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I was in northern and southern Ethiopia, Jan. 9-27, ’05, and I can heartily recommend our travel guide and agent. We have traveled overseas from one to four times a year since 1981, and all three of us on the Ethiopia tour agreed that this was the best guide we’d ever had on any such trip.

We heartily recommend Kademkachew Wosenseged of Dinknesh Travel (e-mail mulutour@telecom.net.et or visit www.ethiopiatravel.com).

We found Ethiopia to be a very diverse, wonderful experience in terms of sights, scenery and travel. In the north, we enjoyed Christian Orthodox churches,...

In contrast to the opinion expressed in the reader’s letter “Tivoli, a Tarnished Treat” (Sept. ’03, pg. 18), the Tivoli that I visited in Copenhagen in September ’03 was a highlight of my trip. So enchanting was the theme park that I just had to go two nights in a row because I didn’t get enough the first night.

There is a cosmopolitan theme that runs the gauntlet in this beautiful amusement park. It isn’t Disneyland, Six Flags Over Texas or Coney Island. The park has its own flavor that is as delicate as Danish china and as flavorful as pickled herring in onions and wine sauce....

My wife, Sigrid, and I took an extended road trip in Europe in August-November 2010. While in Germany, we were warned about driving on the toll roads in Austria without first purchasing a vignette.* We were not alerted about needing a vignette in Slovenia, however, and it never crossed our minds.

Entering Slovenia at Trieste on Oct. 25, on the toll road we stopped at the tollgate to pick up a toll ticket. In our experience on toll roads, you get an entry billet that is to be turned in upon exiting the toll road, at which time you pay the appropriate amount. In this instance, however...