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Twenty-seven readers correctly guessed the subject of the picture in the April issue: the Notre Dame Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Viet-Nam.
The winner of the drawing was GORDON KILGORE of Sharpsburg, GA.
On a 2002 Mediterranean cruise aboard Holland America Line’s Noordam, Naples was the last stop of our 10-day journey.
We’d been to Naples many times but had not really visited the city. Rather, it was a jumping-off point for visits to Capri, Sorrento, the Amalfi coast, Pompeii and Herculaneum.
We fell in love with this picture-perfect city, with the gorgeous spectacle of the Bay of Naples (above) in azure Mediterranean splendor.
Over 5,000 years ago, a man climbed up to the Schnalstal glacier in what is now Italy’s Dolomites and died. He was found by two hikers in 1991, with his clothes and equipment, mummified and frozen. Since March 1998, the “Iceman” has been on exhibit at the Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano.
At Kibaale National Park in western Uganda, near the municipality of Fort Portal, visitors can join a guided trip to observe chimpanzees in the wild. For groups of, currently, not more than four members per day, the primates’ denesting in the morning and the nesting in the late afternoon can be observed at close quarters.
The special guided trip commences at 5:00 in the morning and ends as late as 9 at night, offering complete insight into the primates’ behavior from daybreak until nightfall.
Luggagefree, Inc., ships luggage anywhere in the U.S. as well as to Canada and Europe. The company picks up luggage at a designated time from the traveler’s home or office, wraps it in heavy plastic, ships it to the destination, tracks it along the way and notifies the owner via e-mail, fax or phone when the bags have been delivered. At the end of the stay, it ships the luggage back.
The company ships standard luggage as well as skis, bikes, cribs and other bulky items.
AirportParkingReservations.com offers travelers departing from 65 airports throughout the U.S. and Canada the ability to make advance, guaranteed reservations for long-term parking.
Taking Web surfing to new heights, Lufthansa soon will offer its passengers aboard jumbo jets the opportunity to browse the Internet and access their e-mail with FlyNet. Anything that can be accomplished over the Internet on the ground with a wireless laptop, passengers will be able to do at 30,000 feet.
FlyNet, the first commercially available wireless Internet and Intranet service, will be available in all cabin classes. Passengers will pay a flat fee of $30 for unlimited access during a flight. There will be a pay-per-minute option where the first 30 minutes will cost $10.
The complete oeuvre of Carel Fabritius (1622-1654), a pupil of Rembrandt, is on display in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands, Sept. 23, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005.
The visa fee for American citizens wishing to travel to Turkey was reduced on April 1, 2004, to $20, down 80% from its previous cost of $100.