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Is your prescription the right one?

As usual, two weeks before embarking on my upcoming trip, I collected and counted all my medications, throwing in a few extra pills of each kind, just to be safe. As had been my custom for years, I had checked out each prescription on the Internet before filling it at the pharmacy. Although the medical sites I ...

Visiting Greek islands independently

My wife, Dee, and I and another couple flew via military aircraft (I am retired military) from Florida to Crete in April ’07. Aside from our initial accommodations on the base, we had no previous reservations but relied on what we could book onsite. Dee’s Fodor’s guidebook gave us ideas about where we should go. Most ...

Keeping in touch with the folks back home

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 ...

Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under

Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under
by Jennifer Petoff, San Francisco, CA My husband, Scott, and I recently moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco to pursue a new job opportunity. In the process of relocating, we were able to carve out time for a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand in March ’07. The trip represented the perfect opportunity to put ...

The Discerning Traveler » Missing-luggage strategies

I couldn’t believe my eyes. Was the company indeed offering unclaimed luggage for sale? Its website brazenly proclaimed, “Why not stop in at Unclaimed Baggage Center (509 West Willow St., Scottsboro, AL 35768; phone 256-259-1525, www.unclaimedbaggage.com), where you’ll find thousands of lost treasures from around the world. From winter clothes and shoes for the family ...

Iceland and Greenland — finding desolate beauty

by Ed Kinney, Contributing Editor On return flights from Europe, my wife, Moreen, and I often looked down from the sky in awe at the subtle montages of Iceland and the massive ice fields of Greenland, both islands surrounded by the blue Atlantic. We would ask ourselves why we hadn’t visited either place, especially since they ...

Egypt’s enchanting Siwa Oasis

by Roxana von Kraus, Boston, MA “American? Welcome. Welcome to Egypt!” My being the only foreigner at the Alexandria bus station, my passport received special attention, with all the data recorded carefully in a worn-out register. I was on my way to the ancient Siwa Oasis, located 600 kilometers west of Alexandria and about 62 from Libya. ...

Report Cards

From Rome, ITALY, Nov. 10, ’06. . . • Hotel Mozart (Via dei Greci 23/B, 00187 Rome; visit www.hotelmozart.com) — great central location near the Spanish Steps, with the main lobby on a pedestrian-only street. Lots of restaurants and shopping in the general area. We stayed in one of the Vivaldi Luxury Rooms, with Internet access in ...

December Report Cards

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, ...

Hotel Ambassade in Amsterdam

I was happy with the Hotel Ambassade (Herengracht 341, 1016 AZ Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS; phone +31 20 555 0 222 or visit www.ambassade-hotel.nl). I stayed there March 29-April 3, ’06, during the off-season, so my double room cost €185 ($238) per night, reduced from the rack rate of €220 ($283). My instinct is that the accommodations would ...