Visitors to the site pictured in our February-issue mystery photo are rewarded with a 360-degree view of Osaka, Japan, and a panorama of Osaka Bay. To get to the deck offering that view, and back down, requires a long escalator ride inside each of two (now translucent) glass-enclosed escalators inside the Umeda Sky Building.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 518th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.
After a visit to Egypt some years ago, I developed a particular interest in the tombs of the pharaohs and their queens.
Carol Anderson asked, "Are there any cards that do trip-cancellation coverage better" (than that provided by the United MileagePlus Explorer Visa card from Chase)? Yes, I know of one that's better, but it's very pricey: the United MileagePlus Club Visa card from Chase.*
At $450 a year, this card has a hefty annual fee, but among its many perks is a one-year membership to all the United Club airport lounges, which was important for my husband and me when the lounges at Newark Liberty International Airport were being renovated and not allowing anyone but members in. ...
