Europe on $5 a Day - stories?

bookmama22
Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:41:31 +0000

I am enjoying this thread and there was so much more that I could add… but one of the memories is that sometimes when you ate dinner in a restaurant if there was a musician playing you were charged a tax for listening, you paid per roll for example for any rolls eaten from a basket on the table, paying to use the restroom facilities in museums, churches, etc… so I think we made many stops whenever we could at department stores that were I think free, we packed skirts because in those days you needed to wear a skirt to be admitted to tour the Vatican and so many other funny things.

I travelled to Spain for 3 plus weeks less than 10 years later with DH, post-Franco and what I remember most about that trip was the cost by comparison but also that in post-Franco Spain, there was a huge explosion of pornography as that had been so suppressed previously.