Plug

I’ve nattered on enough about Eastern Europe that I ought to put in a good word for the tour operator who honchoed us through so much of this. That would be:

H.A.T. Tours Ltd.

http://www.europeanoperatours.com/

Ignore “Ltd.,” it’s really a one-woman operation—that’s her on the web page. She’s an extraordinary person, a prodigy of energy and purpose who seems to do this sort of thing as if it were fun. She’s a wonderful traveling companion, and she has a remarkable life story of her own which I leave for her to tell.

Yes, I know what you are thinking about package tours; I have thought so myself, but believe me, at my age and in my general state of decay, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, so sweet as to leave your bags outside the door in the morning, and to see them reappear, as if by magic, in some distant city that night. Anyway, Grethe is in a class by herself. Give her a call and tell her Buce sent you.