Jane MacDougall: The Bookless Club tackles Europe with the help of Arthur Frommer

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We all went to Europe with the same person. That person was Arthur Frommer.

Frommer himself was a fascinating individual. He graduated from Yale Law with honours, eventually forsaking the law to focus on his travel guides. He also wrote authoritatively on other topics and would go on to become a consumer advocate, as well as hotelier. To the best of my knowledge, he’s still alive and in his 94th year.

My ‘grand tour’ was a budget vacation, complete with Eurail passes, youth hostels, and sleeping rough sometimes. We would walk for blocks looking for the cheapest meals and lowest priced accommodations. On more than one occasion, we would discover that we were sleeping in brothels. Here’s my travel tip for you: I don’t recommend overnighting in brothels — there’s a surprising amount of traffic and it doesn’t let up.

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