Robert Burns for the best place for haggis. <BR>Richard Burton for the best pub in Wales. <BR>Josephine Baker for anything about Paris. <BR>Picasso for a tour of the south of France and Catalonia. <BR>Manolete and Hemingway for advice on watching a bullfight. <BR>Brillat-Savarin for dining tips. <BR>Samuel Pepys for London sights that no one knows. <BR>Jack the Ripper for, well, take a guess. <BR>And, I, too, vote for Madeleine Kahn for her outlook (or insight) on virtually anything.... <BR> <BR>

My pick: Virginia Wolfe on rooms she has known.

To add to the list, how about Coco Chanel for shopping tips in Paris, and Robin Leach on how to get freebies to the world's most fabulous places. And Eugene Fodor the eponymous godfather of this forum, for takes on what it was like before jet travel.

<BR>Having just read a great article in the local paper about him, I too would have to say Ibn Battuta.

I could probably list hundreds, but more than anyone Albert Schweitzer is the one I'd like to hear from . <BR>