by Judith Anshin, Contributing Editor

Bora Özkök of Cultural Folk Tours has such passion and enthusiasm for the land of his birth, it’s downright contagious. I certainly was infected after spending 29 days traveling 5,500 miles with him from mid-April to mid-May 2006. In the early ’70s I spent time in Istanbul and Ephesus, but this trip, a clockwise circle tour beginning in Istanbul, exposed me to the Asian part of Turkey. By its end I felt I had really come to know, experience and...

by Carol H. Probst, Bethel Park, PA

“Und ver did you hear about Regensburg? Ve vish to keep that city to ourselves!” This comment, from a German woman in Heidelberg after she learned we had visited Regensburg, was cause for reflection. In June ’06 my husband and I, as part of our 3-country European trip, spent an entire weekend in Regensburg. Suddenly, we understood why the only other language we had heard there was German.

The city seems to be a popular destination for...

by Noel Canfield including text and photos from Roger Canfield, Contributing Editors

Visiting Israel was a childhood dream of mine, one inspired by films such as “Exodus” and “Ben Hur” and my reading the Bible and James Michener’s “The Source.” So I was thrilled to be invited aboard El Al’s inaugural nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv/Yafo (Jaffa) for a tour July 23-30, 2006.

A week before our departure, Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel from Lebanon...