(First of two parts)
On a beautiful spring day in the year 2000, my wife, Flory, and I were picnicking on a shady, grassy expanse outside the town of Dijon in France. Our bicycle pannier bags were content resting against the trunk of a huge chestnut tree, having had a rigorous workout during our morning “commute.”
My husband, John, and I were in Seoul, Korea, in March 2013 and enjoyed a number of meals.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 456th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. With this issue, we have been publishing ITN for a full 38 years!
ITN was the first public forum where international travelers could candidly share notes. Before this magazine came along, there were no travel publications that talked about anything other than rosy sunsets and smiling waiters. ITN continues to tell it like it is.
(3rd of 3 parts on Cuba)
Our group was traversing the heavily forested mountains of the Baracoa region in eastern Cuba via La Farola, a 2-lane highway completed in 1965 by the Castro government. At that time, the roadway was a much-heralded triumph of the Cuban Revolution because it finally connected isolated Baracoa, formerly accessible only by sea, with Santiago de Cuba and the rest of Cuba.
(First of two parts)
On each of our trips to Vilnius, my husband, Paul, and I make it a point to leave Old Town, where we always base ourselves and where we spend most of our time, to stroll along Gediminas Prospect in New Town. It’s a one-mile walk along a route lined with cafés and shops, made longer by our many stops to eat and shop.
The language barrier used to be a big problem for American travelers. I remember leading tour groups through France and was constantly impressed at how Americans expected the French to speak English. People would go to the post office in some little town and be frustrated because there was no help in English and the people weren’t friendly. I had to explain to them that small-town French postal clerks are every bit as speedy, cheery and multilingual as they are here in the USA.
(Part 1 of 2 on Paris)
Two Paris museums, the Musée de Montmartre and the Musée de National du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the Middle Ages, commonly known as the Cluny), would seem to have nothing in common, save that both hold collections… until one takes note of their gardens.
Back in the good old days of the 1950s, most ocean liners had a few single cabins available for their single customers. The builders of those ships realized that, yes, there actually were single people in the population!
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 455th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine, the one that invites its subscribers (including you) to share travel recommendations, tips and warnings from their experiences overseas. We’ll supplement those with additional researched material, columnists’ articles, relevant travel news and just plain fun.
Let’s start with the latest word on an online problem affecting travelers.
(2nd of 3 parts on Cuba)
This pristine, nature-infused land of mystery was the eastern Cuba I had envisioned in planning my spring 2013 return visit to the long-forbidden island. The isolated Baracoa region was the focus of the second leg of my hosted journey with the Grand Circle Foundation. I was part of a small group of nine enthusiastic adventurers traveling under the US government’s “People to People” program.