History

by Julie Skurdenis

by Jennifer Petoff; San Francisco, CA

I’ve learned a valuable lesson: don’t neglect the small ads in ITN.

In a writing “contest,” ITN posed the question “What makes Madrid “Madrid”? The window for submissions is closed, and in the last two issues we printed a few of the entries. Here are a few more. Other cities will be the subjects of future essay contests, with more prizes.

On our first morning in Madrid, my brother looked out over the city and exclaimed, “Where are the monuments like in Paris and Rome? What is there to do here?”

(Part 3 of 3 on Egypt)

by Julie Skurdenis

by Lynn Remly, Hudson, OH

by Dorothy Aksamit, Sausalito, CA

by Marilyn Lutzker, Sunnyside, NY

There are advantages and disadvantages to being older. Neither my friend (at age 81) nor I (77) wanted the responsibility of driving in Italy, but I am old enough to have a son with adult children, himself, who was willing to devote a week to driving his elders around.