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RE: http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/07-08/the-italian-job...me-italy-europe.html

In all aspects of travel-Different Strokes for different folks. It is my opinion that hotels and restaurants are tools of travel, not destinations. Thank goodness my Beautiful Sweetie was in agreement.

We are not campers, but to travel in an RV we saw three or four times as many items of interest while we traveled, as do people who spend hours each day looking for, and eating in restaurants, and packing and unpacking a suitcase in a hotel.

Our 968 nights in Europe include 23 nights in hotels. Our 6 months in France (9 trips) includes not one hotel room, and only a couple of meals in what most travelers call a restaurant.

Remember, a clerk in a grocery or bakery are thrilled to meet an American, a bellhop and a waiter are thrilled to get a tip.

We are there to learn about their home and way of life, but while food and drink are important to some, it is of no interest to us. Our small RV was home for months at a time. We spent some nights with a dozen of Emmy’s German Cousins.

If you go to http://www.travel-tidbits.com/ you will find a couple thousand stories and photos of Europe, including 128 of Italy.

Comments Please.

I am not quite sure what your post has to do with the article to which you are referring.

And, as for that article, I totally missed the point...a little too jumbled for my taste. Maybe it was meant to feel as whirlwindy as their trip; to me it just was difficult to follow.