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Cruising Scotland’s Caledonian Canal

Features, February 2009 issue
Cruising Scotland’s Caledonian Canal
2008 marked our 50th wedding anniversary, and we decided it would be a good year to celebrate with our family. Since we are longtime devotees of river cruising, we chartered a barge for our family of seven for a one-week trip in August ’08 through the Highlands of Scotland on the Caledonian Canal. ...

The Hague as base

Travelers' Intercom, January 2008 issue
The Hague as base
On an earlier, 2006, trip to the Netherlands with my friend Greg to see Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” we based in Den Haag for our travels around part of Holland. I’d gone online to book Hotel Sebel (Prins Hendrikplein 20, 2518 JC Den Haag, Netherlands; phone +31 70 3 459 200, fax 3 455 ...

St. Davids, Wales, & Beccles, England — a look at two small-town destinations

Features, October 2007 issue
St. Davids, Wales, & Beccles, England — a look at two small-town destinations
by Marisue Pickering, Orono, ME Regular visits to our son and his family in England have allowed us to explore numerous parts of the British Isles. Our trip in the fall of 2006 took us to two new places: St. Davids in southwest Wales and Beccles, near the North Sea, in England. St. Davids Our pattern is to ...

Amsterdam Canal Tours

Travelers' Intercom, December 2006 issue
I think of Amsterdam as a painter’s palette with a variety of colors to dip into. There are the vibrant rainbow shades of the famous floating flower market complemented by the subdued ochre tones of old city buildings bordered by blue canals. And everything in this gallery of a city is easy to get to and ...

A brief visit to Brugge

Features, November 2006 issue
by Susan Fogwell, Princeton, NJ The accessibility in reaching Brugge, Belgium, via train makes it a fun and delightful day-trip destination. I boarded a train with my husband, John, at Centraal Station in Amsterdam for the 3-hour journey. With a quick change of trains in Antwerp, we were on a comfortable train slicing through flat Belgian ...

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne

Features, September 2006 issue
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne lies three miles from the mainland of Northumberland, England, not far from the Scottish border. It’s not only a picturesque site but a religious and historical place well worth a visit if one is traveling in northern England. A little history Since the island is connected to the mainland by a causeway ...

Scotland’s Orkney Islands

Features, January 2006 issue
Scotland's Orkney Islands
Having completed a cruise on the Caledonian Canal, the Betty and Dick Wood’s Scottish journey continues with an Orkney Islands extension. Following a tour of the lovely city of Inverness, a group of 10 of us boarded a 37-passenger turboprop plane for a flight to Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands. This group of 70 islands, rising out ...

A novel approach to travel

Travelers' Intercom, June 2005 issue
Here are some of the novels whose images and ideas motivated my wife and me to travel. • We were awed by the astonishing luminosity of Cephalonia, GREECE, after reading “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” by Louis de Bernieres. • There is a new translation of “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, but any edition should send you to ...

Hiking Hadrian’s Wall with UK Contours Walking Holidays

Tours in Review, May 2005 issue
United Kingdom Contours Walking Holidays (Gramyre, 3 Berrier Rd., Greystoke, CA11 0UB, United Kingdom; phone +44 [0] 17684 80451 or visit www. contours.co.uk) handled the arrangements when my husband and I hiked the new Hadrian’s Wall Path from Tynemouth (on the North Sea) to Bowness on Solway Firth, April 3-11, ’04. Officially it is 84 ...

Danube cruise interrupted

Travelers' Intercom, February 2004 issue
My husband and I booked a “Grand European River Cruise” with Vantage Deluxe World Travel which offered a voyage from the North Sea to the Black Sea. Our departure date of Aug. 15, ’03, coincided with the hottest and driest summer in Europe in the past 150 years. As time for our departure approached, we became ...