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The “Lady with the seagull” statue has greeted visitors to Opatija, Croatia, since 1956, when she was placed above the Lungomare Promenade. Sculptor Zvonko Car created the work.
Twenty-one readers correctly guessed the picture’s locale, and GLADY LEARNED of Geneva, Illinois, won the drawing.
We thank Daissy Owen of Iowa City, Iowa, for sending in the picture.
I had the opportunity to travel to Mendoza, the attractive city of 100,000-plus in the heart of northern Argentina’s booming viticulture region, in April ’06. While the city is a thriving regional commercial center, it is the huge wine industry — featuring literally scores of wineries (bodegas) in Mendoza and the surrounding districts — that primarily provides both its national identity and its popularity with foreign visitors. Mendoza has an annual 3-day wine festival the first weekend of March.
by Philip Wagenaar, M.D.
Malaria just doesn’t get respect. Until, that is, someone catches it.
Dear reader, the most common question I’m receiving these days is “Will I need a passport?”
Here are a few of the latest travel-book reviews written by ITN readers.
by Lew Toulmin
by Jay Brunhouse
I thoroughly enjoyed Bill Kizorek’s article, “One Shirt, 40,000 Miles. . .” (Dec. ’06, pg. 6). I have the solution to his wet socks problem.
On a mountain in Austria several years ago, my wife, Flory, and I became tired from walking and stopped at the top at a café. We draped our sweaters over the backs of the chairs and ordered two espressos. After paying, we continued our walk. Five minutes later we realized we had forgotten the sweaters.
Since then, whenever we leave a place, a switch flips in our brains, resulting in a large illuminated “STOP” sign. We halt in our tracks and carefully look around to make sure we have not forgotten anything.
May I suggest you do the same?