are some constructive ways to communicate with a guide or help him or her better their performance, deal with a specific expectation ...