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Cruising Scotland’s Caledonian Canal

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. ...

Snippets of New Zealand (Second of two parts)

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

—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 & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under

Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under
by Jennifer Petoff, San Francisco, CA My husband, Scott, and I recently moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco to pursue a new job opportunity. In the process of relocating, we were able to carve out time for a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand in March ’07. The trip represented the perfect opportunity to put ...

New Zealand with Tourmasters

Freestyle Holidays (Somerset Mews, 9/5 Rosebery Place, Balmain, NSW 2041, Australia; phone [61 2] 1300 799 197 or visit www. freestyle.co.au) offers many different tour packages, and we chose their 12-day “North and South Islands” tour. Tourmasters (120 Albert St., Box 949, Auckland, New Zealand; phone 64 9 359 8380 or visit www.tourmasters.co.nz) helped us ...

July Report Cards

FIRST, FAST & FURIOUS ? The following is a sampling of reports received from ITN readers around the globe. ITN invites you to join our corps of reporters ? just drop a card in the mail while the travel impressions are fresh in your mind. To obtain your ITN Report Cards, send a self-addressed, stamped, ...

Hebridean Island Cruises

For those who fervently believe that “less is more” and “smaller is better,” we recommend Hebridean Island Cruises, Ltd. (Griffin House, Broughton Hall, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 3AN, England; phone 44 [0] 1756-704704 or visit www.hebridean.co.uk). This English line operates two ships. We cruised on the Hebridean Princess in 1994, 1998 and 2000 and on the ...

Waiting for assistance

ITN was mailed a copy of the following letter, sent by a reader to Traveler’s Emergency Network (TEN) on Dec. 8. My husband and I have been members of your organization since February 1998, and we have traveled abroad with more confidence due to our perception that our membership fees ensured we’d have “the best when ...

Travel Tidbits

 Delightful Viterbo, Italy, north of Rome, has a colorful past. It was founded by the Etruscans and then became a temporary residence of popes in the 13th century. Every year, May 1-3, the streets are filled with flowers for the annual flower festival, San Pellegrino in Fiore, and on the evening of Sept. 3 there ...

Customized NZ tour

I spent two wonderful weeks on the South Island of New Zealand in March ’05. On the Internet, I found South Sea Mermaids, Ltd. (55A Townsend Rd., Miramar, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand; phone [from the U.S.] 01164 973 0675, e-mail info@southseamermaids.co.nz or visit www.southseamermaids.co.nz), which advertises tours for women. Liz Sullivan designed a custom trip for ...
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