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London is about 415 miles from Edinburgh, but in getting from one to the other, my wife, Anne, and I ended up traveling about 1,400 miles on a bus tour of England, Scotland and Wales with Grand Circle Travel (Boston, MA; 800/221-2610, www.gct.com). 

Our 16-night tour took place April 28-May 15, 2016, and the cost was $3,490 per person, not including airfare. 

As had been our experience before with Grand Circle, it was a great adventure. Our delightful program director, Elaine Sloane, was a font of knowledge who provided many surprises along the way.

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In his letter “Advice for Visitors to Bogotá” (Nov. ’15, pg. 12), Stephen O. Addison, Jr., gave a great overview of Colombia’s capital city. I can only add that my wife, Patti, and I had no difficulty getting pesos from ATMs when we were in Colombia, Oct. 20-29, 2015, and automatic teller machines are more often called cajeros automático or something similar. We found chip-and-PIN card readers to be more common in shops and hotels in Colombia than in Peru or Bolivia, where we were in late April/early May 2015. This was our second trip arranged by Viventura (Tampa, FL; 888/238-1602, www....

Every year in May, Holland celebrates two special days: Day of Remembrance on May 4 and Day of Liberation on May 5.

My husband, Al, and I were in Holland on both of those days in 2005. On the Day of Remembrance, we saw how they decorated military cemeteries with flowers and observed two minutes of silence at 8 p.m. (This was observed throughout Holland, even at traffic stops.)

On the next day, Holland celebrates the end of World War II. At the war memorials and other places, we saw many engraved messages, including, “We are eternally grateful to the Americans and British for...