the moores

If you will have extra days in Porto, consider going to Aveiro. It's a charming town with canals, fun architecture, etc and a couple of interesting museums, including one of art nouveau. I thiin… (View Post)

It's quite easy to buy metro tickets there. I'm not sure if Tauck still uses the Mandarin Oriental but it had an ideal metro stop because it was so easy to use. After a lot of walking the f… (View Post)

I second Basel. It's a lovely city. If you stay four days you might even want to take a short train ride to Colmar or Strasbourg. (View Post)

I winced at reading of your experience, Henrypoon. We never once saw spaghetti on our trip. Instead, Tauck provided us with a nice variety of Japanese foods and French food - all of it good, none of … (View Post)

Back to your question, Mowie. Here is what we did when we went to Turkey. We did an eight day tour of Istanbul with Road Scholar. We stayed in a four or five star hotel (not always the case with Road… (View Post)