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Travel Tidbits

Travel Tidbits, February 2008 issue
Travel Tidbits
  On São Miguel, Azores, the Furnas Valley is covered with geysers and thermal pools. We watched as our lunch of cozido (stew) was cooked in the ground by geothermal energy, then we drove to the Terra Nostra Garden Hotel (www.jpmoser.com/terra_nostra_garden_hotel-r.html) where it was served to us in grand style. There were fantastic botanical gardens and ...

Tipping personal butlers

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
We had our first encounter with a personal butler at the Royal Livingstone Hotel in Livingstone, Zambia, where my husband and I stayed two nights, June 21-23, 2007. We saw the butler only two times. The first was when she explained the amenities of the room to us (usually done by a bellboy, in our experience). ...

Southern Africa by rail

Travelers' Intercom, October 2007 issue
My husband, Jim, and I took a trip from Cape Town, South Africa, to Chobe National Park in Botswana by way of Victoria Falls, Feb. 19-March 5, 2007. The trip was set up by Deborah at Wild African Ventures (10505 Wheatland Ave., Shadow Hills, CA 91040; 800/358-8530, www.wildafricanventures.com) and included a 16-day train trip with Shongololo ...

Southern Africa trains

Travelers' Intercom, October 2007 issue
In July ’06 I made a deposit of $2,400 for trips on the following Shongololo Express trains in Southern Africa: Good Hope, March 6-21, 2007 ($3,680), Dune Express, March 27-April 11 ($3,905) and Southern Cross, April 11-26 ($4,350) — total cost, $11,935. So it was with concern that I read in ITN the news item “South ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, October 2007 issue
Boarding Pass
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 380th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. The following may explain some things about air travel fatigue. Airplane cabins pressurized to equal the air pressure found at altitudes up to 6,000 feet generally cause passengers no discomfort, but the discomfort increases dramatically among some people as the pressure nears that of 8,000 ...

Africa — Wheelchair-accessible travel in Botswana, Zambia & South Africa

Features, September 2007 issue
Africa — Wheelchair-accessible travel in Botswana, Zambia & South Africa
by Sarah Rosenbloom, Chicago, IL From December 15, 2005, to January 4, 2006, my son and I took a wonderful trip to Botswana, Zambia and South Africa. What set this trip apart from others was that it was a combination of a 7-day completely guided safari in Botswana plus land arrangements in Zambia and South Africa, ...

Impressed with a 6-country tour of East Africa

Features, March 2007 issue
Impressed with a 6-country tour of East Africa
by Claus Hirsch, New York, NY In late March ’06 I embarked on my first trip to Africa. It was the start of a 3½-week vacation like no other I had ever taken. Dispelling misconceptions Many impressions are embedded in my mind after visiting six countries in East Africa. Three of those visits, admittedly, were very brief, but ...

Natural wonders of the world

Travelers' Intercom, November 2006 issue
In no specific order, following are the places I have visited that I consider to be the greatest of the natural wonders of our world. (The Grand Canyon in Arizona would be on this list, but I’m concentrating on sights covered by ITN, those outside of North America and the Caribbean.) Several entries from my list ...

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass, October 2006 issue
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 368th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. In two incidents this year near Sabana Park in San José, Costa Rica, robbers forcibly stole laptop computers, once from a European man walking along and once from an American, who was shot twice in the leg and clubbed on the head when ...

Looking for luxury in Africa

Features, July 2006 issue
Looking for luxury in Africa
by Misty Patton, Thornton, CO You could imagine my delight when my fiancé and I decided a honeymoon in Africa was in order. After all, what better way to begin our new life together than by celebrating with an exotic destination? Looking for luxury However, we didn’t want a walk down the Frommer’s budget-minded path for our honeymoon; ...