Hotels and Lodging

An 85-year-old on a solo trip around the world, I left Dallas on Jan. 4, 2017, and returned Jan. 28. I traveled 30,000 miles, spent 100 hours in airplanes and visited eight new countries.

I took 11 different flights, one of which was with Buddha Air over the Himalayas, including a look at Mount Everest.

Subscribers were invited to write in about places, outside of the US, where they’ve had rewarding sightings of birds. (We cannot accept more submissions.)

In addition to their providing details about the types of birds they saw, we asked travelers to each tell us where they were (including any contact info) and the year, time of year and even time of day of each sighting. We also wanted to know how difficult it was to reach an area, what equipment would be recommended and what the weather was like.

We printed a few letters last month and are continuing with locations in Latin America.

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We took a private, customized tour to Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Trinidad & Tobago in March 2014 arranged by Jim Turner at Amazing Peru ...

Housed in the former offices of Harland & Wolff, the shipbuilding company that designed and constructed the HMS Titanic, the Titanic Hotel Belfast (Queen’s Road, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, No. Ireland, BT3 9DT, U.K.; phone +44 289 508 2000, www.titanichotelbelfast.com) opened in August 2017.

The hotel’s 119 rooms, some of which face the slipway where the Titanic was launched in May 1911, are furnished in Art Deco style to match the building’s restored original architecture.