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On a September trip to Australia, we went on two tours from Tangalooma Island Resort (Box 1102, Eagle Farm, QLD 4009, Australia; phone +61 7 3637 2118, fax 3268 6299, www.tangalooma.com), on Moreton Island off of Brisbane.

I wish I would have planned for additional days to relax in this peaceful place. The resort had many restaurants plus kids’ programs and many activities for adults, such as sand tobogganing, ATV tours, beach cricket, bird-watching tours, surf skiing, jet ski tours, parasailing, helicopter rides, a dugong cruise, snorkeling the wrecks, scuba diving and much more...

My wife, Arlene, and I went to Frankfurt, Germany, for the Christmas markets and were surprised to find a paucity of hotels in Old Town.

• After searching the Internet, we found the small, family-owned Hotel am Dom (Kannengiessergasse 3, 60311 Frankfurt am Main; phone 0 69 138203 0), which we can recommend.

It’s adjacent to the Dom Saint Bartholomew cathedral, in the heart of Old Town, within five to 10 minutes’ walk of the three Christmas markets at the Römerburg, Paulsplatz and Mainkai. It’s also near the Zeil (Frankfurt’s famous shopping street), various museums and the...

New Zealand’s South Island has it all: alps, glaciers, rainforests, sandy beaches and swinging bridges, just to mention a few. And an excellent way to see it all is with Jan King’s New Zealand Travellers (169 Cable Bay Road, RD1, Nelson 7071, N.Z.; phone [64] 3 545 2546), an advertiser in ITN.

I had done this itinerary in ’97 with the previous owner of New Zealand Travellers and was so taken by the experience that I decided to do it one more time while this 72-year-body could still get around reasonably well. So on Jan. 5, 2011, I boarded Holland America Line...