“Why have you brought so much money?” my
elder daughter, Nicole, asked me in Bad Godesberg.
“You needn’t have done so.” chipped in
her husband, Emil.
I had only brought a few thousand Euros
which could barely buy a conducted 6-day tour of any European country and I was
supposed to spend four months there. It would turn out later that I hardly need
to spend any money at all. Emil and Nicole would pay for everything – food,
hotel, car rental, tickets for trains, coaches and planes, and taxi fares,
entrance tickets to museums, castles, palaces and cable cars.
Nicole and Emil had invited us to their
home for two months in Bad Godesberg near Bonn in Germany and then we would be taken
round to the other cities in Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria,
Romania and England for another two months.
Nicole
and Emil turned out to be fantastic hosts. No expenses spared to make our trip
enjoyable – haute cuisine, first-class train travel, cities far and wide apart where
no tourists would normally be able to go to. It turned out to be a most
interesting and extensive tour – an once-in-a-lifetime experience.
ltbs
Only
that travelling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to
enjoy it better.
Henry
David Thoreau
