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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer
The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…
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I also think you're right about the need for travel guide apps, but if that force a rethink of how travel guides are written.
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People are either walking billboards for a store, a brand, a place or a sports team. Why? Or they have simply given up caring because they've gotten so fat.
I should say that I have just spent the weekend with a French friend. I have never seen any man with so many shoes.
As someone who spends a lot of time in the UK, asking British rugby fans to wear shirts is a kindness to others. It spares us bad and/or rude tattoos and belly buttons that almost drag on the ground.
As for the Burqa, I am in complete agreement. This is a case of both respect for women and security. Some women may wish to wear the burqa, but how many others are forced to do so? We hear stories about life in Islamic countries where fashion/religious police will stop and beat women whose burqas aren't longer enough.
Then it comes to travel. I can't get on a plane without showing a picture ID, so why should they have special treatment? I see rabbis and priests and ministers who have to show photo IDs. And when I vote I need to prove who I am before I can mark my X. Shouldn't they also have to do that to avoid the opportunity for multiple voting?
If people who come from a background that expects/demands the wearing of a burqa, well, they have the choice not to visit or live in a country that bans the wearing of it. There are places which still allow it. The choice is there, it just may not be what they want. But then, society makes demands on all of us that we may not want or agree with. Gay people can't marry in many parts of the US - isn't that a loss of freedom and basic rights?
Restaurants want us to wear shoes when dining. Is that a damper on freedom of expression or a matter of taste and hygiene?
Saturday evening we stopped (quite late) to solve a milkshake craving. There was an annoying child banging on a table, disturbing people. We drew this to the mother's attention. She barked back that her daughter was just being a normal six-year-old. We countered that a normal six-year-old was in bed before midnight. (It wasn't the kid's fault that she has a bad parent.)
Face it, some people really need a lot of direction in life.
How long before we see gendarmes fining hapless tourists for not wearing cufflinks on alternate Thursdays?
Is dress a valid form of self-expression, comparable to freedom of speech? Especially in a religious context? And should government have any role in dictating how we dress?
Lucky Arthur Frommer, who once upon a time wrote Europe on $5 a Day, and that concept was fresh and original. But today, in our market, what do you think would constitute originality? Is it even possible to achieve? And if true originality is not possible, how can we make our writing stand out from the tens of thousands of travel bloggers and journalists out there?
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