A month before the trip that my wife, Pnina, and I took to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in January-February ’13, I contacted my local bank and asked them to start saving me new, never-used bills in denominations of $5, $10 and $20.
For our stay in Bangkok, Thailand, during an independent trip to Southeast Asia, my husband, Earl, and I followed the recommendation of an ITN reader (“Woman Driver in Bangkok,” April ’12, pg.
For our stop in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 21-23, 2012, during Oceania Cruises’ 14-day Stockholm-Dover cruise aboard the Nautica, our group of 12 preferred to have a private guide rather than take the ship’s big-bus tour.
