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I had a mild case of polio as a child and had no problems with mobility for many years. However, in my late 40s or early 50s I started having weakness, first in my left leg and later in my right. As time has passed (I am now 64), I have progressed from having to use my husband’s arm to steady myself to, first, one cane, then two canes, then a Rollator (walker with four wheels) and finally a scooter.

I mention this because no two handicapped persons will have the same needs. I can still walk short distances if I am careful and watch my feet constantly, since they have been known to...

After checking into our group’s London hotel in March ’03, my roommate and I caught the underground (the ticket seller advised us to buy a day pass instead of a round-trip ticket) to go to the Imperial War Museum to see the many World War II tanks, planes, guns, V-1 and V-2 rockets, Enigma secret code machine, etc.

At El Alamein in Egypt and Normandy in France, I saw NO German tanks. This museum had a German tank buster on a Panzer chassis with an 88mm gun in the turret. A BIG BABY!

A couple of days later we went to the British Museum. There are 18,000 articles on display,...

My husband and I booked a “Grand European River Cruise” with Vantage Deluxe World Travel which offered a voyage from the North Sea to the Black Sea. Our departure date of Aug. 15, ’03, coincided with the hottest and driest summer in Europe in the past 150 years.

As time for our departure approached, we became concerned about the situation after reading that the Danube River in Eastern Europe was at its lowest level in years. The story appeared in several newspapers and magazines. Two days before our scheduled flight, we called the Vantage office in Boston expressing our concerns. We...