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Teach a man to fish. . . and he’ll never leave Hungary.
December’s photograph is the Fisherman’s Bastion on Castle Hill in Budapest, Hungary.
Seventy-two readers submitted answers and 56 were correct.
The winners of the drawing are Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS L. RUSSELL of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Periodically, in future I plan to do “Under the Microscope” columns which will examine in detail various terms and aspects of tours and touring.
This first column will take a close look at advertised tour departure dates listed by tour and other travel operators. When the departure dates are attached to group tour products as compared to individual tours, examination is recommended for the careful, prudent traveler.
—Timeless Roads of the Mideast and Mediterranean is written by Ed Kinney.
(Part 5 of 6 on Spain)
It was raining when we left Amsterdam on our way to France in May 2003. I put the car on autopilot and drove south until the sun came out.
Is its prevention worse than the disease?
—by Chris Springer, Contributing Editor
“Crete” by Barry Unsworth (2004, National Geographic. ISBN 0792266439 — 170 pp., $20 hardcover).
Island paradise or hell on Earth? Three New Zealand judges apparently took the latter view as they sentenced six of Pitcairn island’s few male inhabitants to two to six years in prison for numerous rapes and assaults that took place over a 40-year period on the last remnant of the British empire in the South Pacific.
—All Aboard is written by Jay Brunhouse
My husband and I traveled by train to Berlin, Germany, in June ’04. We used public transportation there (U-Bahn and S-Bahn), seeing all of the exciting landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate, once a dividing point between East and West Berlin and now a symbol of German unity.
We visited the Kaiser-Wilhelm Church, or Gedächtnis-Kirche. I was impressed with the historical pageantry done in mosaic.
The Pergamon Museum was outstanding, and the Reichstag building was an architectural wonder with far-reaching views of the city.
I was taken on a private tour of cathedrals and monastic sites in northern England by Michael Boote of English Country Holidays (West View Cottage, Town St., Sutton-cum-Lound, Retford, DN228PT, England; visit www.merviel.com). My tour took place July 6-11, ’04, and cost $2,600. I was traveling alone. For two or more people, it would have cost appreciably less per individual.