Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 449th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. In ITN, in addition to a selection of hard news items and other travel-related information, we print our subscribers’ travel accounts and discoveries. Our subscribers are people who fly and cruise abroad frequently, and they write not for profit but for the benefit of other travelers.
(Part 2 of 3 on Colombia)
For the second portion of our February 2013 Colombian adventure, “Colombia’s Colonial Jewels & the Coffee Triangle,” in which I was hosted by Overseas Adventure Travel, our group traveled by air from Medellín to Pereira via Bogotá.
Pereira is one of the three legs of the Coffee Triangle, along with the cities Manizales and Armenia. On our final descent, viewing the coffee plantations below — a veritable sea of greenery — served to heighten my excitement.
Travel insurance policies come in two flavors: those with primary payers and those with secondary payers. The “payer” is the insurance company. Secondary payers cover claims for overseas medical expenses only after any other insurance company has paid whatever it will pay. Primary medical coverage pays first regardless of any other insurance you may have.
And here is the question I will be answering in this article: ‘In addition to what’s stated above, what are the differences between primary- and secondary-payer policies?’
In January 2013, my husband, John, and I visited Sri Lanka, a place that had been on our “wanna visit” list for several years. The small island country in the Indian Ocean is home to eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites plus beautiful beaches.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 448th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.
(First of three parts)
(Second of two parts on Italy)
It was February 16, 1990. Only the tops of palm trees gave a hint of what might lay beneath. Workmen began to chop away with machetes at monstrous blankets of undergrowth, a 70-year accumulation of fallen trees, brambles, ivy and once-tidy boxwood hedges grown rampant into high, impenetrable walls.
Completely obliterated under the accumulated debris were acres of gardens laid out on land that came into ownership of the Tremayne family in the 1700s.
If you read the general press, you probably believe that the following statements are true:
