It’s always nice to receive the kind of warm attention upon arrival that I did, as a solo traveler, at the Priestville Guest House (10 Priestfield Rd., Edinburgh, Scotland, EH16 5HJ, U.K.; phone 0131 667 2435). For my stay, April 1-10, 2013, proprietors Colin and his wife, Trina, greeted me in their beautiful lobby area.

As requested, I was given a double room with en suite facilities. It was not only spacious but extremely clean, serviced every day. My daily rate, with...

I read the subscriber’s letter “Did Not Find Expected Amenities on Easter Island” (June ’13, pg. 24) and can sympathize with the writer’s experience, as most of us who are world travelers (125 countries so far, for me) have been disappointed when our expectations failed to meet with reality. However, on a tour I took to Rapa Nui, “The Atacama Desert & Easter Island: Different Worlds,” operated by Road Scholar (Boston, MA; 800/454-5768), I had just the opposite experience. 

The 20-...

As a longtime philatelist, I choose many of my travel destinations based on my fascination with the postage stamps from those places. Postage-stamp-size Andorra finally bubbled up to the top of my priority list.

The trip to Andorra my wife, Carol, and I took in June ’13 was a delight worth sharing. Despite Andorra’s remoteness, getting there was easy. Novatel Andorra By Bus (Andorra la Vella, Andorra; phone +376 803 789, fax +376 867 884) operates buses between the...