Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 502nd issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine, the one largely written by the people who read it, frequent world travelers.

There’s lots of news to tell you about this month, so I’ll get right into it, starting with updates on the independence votes in semiautonomous regions of Iraq and Spain.

• In Iraq, the state of Kurdistan, along with some outlying areas under Kurdish control, voted on Aug. 25 in favor of...

A number of years back, in London, I visited the Museum of Garden History, as it was then called, and spent a happy hour immersed in old gardening tools, artifacts, drawings, photographs and paintings. 

During that early visit to the museum, located in the ancient and deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, across the Thames from Big Ben and right next door to Lambeth Palace, I was charmed by the displays but fell in love with the courtyard’s knot garden, which...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 501st issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.

As you can see, we have just passed a publication milestone. And our celebrating includes you, each of our subscribers, because it is your participation that has made the success of this magazine possible.

We print in ITN trip reports and articles submitted by subscribers. Whenever you come back from a trip, write us about something that other travelers would appreciate knowing.

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