While traveling in Spain with my husband and son in May 2014, we received a speeding ticket, but we didn’t even know we had been cited until at least two weeks later when the rental car company forwarded the ticket to us by email (charging us over €30 for this “service”). The ticket, a fine of €300 (near $403), had been given electronically.

We received the ticket on May 28 while on the highway heading from San Sebastián, Spain, to Biarritz, France, shortly before the border crossing...

Why apply for the TSA Pre√TM (Pre-check) program, alone (May ’14, pg. 65)? For $15 more, you can also skip those long passport lines on reentry to the US.

The Global Entry program offers quick passport clearance with the help of automated kiosks. It includes TSA Pre√TM (allowing approved travelers expedited security screening for selected departures in US airports) plus eligibility for other expedited-entry programs: NEXUS (quicker entry on Canadian/American border crossings), SENTRI...

CORRECTION — Above the subscriber’s letter about a Trans-Siberian Railway trip and an excursion to Lake Baikal (Aug. ’14, pg. 73) in Russia, the photo described as having been taken in the “Cossacks Village” actually shows the Taltsy Museum of Wooden Architecture.

The open-air museum features authentic 17th- to 19th-century buildings transported there from other parts of Siberia. 

I’ve visited it twice, on July 13, 2011, and July 15, 2013, and, from one of our journals, I know...