Middle East articles

Pleased with global phone
Travelers' Intercom, March 2005 issue.
A discovery! I purchased a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) phone for a trip to Egypt/Jordan in November ’04. Although there was no need for lengthy conversations with my progeny, I did feel a need for a phone should a crisis of some kind occur.

Palm Express
, March 2005 issue.
You’ve seen it dozens of times in movies and on TV: a bird’s-eye view of a red sports car screeching through hairpin curves one after another, racing down a precipitous granite mountain with a thousand-foot plunge below into inaccessible ravines.

In search of Chinggis Khan
Columns, March 2005 issue.
By Julie Skurdenis, second of two parts (jump to part 1)

Toledo to Capileira with a camera over my shoulder
Columns, March 2005 issue.
(Part 6 of 6 on Spain)

Boarding Pass
Columns, February 2005 issue.
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 348th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.

Report Cards
Report Cards, February 2005 issue.
On GREECE, December ’04. . .

Burma: a land lost in time
Features, February 2005 issue.
by Rob Sangster, Nova Scotia

Minerva II in the Black Sea
Travelers' Intercom, February 2005 issue.
The Black Sea has always interested us, so in May ’04 my husband, John, and I flew from London to Istanbul to join the ship Minerva II for a cruise called “Grand Baroque to Grand Bazaar,” May 22-June 5.

Accommodations Worldwide
Accommodations Worldwide, February 2005 issue.
Europe Les Gains bed-and-breakfast (home of Diana and Kit Wordsworth, 61310 Survie, Exmes, Normandy, FRANCE; phone 0033 [0] 2 33 36 05 56, e-mail

The challenge — and rewards — of visiting southern Ethiopia
Features, February 2005 issue.
It is said that Ethiopia has an image problem, and indeed it has. Years of relentless media coverage of famine, war and rebellions have taken their toll. Unfortunately, this has made travelers pass on the opportunity to visit an area that is unique, not only to Africa but worldwide.