VERIFY. VERIFY. VERIFY. As much research as I do before we ever leave home and the additional research I do via Internet access at our nightly digs, you’d think that would be enough. Wrong. We’ve learned to call the day before we plan to tour to verify our online and guidebook research. This is one [...]
Closures
April 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Touring
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Tourist Passes
February 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Touring
DO YOUR HOMEWORK. THEN DO SOME MORE. Are you suspicious that international travel is a thinly disguised master’s thesis research project? Bingo. Get over it. Research IS the game – if you expect to get your money’s worth from travel. Not doing research guarantees you’ll return almost as ignorant as when you left. A certain [...]
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Tour Guides
March 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Touring
PAY ATTENTION TO TOUR GUIDES’ ROTATION. . . . especially when information hasn’t exactly been forthcoming. My husband and I have met and known more Scots than your average American tourist. We’ve toured Scotland 20 weeks altogether. We’ve stayed in 17 (that I can remember) private homes and met many of the owners. While shopping [...]
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