Monthly Archives: October 2024

Beautiful Cities Overcrowding with Tourists

You are so excited to finally visit (fill in the blank) for that European luxury vacation. Insert: Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Venice, Florence, Prague… You arrive in, let’s say, Venice, with grand expectations for viewing ancient architecture, tasting time-honored traditional cuisine, and meeting locals, deciphering their native language – only to discover buses, boatloads of waddling cruise-shippers, throngs of foreign tourists …