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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 ...

Baggage tips

Travelers' Intercom, September 2007 issue
All luggage seems to be on wheels today. It’s great on flat surfaces, but now we have all these new weight restrictions, and wheelers weigh seven pounds or more. Is it important to you to have wheels or to be able to carry seven more pounds of your stuff? It’s your choice. Wheels can be an ...

Overnights on Norway trails

Travelers' Intercom, May 2007 issue
We have traveled Norway from top (Kirkenes) to bottom and from east to west but not since 1983. However, some things don’t change. All over mountainous central Norway are hiking trails with magnificent views of lakes and glaciers, and the timberline is low at 1,000 feet. There is no need to carry a tent and sleeping ...

Prebooked St. Petersburg shore tour

Travelers' Intercom, April 2007 issue
My wife, Gloria, and I took Celebrity Cruises’ 12-night Scandinavia and Russia cruise aboard the Century, Aug. 14-26, 2006. The itinerary took us from Amsterdam to Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen and back to Amsterdam. In the pre-cruise literature there were draconian and confusing warnings about passengers taking shore tours in St. Petersburg not arranged ...

Cruising World » Star Princess rises like a phoenix

Columns, February 2007 issue
Cruising World » Star Princess rises like a phoenix
by Lew Toulmin After suffering a fire in the Bahamas in March 2006, Star Princess recovered in amazing time and is now “the safest ship afloat.” I was on board Star Princess for her first voyage after the repair, and I can report that there is no evidence of fire damage, service is excellent, and safety ...

Imagining a Nobel experience in Stockholm

Features, October 2006 issue
by Jennifer Petoff, Blue Bell, PA As a scientist, I have always been enamored with the Nobel Prize. There is a certain magic associated with these elite awards and the pomp and circumstance that goes along with them. Sweden’s own Alfred Nobel, a fellow chemist and a pioneer in the field of explosives, left funding for prizes in ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, June 2006 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 364th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. The results of a recent study are based on the typical expenses of business travelers rather than tourists, but Oslo is now reportedly the most expensive city in the world, displacing Tokyo. Trailing those two are Reykjavik, Osaka, Paris, Copenhagen, London, Zürich, Geneva and ...

Cruising along the fjord-filled coast of Norway

Features, May 2005 issue
by Patricia Arrigoni, Fairfax, CA It was 4:30 in the morning and I had been up since 3 a.m. My natural time clock was completely confused by the bright sunshine pouring through my cabin window, for I was in the Land of the Midnight Sun in northern Norway. It had taken me four days and four flights ...

Skiing to the North Pole — at 73

Features, January 2005 issue
Skiing to the North Pole — at 73
by Henry Linden, Torrance, CA I love to travel. Since I have visited about 75 countries, I am constantly on the lookout for new and unusual experiences. About a year ago I was thinking about going to the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, located between Greenland and Norway, to get an idea of what it ...

Doing the Baltic cruise ports on your own

Travelers' Intercom, March 2004 issue
Doing the Baltic cruise ports on your own
We enjoyed a wonderful 10-day cruise aboard the Regal Princess in May ’02, traveling round trip from Copenhagen. In addition to Denmark, we visited Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Poland and Norway. I would like to give some tips on doing the shore excursions on your own as we did. The two major difficulties we encountered on ...
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