This is in response to Audrey Curtis, who wanted readers to submit articles on traveling alone (May ’05, pg. 122).

I’m a 66-year-old widow, but because my husband and I had different interests (he trekked in Nepal, I dug in Pompeii), while he was still alive we both frequently traveled sepatrately. I was lucky not to be forced, cold turkey, into solo traveling when he died.

For me, it’s more fun to travel with a group. I don’t want to spend every minute of every day with other...

Well, we finally did it, and I must say that there is not much of Egypt that we did not see! My husband and I, our son and daughter-in-law and our daughter and grandson started a 14-day independent tour of Egypt on June 24, ’04.

Our flights on Iberia Airlines were long, with very long airport layovers. In Madrid we had 10 hours, so we took the metro to the city and visited the Prado Museum. This was very easy to do, as our luggage had been forwarded to Cairo out of New York’s JFK and...

Many visitors who in their home country drive on the right-hand side of the road can find driving on the left in Britain a daunting task, but with a little insider information, and by following a few golden rules, they usually get by unscathed.

It’s worth mentioning that, surprisingly, more people in the world drive on the left than on the right. We are often asked in fun, “Why don’t you change over to make life easier,” but the reply is always, “Why don’t you change over to conform...