Features
A self-designed study-abroad stay in Switzerland
As a senior in college, I had yet to have a study-abroad experience.
Rating foreign tour companies that customize tours
In several previous issues (including last month’s), we printed letters from subscribers who responded to the information request of Yvonne Richter, who wrote, “My husband and I like to take customized private tours, and we prefer to use tour companies and guides that are local to the destinations.
Enchanted by the abundant wildlife on a small-group tour of Southern Africa
As half of a group of four friends, we traveled with Odysseys Unlimited in October 2015 on their “Africa’s Wildlife” tour.
Traveling through ‘Titoland’– a rail adventure through the countries once collectively called Yugoslavia
The white stone of the Triple Bridge shimmered in the evening lights. In the background, the pink façade of the Franciscan church off Prešernov trg provided a beautiful color contrast. What an impressive sight on the first evening of my May 2016 adventure in “Titoland”!
Exploring Svalbard’s Arctic wilderness
Anticipating days with crystal-clear blue skies and the opportunity to trek in the footsteps of early North Pole explorers, to view soaring mountain peaks, icebergs, polar bear
Following the grape harvest in Portugal, Italy and Germany
We have visited Europe several times in the fall, but never before with the primary objective of experiencing the vineyards at harvesttime.