Since I would be attending a dermatology conference in Riga, Latvia, my wife, Yuki, and I decided it would be a good time to visit the three countries collectively known as the Baltics: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Vilnius

Arriving in Vilnius, Lithuania, we first stopped at the Mabre Residence Hotel (Maironio Str. 13; mabreresidencehotelvilnius.com). The building, dating from the 17th century, served as a monastery and military headquarters before being converted to a hotel...

My wife, Judy, and I have been fascinated with the imperial city of St. Petersburg, Russia, ever since getting a brief taste following a Russian river cruise several years ago. We found a transatlantic cruise leaving from St. Petersburg in fall 2015 and arriving in New York City and immediately thought, with this exciting mode of transportation home, it would be a perfect time to revisit the city. And so began our journey. Getting there We soon discovered that visiting Russia as an...

Two women friends, Jo and Bonnie, and I, all in our later 60s (approximately, wink, wink), took a wonderful trip to Morocco in March 2015. We chose to use the personalized services of Journey Beyond Travel (JBT) based on a recommendation by George Carter in the February 2014 issue of ITN (p. 30). JBT was extremely responsive to Bonnie’s emails and always answered our questions in a direct manner. Though we first thought about using an American-based company in case of any political concerns...