A NEW TRAVEL GUIDE
 

Though I'm not sure you'd want to use it. Written in the mid 19th century by L.Mortimer..only thing wrong about it she had never left her village in Shropshire.

gave me a good laugh this morning!

http://travel.independent.co.uk/news...cle3008099.ece

Thanks for sharing, J.

Good lord, don't you think these pointers should be in the next editions of the various Fodor's guides?

LOL :)

Interesting comments about New Orleans:

There is no place in the whole world where so many ships are all collected in one spot as in the harbour of New Orleans. But the river is the bane of the city. The banks are so low that the damps from the water render the city unwholesome. Yellow fever frequently comes and carries away thousands. New Orleans is a dangerous place to live in, both for the body and the soul.

Sandi, I thought the same thing. Nor much different today than in the 1800's!

I loved the France description where children were treated as "People' And the US description of how the children were "unhealthy"

The children are brought up in a very unwholesome manner. At the dinner table of the boarding-house they see all kinds of dainties, and they are allowed to eat hot cakes and rich preserves at breakfast, and ices and oysters at supper, when they ought to be satised with their basin of porridge, or their milk and water and bread and butter. The consequence is that many children die, and others are pale and sickly.

The whole book is a riot and I am going to try to fimd it when we are in London!

She certainly was, um, opinionated... :-D

Lee Ann