wrenwood, please tell me about your successes in waiting until Summer to book your Autumn travel. I'm debating whether to wait or book now for late Sept. early October.

Hi Julie ~ I answered in another thread so as not to "hijack" this thread

See "To wait or not to wait to book for Autumn Travel" posted in Europe

Good luck!
Wrenwood

Holly, I think the member field in the advanced search will do a search targetted for that member. So, for instance, if I wanted to search for all threads that <em>you</em> participated in that also mentioned Paris, I could go to: http://www.fodors.com/search/results...lly_uncasdewar

I'm not sure if this is by design or if it's an accident, but you can also search for any threads that both Holly_uncasdewar <em>and</em> JulieVikmanis participated in: http://www.fodors.com/search/results...+JulieVikmanis

No and yes. Not entirely because of the changes here, but more because of the economy. The posters who took many, many trips rarely post in thee lounge and you can see that the europe board is slow because the money we had to travel,
some have lost in the stock market, or they lost their jobs in the down-sizing, their homes in danger, with no cash coming in. Everyone I know has been very careful in their spending but also very down-hearted and those would not feel like posting.

Yes, count me in, or out, depending on how you look at it.

This is my first revisit in about 2 weeks; used to be daily. It's not due to the economy, stock market, or anything other than a new format that displeases me.

I don't think traffic is down much - or at all. So far today there have been more than 130 threads started or topped on the Europe forum alone - and many, MANY more posts on those threads. Weekends are always slower. On the old forum - at this time on a Saturday I'd never have to go back 3 pages to see all of today's activity.

Sure - individuals might think it's slower if they personally aren't happy w/ the format or aren't posting as much. But for instance, there have been a lot more UK tagged threads lately than on the old format -- so <i>someone</i> must be happy and is using the site more.

I very much like the new format and the new features. I am with TuckH, I go to the forum of choice and view all the days activity. So easy, so quick!

Sweetiedarling, I didn't mean you!!

BTW, did I ever tell you about the time I accosted a gay man in a restaurant in Paris, because I was convinced he was you?

Have we lost Vincenzo? Haven't seen a post from him recently ...

Steve