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Bardur Snaefellsas, a character from an ancient saga, is the subject of September’s picture.
A stone-faced representation of him stands on the Snaefellsas Peninsula near Arnarstapi, Iceland.
Seven readers wrote in with the right answer, and DOLORES L. URQUHART of Foster City, California, won the drawing.
(Part 3 of 3 on Morocco)
I first visited Egypt 22 years ago. On my fourth trip to the country, in November 2004, I traveled with my 25-year-old daughter, Katie. I wanted to see her eyes light up at the sights that make Egypt one of this world’s greatest tourist destinations. I wanted her to say, 40 years from now, “Way back in ’04, I saw the pyramids for the first time with my MOM.”
Katie could only take one week off from her job. Friends and relatives questioned, “Only one week? What can you do in just one week?”
Well, as it turned out, quite a lot.
(Second of two parts)
In the last issue I analyzed the ins and outs of bill paying abroad. In this issue, I offer additional suggestions on this topic.
When we return from an adventure, we count on photographs to tell the story and convey the excitement and the feeling of the place we’ve been. But often we end up with “George in front of the Eiffel Tower,” “George beside the Blue Danube,” “George riding on a camel,” “George staring into the camera”. . . . You can just hear your audience yawn.
One of the most mysterious and arcane topics among airplane travelers is jet lag and its incapacitating effects on the traveler. Having firsthand experience from traveling frequently over a 6-year period from New York to numerous destinations in Asia, I have found that jet lag is a debilitating experience that, fortunately, can be dealt with.
by Chris Springer, Contributing Editor
Too often, we cruise passengers think of our cabin stewards and stewardesses as 2-dimensional persons, without families, lives or futures. So aboard Crystal Symphony on a cruise through the Mediterranean in the summer of 2005, my wife and I decided to have a chat with our energetic, attractive, 24-year-old stewardess, Rasa Janonyte of Klaipeda, Lithuania. The following reflects our conversation.
Q: What does your name mean?
A: Rasa means “dew.”
Q: Tell us about your family.
There is a myth that travelers cannot visit small European villages and towns by train. It gratifies me that my e-mail shows that more and more readers are discovering the large number of less-well-known cities and villages that they easily reach by train. A case in point is Germany’s Rhine-Main S-Bahn, the rapid-transit system that takes them through the state of Hessen and beyond.
We wanted to share a nice “find” we made in Salalah, Oman, while on a cruise in April ’05. It is a great cab driver and tour guide named Khalid Bakheet (phone 99489979 or contact his friend, Ali Atif Al Yafai, who is the assistant front office manager at the Hilton Salalah Resort, Box 699, Salalah, Oman 211; phone +968-23-211234 or fax 23-210084).