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Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 482nd issue of ITN, your monthly foreign travel magazine. • We’re getting some informative emails and letters in response to our request ‘Tell us about a time when you submitted a claim — medical or nonmedical — to a travel insurance company and expected reimbursement but had your claim denied.’ We’re still accepting mail on that, as explained in the box on page 28. Since ITN is all about travelers getting advice and recommendations from other travelers, here are a couple of information requests from two of our subscribers. • Diane Robbins of Penfield,...

Satillieu, Ardèche, France (May 2002) — I felt heavenly as I ate the buttery croissant slathered with butter and strawberry jam. My late wife, Flory, and I were enjoying our petit dejeuner (breakfast) in the lovely, 2-star Hôtel Restaurant Chaléat-Sapet, on Place de la Faurie in Satillieu, France.

After the croissant had melted in my mouth, I tackled the sections of baguette, making sure to decorate them with more butter and jam. Where else would I get a breakfast with the crispiest and freshest bread but in France?

French bread

The French love their bread. A...

One hundred sixty miles north of Cape Town, South Africa, lies Bushmans Kloof, one of the most unique art galleries I’ve ever visited. It’s extraordinary both for its immense size and for the antiquity of its paintings. 

Paintings that are 2,000 to 10,000 years old are scattered among more than 130 caves and rock overhangs in the Cederberg Wilderness area of western South Africa. These rock paintings have been called one of the largest open-air art galleries in the world.

The San people

Although there is a difference of opinion among archaeologists...