travel insurance articles

—Timeless Roads of the Mideast and Mediterranean is written by Ed Kinney. (Part 5 of 6 on Spain)
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 347th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.
From Paris, FRANCE, Oct. 16, ’04. . .
by Henry Linden, Torrance, CA
In March ’04 I purchased a new Motorola V-400 “World Class” phone and opened a new Cingular line to use it. (My existing Cingular phone would not work with the new GSM services.) The new phone was purchased for use on a trip to Sweden planned for early April.
Inspired by the article on renting “a home away from home” (Aug. ’04, pg. 38), I am sending some comments concerning renting gîtes in France.
For a recent trip to France and Italy, arranged on short notice, I decided to book all hotels ahead of time. I had considerable benefit from using a site called Venere.com.
A couple mailed to ITN a copy of their letter to Grand Circle Travel, as follows.
We visited Barcelona for four nights in September ’04. We stayed at a delightful, newly renovated apartment near the end of Las Ramblas. We shared with two other guest rooms a self-service breakfast, a well-stocked kitchen, a large sunny dining room and two bathrooms.