I was saddened to read in the “News Watch” section of the January ’06 issue about the shooting of the tourist on Nov. 8, 2005, in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. I had completely missed any mention of it in my local newspaper, The Washington Post, so I looked it up online.

It seems that the tourist, a Brit, was farther north than tourists usually go in the park. Nonetheless, it is frightening that, despite Uganda’s best efforts, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is still...

Having returned from London with my friend Robin’s elderly parents (80 and 88), I wanted to recommend a driver/guide who perfectly met our needs: showing these first-time visitors as much of London as possible from the comfort of a vehicle.

Claire Ross, who was referred to us by London Walks (www.walks.com), was the perfect guide — gracious and accommodating and an excellent driver, to boot! She collected us from our Notting Hill hotel in the morning, drove us to all of the...

In the letter titled “Ensuring Credit Card Usage Overseas” (May ’06, pg. 12), the reader suggests advising the card issuers twice before taking a trip so they don’t make your card unusable by implementing a security watch while you are gone.

My warning is do not be surprised if they freeze your card anyway, especially if you have given them a detailed itinerary. In my case, their excuse was I wasn’t in the country I was supposed to be on that date, so the card must have been stolen....