I read Bruce Berger’s account of his misfortune with the mandatory road-tax stickers that tripped him up in Switzerland and, in a costly manner, in Slovenia (Sept. ’15, pg. 13).

Allow me to point out that a number of countries in Europe, among them Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland (and, soon, Germany), each have independently instituted prepaid road-tax stickers, commonly called vignettes, which are mandatory for travel on fast...

Commanding a spectacular view of Switzerland’s Wetterhorn, the Rosenlaui Glacier and the Gadmen Valley, Hotel Gletscherblick (Urseni, 6085 Hasliberg, Goldern, Switzerland; phone +41 [0] 33 972 40 40, www.gletscherblick.ch) is situated on a bend in the road on the Hasliberg plateau above Meiringen.

My husband, Dick, and I, along with our son Jim and his family, spent a week there in July 2015. For Dick and me, it was our ninth visit to this special place, which I had discovered around...

In the Feature Article “One Trip, Two Experiences — a Group Tour of Ethiopia vs. a Private, Customized Journey” (July ’15, pg. 6), the writer reported on two trips he and his wife took in Ethiopia.

The first was a group photography tour arranged by National Geographic Expeditions (Washington, DC; 888/966-8687, www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com), and the second was a private, custom tour arranged for the couple by another operator. After a glowing account of the National Geographic...