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Arrow Rock is a funky little town. The folks are friendly and often have open-house holiday celebrations and hot apple cider in church.

Hermann is the home of the state's largest winery, Stone Hill, which has an excellent restaurant in a large stone building with a big fireplace. Reservations are recommended for dinner.

Also, in Lake of the Ozarks, there is a huge outlet mall and two nice resorts.

Iris M. Elfenbein, Washington

The Galapagos by Land

MY WIFE IS exquisitely motion-sensitive and can get seasick in a bathtub, so I appreciate someone wanting to make the Galapagos experience a land-based one [Travel Q&A, Nov. 26]. The problem is that the Galapagos Islands are exactly that: islands. Also, only three have tourist accommodations; the rest is pure, undeveloped national park. So even if you're staying on one of the islands, getting around by airplane limits where you go, as most of the islands have no landing facilities. More often you would have to travel by boat, in some cases for a few hours.

In addition, the Hotel Silberstein, mentioned in your response, is quite a way inland and requires transportation to get to town and the docks, or to go the other way to get to see the tortoises.

The bottom line is that the only way to get the Galapagos experience is to stay on a ship and sail from island to island, using Zodiacs to get from ship to shore.

By the way, by using an anti-motion-sickness patch, my wife was never sick and had a wonderful trip.

Howard Kaplan, Chevy Chase

Jerusalem, Cont'd

FOLLOWING UP on the Message Center letters about your article on Jerusalem's German Colony, I'd like to add a bit more history.

The original article mentioned that the colony was started in the 1800s by German Christians. Almost a hundred years later, throughout the 1930s, a number of Jewish people who needed to leave Germany settled in the area.

They were the fortunate ones, who realized very early that Germany was no longer safe for them, and many were professionals who were able to use their skills to begin new lives.