Alter Wartesaal (Johannisstrasse 11, Cologne, Germany; phone 49 [0] 221-912 885-0 or visit www.wartesaal.de [in German only]): located adjacent to Cologne’s Hauptbahnhof, this fine restaurant is in the rail station’s old first-class lounge.

To get to the restaurant, exit the hauptbahnhof through the doors that face the Dom (Cologne’s cathedral). As you exit, the restaurant will be on your left. Due to the extensive construction in the area, you will have to take a lengthy and very...

My wife, Mary, and I took a 35-day cruise on Holland America Line’s Statendam, embarking Nov. 17, ’05. This was a wonderful experience for us, even though we had traveled on many shorter cruises. The stops in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Easter Island, Tahiti, Bora Bora, American Samoa and New Zealand all were excellent, but I want to provide information to ITN readers about one special guide we had on Easter Island.

ITN contributed to our finding this guide, Patricio Rojas (e-mail patricio...

We visited the camera market in Warsaw, Poland, in June ’05. With new and used cameras, computer equipment, cell phones, etc., it’s open only on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ask the taxi driver for Gielda Fotograficzna (Photographic Market), located in the Centrum neighborhood at the Stodola Students Club (ulica Batorego 10, Warsaw 02-591, Poland). There is a small admission fee to the building. A flea market of related equipment is adjacent; there’s free admission to that.

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