Tried-and-true tips for when you're traveling abroad.
P.S. Another eye-opener Catherine tells is about the real meaning of the expression "thumbs up," a misconception that is repeated in nearly every guidebook going…and one you'll find in historic paintings and Hollywood movies. She'll share that story, and many more just as fascinating, in The Owl. I'm already signed up: click here.
Read OnShe left school at 15 to live in a hippy squat in London. She tended bar in a strip joint…inspected bolts at a factory…waitressed in a Chinese restaurant…and clerked at a print shop where she typed invoices and lied to customers about why their orders weren't ready. Today she is International Living's Roving Euro Editor, and regularly sends us notes from even further afield.
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I have, frequently. I'll explain more in a moment, but first a quick introduction. My name is Georgina Adams, and I'm the editor of IL's new e-letter, The Untourist.
Read OnWas he one of the greatest explorers of the ancient world--an archaeologist who discovered Homer's Troy and showed that the Iliad and Odyssey are history books as well as poems; the man who first revealed that high civilizations had flourished in the eastern Mediterranean a thousand years before Pericles' Athens? Or was he a fraud--a man who salted his archaeological finds with treasures from elsewhere to make them more impressive; who made up stories about himself as well as his discoveries; and who became an American citizen by deceit?
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