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How about the next logical step-eliminate tips altogether? Pay your guides and drivers an equitable salary and be done with it. Rick Steves does that and he has excellent people working for him with … (View Post)

Sounds like a great trip! Thanks for a terrific review. We’ve been to Paris a dozen times and we are returning next year. It never gets old. We are booked for the Paris, Bordeaux, Dordogne tour. (View Post)

My hanging toiletry bag is a discontinued Eagle Creek that is twenty years old. I’ve looked for a replacement and nothing comes close. When it finally dies I’ll have a funeral, I swear. As for this T… (View Post)

The final docs from Tauck state the amount in dollars or the equivalent in local currency. Our Italy guide was fine with dollars as she lives in Venice but is American and travels to the US often. Sh… (View Post)

I found The Portuguese: A Modern History by Barry Hatton to be a good read. (View Post)