Article Archive for 23 September 2009
A couple of months ago, I mentioned that castles and historic houses in many parts of the UK were getting high visitor numbers because people were staying at home rather than holidaying abroad.
In Germany it is the same. according to Der Spiegel. Visitor numbers are up there as well as Germans also holidayed at home in greater numbers this year.
Not so long ago, when you arrived in Venice you went through a lot of cash quite quickly buying one day passes for the vaporettos, the museums and so on. And you often couldn’t use credit cards. As a family of four, buying three day passes for each of us for public transport meant carrying quite a bit of cash. Being more use to paying for nearly everything on credit cards, the first time I went there I was running short of money quite rapidly.
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