Tell us about the funniest thing that 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. ITN staff will choose each month’s winner, who will receive a free one-year subscription to ITN. Include your full mailing address. Entries not chosen cannot be acknowledged. 

This month's winner is JAMES STEFAN of Sarasota, FL:

Several years ago, I was visiting Mostar in Bosnia &...

On a small-group tour of Southern Africa in May ’13 that we booked with Africa 2000 Tours (Knysna, South Africa), a wonderful company and a frequent advertiser in ITN, I learned a few lessons about precautions to take while traveling.

• When I retrieved my checked bag at the Cape Town airport, one of the two main zipper pulls (plastic) was broken. I could not use my TSA lock to secure the two pulls together to lock my suitcase. Gill, our resourceful trip leader, provided me...

My husband, Ed, and I were in Brussels, Belgium, one May ’12 afternoon.

Walking through Place de l’Agora, we found the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, a glass-roofed arcade built in 1847 in the Italian Renaissance style. It is considered to be the oldest indoor shopping mall in Europe and certainly set the tone for all other similar arcades. This building is probably 300 feet in length, and its glass ceiling gives a solarium feel to the place.

About midway in the...