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Tell ITN about the funniest thing that ever happened to you while traveling in a foreign country. There are no restrictions on length. (ITN prints no info on destinations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.) The ITN staff will choose each month’s winner, who will receive a free one-year subscription to ITN. Entries not chosen cannot be acknowledged.
This month’s winner is LES LENZ-NER of Poway, CA:
We attended “Austrian Woodcarving Weeks” in Elbigen-alp, Austria, Oct. 10-24, ’04. This was at the Geisler-Moroder Austrian Woodcarving School (A-6652 Elbigenalp 63, Austria; phone 43-5634-6215, e-mail geisler-moroder@aon.at or visit www.geisler-moroder.com. Geisler-Moroder’s U.S. representative is Carl G. Wiggins; phone 205/979-1111 or e-mail wiggs7@ aol.com).
The woodcarvers’ program cost $1,602 double and the noncarvers’ program, $1,102, including daily breakfast and dinner, with a 5-lunch ticket available for approximately $22.50. Airfare was not included.
My husband, Jim, and I thought we were smart, well-prepared travelers with our duplicate passport photos and our extra antibiotics. After all, we had traveled extensively and Jim even wrote travel articles for various newspaper travel sections and ultimately even the photography column for ITN. I guess we were in total denial about the possibility of actual death on a trip.
In 2003 my wife was badly “burned” by telephone calls she made to the USA from overseas, so I researched the market and came up with an excellent service: Iscom, Inc. (IsCard.com Division, One Silicon Alley Plaza, 90 William St., Ste. 702, New York, NY 10038; phone 212/324-1100, e-mail info@iscard.com or visit www.iscom.net).
It’s available toll-free in over 50 countries. Sample per-minute rates to the USA include the following: 7¢ from the U.K., 9¢ from Austria and 10¢ from Australia.
by Rob Sangster, Nova Scotia
On GREECE, December ’04. . .
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 348th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.