Funniest thing

August 2011 issue

Taken for a ride in Cairo

Tell ITN about the funniest thing that ever happened to you while traveling in a foreign country. (ITN prints no info on destinations in the United States.) There are no restrictions on length. The ITN staff will choose each month’s winner, who will receive a free one-year subscription to ITN. Entries not chosen cannot be acknowledged.

This month’s winner is WILLIE KATE FRIAR of Lafayette, CO:

It was sometime in the ’80s that I was in Cairo visiting the pyramids with my two small sons, eight and ten years old. They wanted a ride on the camels, so I told the camel driver...

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September 2011 issue

Scottish commitment

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This month’s winner is JAMES E. McGEE of Sun City, CA:

Following a visit to my ancestral Hebridean island of Islay in Scotland in June 2010, at the Glasgow airport I went to a currency-exchange facility to change pounds back into...

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October 2011 issue

Double your pleasure.

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This month’s winner is Mr. CLARE MOELK of Charlottetown, PD, Canada:

While in Copenhagen on our June-July 2011 trip to Northern Europe, my wife and I stopped in at a small café for a late snack. We took some time selecting a large...

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November 2011 issue

Catching a ride

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This month’s winner is GLENN SCHMIDT of Sun Prairie, WI:

 

It’s a beautiful afternoon in Sorrento, Italy, in November ’09 as we board the last ferry of the day to Naples.

“Mr. Glenn, Mr. Glenn,”...

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December 2011 issue

Nothing to sniff at

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This month’s winner is MILT SWOPE of Rescue, CA:

 

For an early-morning flight out of Amsterdam in October ’10, I arrived at my gate in Schiphol Airport, took a seat nearby and soon was in a deep sleep.

I was...

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January 2009 issue

Funniest Thing for January

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This month’s winner is BRUCE PALMER of Pullman, Washington:

During my last evening in Athens several years ago, I was walking around the Acropolis and noticed a fairly large number of people drifting into the ancient...

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February 2009 issue

Funniest Thing

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This month’s winner is STAN C. KIMER of Raleigh, NC:

About 20 other travelers and I went on a 16-day “Conservation and Culture” tour of China with the US National Wildlife Federation in April ’08. We did all the normal...

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March 2009 issue

Funniest Thing for March

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This month’s winner is BOB PHILLIPS of Tillamook, OR:

We arrived in Bhutan a few days before the recent US presidential election. Our guide was very interested in the election and had watched the debates. There was a word...

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