ITN printed a number of letters on the subject of using the Internet while traveling. These appeared in the October ’03 through January ’04 issues. A few more have been received since then with useful information. Here they are.
On a trip to the U.K. in November ’03, in Edinburgh I noticed they had telephone kiosks on the streets with Internet terminals in them.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 351st issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.
Adventure Travel for the Mildly Adventuresome is written by Wayne Wirtanen
(First of two parts)
by Chris Springer, Contributing Editor
Having cruised on the Star Princess twice, for a month each time, I found the review of the ship in Philip Wagenaar’s August ’04 “Discerning Traveler” column a bit too glowing and one-sided. Our first journey was on her inaugural voyage in 2002 from Singapore to Los Angeles, and our second cruise was in March ’04 from Bangkok to Venice. I also have logged dozens of cruises with various other cruise lines. I offer the following observations.
The single most important, not-to-miss place in Cairo is the Egyptian Museum. We wish we’d had more than one day there on our visit in March ’97, but the one we had was wonderful.
(Part 6 of 6 on Spain)
By Julie Skurdenis, second of two parts (jump to part 1)
You’ve seen it dozens of times in movies and on TV: a bird’s-eye view of a red sports car screeching through hairpin curves one after another, racing down a precipitous granite mountain with a thousand-foot plunge below into inaccessible ravines. Don’t you wish you were driving the sports car?
Now the camera zooms down onto the sports car, but in this Mercedes commercial it isn’t a red sports car. It is a yellow postbus of the Swiss Postal Bus network negotiating with eardrum-blasting, trumpeting sounds the staggering curves of the Maloja Pass in Switzerland’s Canton Graubünden.
A discovery! I purchased a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) phone for a trip to Egypt/Jordan in November ’04. Although there was no need for lengthy conversations with my progeny, I did feel a need for a phone should a crisis of some kind occur.
This phone is a winner. It cost $49 (I believe $52 with tax) and works in 130 countries but not the U.S. There are no minimums, fees or service charges. You pay only for the calls you make.