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What Can Today’s Travelers Learn From Frommer’s $5 A Day?

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A Guidebook Digression

Book Cover: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a DayDestination: Europe

Book: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide, (NEW April 2012) by Doug Mack

Everybody has to have a gimmick.  Doug Mack‘s gimmick is to flout the hot trends of SE Asia, Eastern Europe and adventure travel and get back to basics. Using a 50-year-old guidebook, he tours plain old Europe.  In writing Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide  (a silly and misleading title that does not do justice to the book), Mack had no expectation of spending only $5 a day–even allowing for inflation that had pushed the 1963 $5 to about $34.50 in 2011. Continue reading What Can Today’s Travelers Learn From Frommer’s $5 A Day? →

Travel Photo Thursday Venice Doors and Windows

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Window View, Venice
Window View, Venice

In the city of Venice, where so much is hidden behind doors and glimpses at life inside a window seem a stolen pleasure, I caught this woman enjoying her view of  the neighborhood Piazza.

Other photos simply capture the peeling plaster, streaked paint and rusting metal caused by centuries of rising and falling water. Doorways in Venice can be Moorish, modern, Baroque, Renaissance, Victorian or any style man has dreamed up–but somehow they form a coherent whole that is unmistakably Venice.  I end with perhaps the most famous doorway in Venice. Continue reading Travel Photo Thursday Venice Doors and Windows →

The Light of Venice

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Guarding a Venice Flower Shop
Guarding a Venice Flower Shop

Destination: Venice

Movie: Summertime (1955), Director David Lean

Kate Hepburn chewed the scenery. Rossano Brazzi looked soulful. The Kid stole the show. Venice is the star. Continue reading The Light of Venice →