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Impressed with Australia arrangements

Travelers' Intercom, March 2008 issue
My wife and I took a 6-week trip to Australia and New Zealand, Sept. 9-Oct. 22, 2007. We are experienced travelers, both at home and abroad, and our preference and most common approach is to travel independently. For our trip, I planned the itinerary as usual, but when I attempted to implement it, I was repeatedly ...

Car rental insurance glitch

Travelers' Intercom, March 2008 issue
I rented a car in Australia, Oct. 17-29, 2007, where I had a minor accident. The car was parked legally and I wasn’t in it when it was sideswiped. I had paid US$864 for the car rental, which was from Europcar at the Sydney airport. I filed a claim with Diners Club, invoking the insurance benefits that ...

Searching for family ties in Scotland

Features, February 2008 issue
Searching for family ties in Scotland
by Richard Reid, Clarkston, WA Since the mid-18th century, Scottish immigrants have contributed to the growth of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. For those wishing to discover their Scottish heritage, there is no better way than to go to the country from which those immigrants originated. What usually is discovered, however, is that ...

Nothing beats a flush in NZ

Travelers' Intercom, February 2008 issue
Perhaps we do have this in the States, but we’re not finding it in my local home improvement store. While in New Zealand in 2007, my husband, Jim, and I were impressed that most of the toilets had two levels of flush. You could do a low-use flush or a full flush. What a boon in ...

Far Horizons » On becoming a G.O.

Columns, December 2007 issue
In the travel industry, G.O. is the abbreviation for the term “group organizer.” Most ITN readers probably know at least one person who has functioned as a G.O. Who are G.O.s? The definition of a group organizer, broadly stated, is someone who organizes a group of people to travel together with a common group itinerary. A group ...

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 ...

Snippets of New Zealand (Second of two parts)

Columns, November 2007 issue
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D. In this issue, I am continuing my travelogue of the South Island, which we visited in January 2007 as part of a 4-week Elderhostel (Boston, MA; 800/454-5768, www.elderhostel.org) program in New Zealand. Te Anau Our group’s next overnight was in Te Anau, located on the shores of the lake by the same name. On one ...

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 ...

Australia coupon books

Travelers' Intercom, October 2007 issue
In response to the reader’s letter about using the Entertainment® Book for discounts in Australia (July ’07, pg. 14), I must caution travelers on my experience with Entertainment Publications. In early spring 2006 I ordered coupon books for the cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth for a total of about $80. This price included a discount, ...

Report Cards

Report Cards, September 2007 issue
On FRANCE, July ’07. . . • Do you love to try new wines in France? Head to the grocery stores and check out the wonderful selections that are available in half bottles (roughly two glasses per bottle). The prices range from €1.5 to €5 ($2-$7) for wines from all different regions. Grab some of ...