I read with interest Fred Steinberg’s article about cruises along Norway’s coast with Hurtigruten (June ’10, pg. 18) and would like to add a few comments. My wife and I traveled on the line’s ship Midnatsol from Kirkenes to Bergen in June 1994 and thoroughly enjoyed the trip.

We spent a full day in Kirkenes before boarding, and we recommend that people do that. Kirkenes is a very interesting place, with lots of history. During World War II the Germans used it as a base to try to cut...

My husband and our three adult children and I rented an apartment in Friedrichshafen, Germany, home of the Zeppelin Museum, in June ’10. Friedrichshafen is on the shore of Lake Constance, and we took the ferry there from Romanshorn, Switzerland.

We rented through the Internet at the owner’s website (www.ferienhausmiete.de/ferienhaus_suche.php?land=1). Mr. Deutschle met us at the apartment and showed us how everything worked.

The holiday flat was very clean. It had two bedrooms...

Because of a trademark dispute, Elderhostel has dropped the name Exploritas, to which it changed this year (July ’10, pg. 41), and now will run its programs under the name Road Scholar (Boston, MA; 800/454-5768, www.roadscholar.org), a name it has long held.

I went on four Elderhostel programs during the period it was called Exploritas (a name I always refused to use) and, as far as the emphasis toward seniors was concerned, found no real differences in the programs I had selected....