chepar

crefloors - got to echo your Hugh choices - especially Mr. Jackman. He is just too good looking for my health.

lucky03

Gore Vidal....knowlegeable, witty, sarcastic, and probably full of interesting gossip.

diddl_maus

Bill Bryson or Peter Mayle

flygirl

in a pinch, would any of these do?

www.toplookalikes.co.uk/

StCirq - I like PJ O' too. even met him once!

crefloors

LAwoman...LOL!!!! heh, heh...my freudian slip is showing...SHAME on me!!!!

USNR

I would rent a four-door, four-seat sedan and travel with...cigalechanta, St. Cirq, and our Mr. Haines of London.

I would try to find a place for mkingdom2 in the trunk (boot).

I have a wicked sense of humor.

gusto

I will go with Laura Bush....the twins could come along too.

cigalechanta

I'd like to travel with Colette and Zola (if they were alive) We'd take you along USNR!

hansikday

I'd take john Kerry. we could share hair products and spend his wife's money. Besides, he meeds a break from being a lapdog for an AA-looking tramp.

Judyrem

crefllors, that is a ditto on Hugh Jackman and Huge(LOL) Grant. Tony Blair always...I would vote for him for President;-). Leonardo Da Vinci, Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, Eleanor of Aquitaine...and that is just a few of my faves.

crefloors

I don't want to travel with anyone pre-deoderant..LOL There was a REASON perfume was invented!!!!

awbaker

Patsy & Eddy (& several bottles of champagne) on a shopping extravaganza to any city in Europe.

ilovetulips

Someone who is dead that I would travel with would be Claude Monet. I would to tour with him and see the landscapes that inspired him. A living person- Hmmm... maybe Hugh Grant because he is so damn cute and has a great sense of humor.

tuscanlifeedit

awbaker: I have traveled with Pats and Eddy and it was exhausting and expensive.

And think of the disasters: their trips to Morocco, New York, France, skiing; oh my, sweetie, they're simply awful travel companions. ;-)

platzman

I'd love to go to Budapest with Zsa Zsa or Eva Gabor(in their younger days).
On second thought, make that Zsa Zsa AND Eva.

uhoh_busted

I think it would be fun to go just about anyplace with Billy Crystal.

awbaker

tuscanlife -- dahling, I envy you! Anyway, it couldn't be more exhaustive (or more different!) than traveling with 2 toddlers. And sweetie, the entertainment value alone is worth the expense!!

Infotrack

Pollyanna: you make a political statement, then tell others to not respond to it, saying, don't make this political????? That sounds so familiar......

--Marv

travelinwifey

Jim Morrison - now he knew how to party, a little too good perhaps

Jude Law for eye candy

Audrey Hepburn as a companion as she was the essence of style and grace

Chris Rock or John Stewart for laughs

tedgale

Not Evelyn Waugh,, as one early poster suggested.

I have a first edition of his "Labels"; just read it! Even as a young traveller, he was a snob and a bigot -- sins that no conversational virtuosity can overcome.

I support the Matt Damon option because people would vie to carry our luggage and he's so rich he would pay for everything.

For profundity, Henry James; "A little tour of France", "English hours", "Italian Hours" (Have I the last book's name right?)

For joie de vivre, MFK Fisher. Ruskin, for Venice.....

And I WOULD like to have the Gabors with me for Hungary -- or maybe the polished, cosmopolitan "English Patient", Count Almasy (not a proper Count, BTW -- see the recent bio)