travel insurance articles

London on foot
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
I enjoyed Patrick Erricker’s tips on making touring in London more affordable (Dec. ’08, pg. 11). I’m into my sixth year living in Greater London (near the Kew Gardens tube station), and I wanted to share my five tips on enjoying London on foot.

Luggage cart cost
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
In October ’08 we found airports in Italy now requiring a one- or 2-euro piece to secure a cart to transport your luggage. When you return the cart, you get your money back.

Creative solution to language predicament
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
What would I have done differently? (See Oct. ’08, pg. 2.)

An Arctic ice adventure
Features, March 2009 issue.

Assumed cabin was booked
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
In January ’08 I reserved a cruise to Norway for May 31-June 11, 2008, with Taitbout Voyages. I sent them a check for €1,180 (about $1,636) for the basic price and added €346 ($480) for a single cabin.

Discovered Tallinn
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
My wife, Amber, and I decided to add a quick, one-night stay in Tallinn, Estonia, to our 2-week Nordic capitals tour in July ’07 simply because it was easy to get to and because there was a chapter on the city in our “Rick Steves’ Scandinavia” guidebook.

Transnistria ‘toll’
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
I read with interest the reader’s account of being required to pay money to agents on a train traveling from Chisinau, Moldova, to Kiev, Ukraine (Dec. ’08, pg. 11).

Bucharest taxi snag
Travelers' Intercom, March 2009 issue.
Prior to our trip to Romania in April ’07, we had read many bad things about the taxi drivers in Bucharest, so we had the hotel send a taxi to the airport for us since we would be arriving at 12:30 a.m. on British Air.

Searching for the right place to sleep in France
Columns, March 2009 issue.
by Philip Wagenaar, third of four parts

Boarding Pass
Columns, February 2009 issue.
Dear Globetrotter: