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On the day after Christmas 2007 we were in Brest, France, and found many of the restaurants closed for vacation. After a little searching, we found Les Caudalies (1 rue Malakoff, 29200 Brest), a 36-seat neighborhood/family restaurant.

Once we were seated, the host/waiter/owner brought the menu, written on a small chalkboard and listing four starters and five entrées.

Of the starters, one of us had the Marine salad (quarters of two kinds of crab, several small shrimp, a slice of tuna and mackerel and two oysters); a second had 24 medium shrimp in a cream garlic sauce; a third...

My wife and I, both experienced world travelers, transferred through the Frankfurt, Germany, airport en route from Los Angeles to Lithuania and back in July ’08. We found landing at Terminal 1 and transferring to Terminal 2 (and vice versa) extremely difficult to accomplish.

There was construction going on in much of the area, and though my wife speaks German and could read all the signs (some of which were in English), they were confusing and not adequate. In addition, the distance between terminals was enormous.

On our way to Lithuania, the six in our family group took the...

William Lewis of Johns Island, South Carolina, and his wife missed their US Airways flight out of Los Angeles after their Thai Airways flight arrived late from Bangkok. William told ITN that they still would have caught their flight to Charleston if their luggage had not taken so long to unload because the “Priority” tags had been ripped off of all four bags. (The tags went missing on their outbound Thai Air flight as well.)

They spent the night at an airport hotel and went back to the US Air desk the next morning three hours before the next-available flight. They stood in a long...