I get just as much of a thrill planning a trip as going on the trip. The local library was a great place for travel books, videos & DVDs and if something wasn't in they would order it for me. Rick Steves & Lonely Planet were my favorites, lots of information. TipAdvisor is a website that I use all the time. In the forum section there are questions & answers. This site covers everything you would want to know about your destination. I was reading about scams in Paris & sure enough the 2nd day there I saw a young girl do the gold ring scam on 2 tourists. Two days later a young fellow tried it on Chris & I. We both burst out laughing & he took off running.
As for the blog I got the idea from a fellow hospice volunteer Shirley T. She had started a blog in 2006 when she was doing a pligrimage walk to Santiago de Compostela in Spain This is a 800 km trail starting on the French border & ending in Spain. She did this alone. In 2007 she added to her blog when she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro & her next entry will be in 2009 when she climbs to Machu Picchu. I thought this was such a great way to keep in touch. So I announced to Chris that we were going to do a blog. I think she's done a great job. I sat on the couch with my wine & threw ideas at her while she madly typed. I wouldn't let her have any wine till she was finished. Thank you everyone for sending your comments & emails to us. Every morning we looked forward to reading them. It was great having company.
Travel Tip:
Rick Steves has 4 podcast audio tours for Paris. These we downloaded & used in Versailles, Louvre, d'Orsay & on a walking tour of historic Paris. There are many other podcasts on the internet.
2 comments:
what is the ring scam and can you give another scam example.
Hope you see this Larry. Sorry I haven't checked my site for some time. The euro is the currency of Europe. All members of the European Community came together some years ago and decided to use a common currency for many reasons. Hence the euro.
The ring scam involves an attractive young person who will suddenly bend over to apparently pick something up off the ground. Actually they have palmed a "look like gold" ring which is probably lead painted gold colour. They will offer it to you and ask if it is yours. When you say no they will then offer to sell it to you for 10 euros which sounds like such a deal because if it were genuine it would be worth over 100 euros. If you choose to buy you will have an expensive memento of a dime store ring.
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