Clearly this is a stealth game of "Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American":
[quote]If you're still working (not retired), don't run yourself ragged trying to "clear your desk" before your trip.
[quote]My advice to anyone who travels anywhere is use Wise or Revolut
Pre-paid cards in the currency of the country you are visiting? What dark magic is this? Something wrong with good old American Express Traveller's Cheques? Everyone uses them! So convenient and safe!
[quote] Why not take a half day trip to Amsterdam as well? Travel by Eurostar to Paris from London in the morning, spend the morning in Paris, then take the train to Amsterdam for the afternoon and return to London by Eurostar in the evening.
[quote] take the Eurostar from London to Paris and then return by Eurostar from Amsterdam to London. It's all doable!
And why not? Do Paris in the morning and Amersterdam in the afternoon. The train ride through the Netherlands is gorgeous countryside, and it's a small city, you can see everything worth seeing in about 35-minutes.
[quote]Bring water (they never come by often enough unless you're in bus./first class)
And remember to carry a giant plastic bottle of water because the plastic water bottles in England are wee, tiny things. Maybe find a 5-liter bottle that collapses into something very compact. Extra points for a completely unnecessary U.S. flag decal.
[quote]My trip to London was in May. Again, between inflation, London being London and the exchange rate, it was stratospheric. I paid $550 a night for this place [Hazlitt's] in Soho, which is lovely, but not the Savoy.
The Savoy is aware, evidently. Their lowest rate off-season is twice that per night.
[quote]Take a train out to Henley on Thames and take a hike from Hambleden to Turville. You can see some cute villages and the windmill from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Yes, you remember the film, right? From 55 fucking years ago.