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Searching for the right place to sleep in France
Columns, January 2009 issue.
by Philip Wagenaar, first of four parts A large gate filled the arch, which gave access to the hotel’s front garden. “Would they have room for us?,” I mused.

Galloping galanthophiles! It’s snowdrop time in Scotland
Columns, January 2009 issue.

Boarding Pass
Columns, December 2008 issue.
Dear Globetrotter:

Travel Tidbits
Travel Tidbits, December 2008 issue.
In the Winelands on the Western Cape of South Africa, my husband, Maurice, and I stopped in Tulbagh for lunch, ordering the tasty traditional dish bobotie (spicy minced meat topped with egg).

Searching for Harry Potter in and around London
Features, December 2008 issue.

An insider in London
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
The weakened dollar certainly affects our US friends who visit us here in Outer London (Wimbledon), but a bit of research and knowledge can reveal good deals and plenty of freebies.

Extorted in Moldova
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
My wife, Nenko, and I took a 3-week trip to Romania, Moldova and Ukraine in September-October ’08.

Lugano’s Parco del Tassino
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
My wife, Paula, and I traveled on a shuttle bus from Milan’s Malpensa Airport in Italy to Lugano, Switzerland, in May ’08, and one of our fellow passengers was an engaging American college undergraduate returning from her home in Arizona to her school, Franklin College (

Cruising the Danube — Eastern European discoveries
Features, December 2008 issue.

In Portugal, ask a teen
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
Rick Steves, in his September ’08 article on Portugal, missed an important point when he commented on the country’s changes and the improvements in roads and road travel.