Food & Wine

by Philip Wagenaar

(First of two parts)

In the first of the letters compiled for “What to Eat Where” (Jan. ’10, pg. 42), there was an error in the conversion of the price of a thali; 150 to 250 rupees does not equal $1 but is more like $3.25-$5.50.

by Thomas Johanneck, McLean, VA

Although South Americans and Europeans of Latin origin have known and traveled Uruguay for quite some time, in planning my trip I found useful Internet information in English to be elusive, and finding a US-based company with Uruguay-only offerings proved impossible.

I’ve led small-group tours to Cinque Terre in Italy five times since 2006, most recently in May ’09. Here are some thoughts.

My husband, John, and I have been to Singapore several times. Our son Jim was an exchange student for one semester at the National University of Singapore and often ate at hawker stalls, informal streetside eateries.

My wife, Mary, and I took a tour of Western Africa, Oct. 8-Nov. 2, 2009, with ElderTreks (Toronto, ON, Canada; 800/741-7956). We visited Niger, Benin, Togo and Ghana.

My wife, Sandra, and I spent two weeks in Italy with our daughter and 14-year-old grandson in July ’09.

My sister Betty, our nephew Joe and I spent a wonderful week exploring Christmas markets in Germany, Dec. 1-9, 2008, visiting Munich, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Nuremburg and Berlin. We were frugal and did the trip for a total of about $1,300 each, which included the airfare round trip from Chicago O’Hare to Munich, a four-day railpass, food and hotels.

We ate our way through sausages, kraut, stollen, marzipan, sugared nuts and the warm mulled wine at the market stalls.

ITN was mailed a copy of the following letter, sent by a subscriber to Value World Tours.

by Dorothy Aksamit, Sausalito, CA