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Pinching pennies in Paris

Features, January 2010 issue
Pinching pennies in Paris
On our most recent trip to Paris, in May ’09, my husband, David, and I decided to put to the test all the articles we had read about free things to do in the city. We had never found Paris to be particularly easy on the wallet, and on this trip we were really pinching pennies. ...

An Apartment in Paris: a great base for a week-long visit

Features, May 2008 issue
An Apartment in Paris: a great base for a week-long visit
Martha and I, like many travelers, are drawn to Paris and seem to return there more often than to any other European city. On a recent 3-week trip to France, we spent our first week in Paris. ...

Report Cards

Report Cards, March 2008 issue
On FRANCE, December ’07-January ’08. . . After 20-plus trips to Paris, we continue to find excellent, unusual, inexpensive restaurants (in terms of euros, not in terms of the present dollar exchange rate). On our last trip, the following were noteworthy. • Casa San Pablo (5 rue de Sevigne) — in the fourth arrondissement, about midway between ...

Discoveries in Bulgaria and Romania

Features, March 2008 issue
Discoveries in Bulgaria and Romania
by M. Lewis Stein, Irvine, CA As we crossed the border from Turkey into Bulgaria, our guide, Borut Sraj, a 55-year-old Slovenian who wore a tiny flute around his neck to alert laggards when the bus was leaving, advised us, “The country may or may not work for you, but take it as it comes.” It was ...

Best airline to/from the U.S.

Travelers' Intercom, March 2008 issue
Of all the airlines you’ve flown between the U.S. and a foreign country in the last three years, which airline’s flight(s) did you most appreciate? That’s what we asked readers to write about, using the following parameters. Compare only the airlines’ flights on which you traveled in the same class of service. Rate only the in-flight ...

All Aboard » Cities of TGV Est

Columns, February 2008 issue
All Aboard » Cities of TGV Est
Take one glance at the new timetable from Paris’ Gare de l’Est and you see that frequent 199-mph TGV Est trains reach Reims in 45 minutes, Strasbourg in two hours 20 minutes, Nancy in one hour 30 minutes, Metz in one hour 25 minutes and Luxembourg in two hours five minutes. The TGVs have opened ...

Morocco guide ‘outstanding’

Travelers' Intercom, February 2008 issue
My wife, Marie, and I took a 2-week Morocco holiday, Sept. 30-Oct. 12, 2007, and were introduced to an outstanding guide. I would like to share his name and our experience. After meeting our inbound flight from Paris at the Casablanca airport, Said Baadoud (phone +212 76 3020 41 or e-mail saidbaadoud2001@yahoo.fr) escorted us for a ...

Four accommodations in England

Accommodations Worldwide, February 2008 issue
Here are four accommodations from our trip to ENGLAND, May 7-21, 2007. Our room in each of these featured a color TV and coffee/tea-making facilities. • Arriving at Heathrow after a short flight from Paris, we took a bus to Reading for £26 (about $52). From the rail station, we took a cab to our first ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, February 2008 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 384th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine, something that YOU help make happen. For the most part, this magazine is written by pay-your-own-way travelers like yourself, everyone watching out for each other. Whether it was a terrific guide or a hotel that was the pits, write in to share what ...

Report Cards

Report Cards, January 2008 issue
From VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 28 • For EuroHotel Vienna Airport (1 Marco-Polo-Strasse, Fischamend, Austria), our reservations were made through Call Box Customer Contact Solutions (Encino, CA; 888/810-7464) on behalf of Allresnet.com (Phoenix, AZ; 800/892-2108). Since the hotel at the Vienna Airport was expensive and did not have consistently good reviews, I found this off-site location, which is ...