My husband and I learned about Youssef, an intelligent and resourceful guide, from another reader’s letter, “Guide in Marrakech” (Feb. ’17, pg. 28), but I wanted to write a letter of my own as he was that good.

I highly recommend Youssef Kharroubi (y.kharroubi@yahoo.com), who we hired in Marrakech, Morocco, Feb. 20-25, 2017.

He was very open with us about the wonderful aspects of the Moroccan people, their diversity, richness and generosity, while...

The May 2017 issue contained an article on self-driving in Bulgaria (page 6). As I knew that a lot of roads there have only Cyrillic road signs, I emailed the private Bulgarian guide Patrick Peneff (www.guide-bg.com), who advertises in ITN, and asked about driving in that country.(On several occasions, my late wife, Flory, and I had engaged Patrick as a guide, even paying him a deposit, but then had to cancel for medical reasons.)Patrick replied, “In Bulgaria, once you leave the main...

I have a cautionary tale for those folks who stow their carry-ons in the first overhead space they come to when boarding a plane, even if it is far forward of where they’re seated.On a flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on March 2, 2017, my husband, Bill, did just that. When it was time to deplane and we got to the spot where he’d stowed his bag, it wasn’t there. In its place was another one, not his. We figured someone had grabbed the wrong one by...