Helmsley, England, a gorgeous village in the Yorkshire Moors which we visited April 10-12, 2008, boasts an exceptional restaurant within the Black Swan Hotel (Market Place, Helmsley, YO62 5BJ, U.K.; phone 01144 1439 770466, www.blacks
Not many archaeological sites can claim they were founded by survivors from the Trojan War or that they were visited by Aeneas. Butrint can claim both. Butrint, located in southern Albania close to the Greek border, is the country’s best-known archaeological site.
My daughter Sheila and I visited Malta with Road Scholar (11 Ave. de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111; 800/466-7762, www.roadscholar.org), Feb. 17-27, 2008. The program-only rate was $2,684 double.
You can hear the Vienna Boys’ Choir sing at Sunday Mass in the Imperial Chapel at the Hofburg (Hofburgkapelle) in Austria’s capital. You are actually attending Mass, but I would recommend that you buy tickets.
On July 29, 2008, I dropped my wife at the Brussels airport at around 7:15 a.m. and then caught the train to Brussels Midi. I arrived there just before 8:00.
