Buy travelers checks in U.S. dollars ... rather than in European currency. If you don't use them abroad, you can use them when you get home or cash them in at your bank without having to reconvert. |
Despite the ease of ATMs, we still recommend bringing some of your funds in traveler's checks -- enough to get you through a few days in an emergency. They are quicker to replace than ATM cards if they are lost or stolen, and they're not prone to being demagnetized or gobbled up by a cranky machine, |
Eastern Europe has been really trendy. Prague is the best-preserved city in the region ... and the best beer in Europe lands on your table there for 50 cents. |
I could have said, 'This sucks,' [but] what would this have accomplished? ... I was aware of the 'Sophie's choice' that had to be made. I really was proud of my community for saving the auditorium. In America, we have to be proud of what little scraps of elegance we can save in this low-tax, low-service, Texas model of government. |
I'm just a travel writer trying to get more horsepower, more amplification. |
I'm like the general public. I didn't put it together [about the razing] until recently. A little bit, I was in denial. |
I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping. |
It's important to go with the flow. If you go to a restaurant in Spain at 7 p.m., that's bad news. The staff is eating then. |
It's the cheap alternative to the Italian Riviera. |
It's wasteful to have a train pass just ticking away. |
Smart consumers should know what all the options are. |
Travel is intensified living . . . and one of the last great sources of legal adventure. |
We're enjoying a great deal of success in attracting film crews to York and we're working closely with the city council to make York the most film-friendly city in the UK. |
What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them. |
You can't explain India to people. I can explain Ireland, Norway, the Alps, but I can't explain India. |