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QUESTION: |

days do you think we should -overcHarge tourists!
allot for Rome when we visit

How many

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from Barb

‘answers

the driver first - they like to

map, locate your hotel (if

been there five or six* times
and can only tell you that I
hardly know the place. For a
first visit, a week would only
scratch the surface. A few
things that you should try to
see: The Vatican - and the
Vatican museum (down the

street a couple of blocks). If

you want to be super smart,

you'll take an elevator to the |

top floor and walk down
instead of up! Do look for
the Egyptian section, and

. while you're there, look at

the mummified black cat.
He looks exactly like two of
my own black-cats! Isn't it
interesting that dogs can be
produced in all shapes and
Sizes but no-one has been
able to tamper with the
gorgeous symmetry of a cat!

Trevi fountain is a place I
don’t miss. 1 . get that
“Audrey. Hepburn” feeling
and keep looking over my
shoulder for Gregory Peck
on a scooter, Alas, all I’ve
found is a bunch of huffing
and puffing Americans -
given ten minutes to grab a
quick glance while their bus
waits. .

One of the nicest views of
the Coliseum is from a cab,
after nightfall. Dicker with

you’ve booked one). Cabs:
there have a charming habit
of taking you on a four mile
drive when your ultimate
destination is. easy walking
distance! Otherwise, use the
main railway station as a
landmark. Another good bet
is grabbing any bus outside
the station. Keep riding!
Eventually, it will come back -
to the station. . --- :

Buy some extra tickets at
the rear for your return
journey because: you'll feel
like an idiot if you don’t have
the proper ticket when an
inspector clamps down.

Last year, they were 200.
lira, but, a pocketful of
change is a smart thing to
carry. Coins are necessary to
operate the ticket machines.
Italy is very short of coins so
hoard them like a miser by
spending the paper money in
preference.

DEAR BARBARA: Can you
please recommend a good
restaurant in London in the
‘reasonably-priced range,
where we could take a family
group in return for their
hospitality. There would be
sbout 14 of us and I'd like to
take them all out for dinner -
from my wife’s grannie who

VOLCANOES IN B.C.? Yes and this one-Mt. Edziza Is in the provinc
Tahitan dialect, Edziza means ‘cinders’. It would appear the vleane to
years ago.

Woolworth's

the

Strand and. Regent
Palace Hotels. Problem here

his pass) what would be the

most mileage-or-distance we

__three babies and . an elderly .

by Barbara
McCreadie

is nearly 90 to three little
great-nieces from 4 to 7. I
can't hope to take them to
something like the “Big Ben

Tower” but I'd_ like
something that would fall
half-way between that and
Lunch
Counter.

ANSWER: I've got a terrible _

fear of recommending
restaurants to readers
because things change se

quickly. ['ve not been to

London, damn it!, for
‘fourteen months. That has to
be my longest “time away ”
since I. started travelling.

The only suggestion I can.

make is one of the Carvery

chain, two of which are in

"

remote, northwestern corner. In the local .
w inactive, last spewed out lava about 100

Grannie aren’t going to wipe
out their months’ profits!
The tab, last time I was

there, was five pounds to...

pay, and five poyinds to carry
back home under your skin.

Overeating is-something of a
hazard. Ill enter all reader’s
suggestions under the
heading of “Recommended
by-----” until fall.

QUESTION: Did you really
yaar it when you said that
our favorite European
‘country was Italy? How
could you? We visited there
. for three days: in April and
hated every minute of it.

ANSWER: There's nothing
like a three-day expert!
Having spent a. little longer
than three days, on lots of
trips, and in lots of places, I
repeat ‘Ttaly is great!”
Prego! .

DEAR BARBARA: First, a

personal question. Were you
on the Skyward cruise of
December 10 to 17, 1977? I
believe you were on our
mini-bus from . dock
airport on the return trip.

Now, my travel question.
If you had a travel pass from
Air Canada (our son. has
commenced working for the

company and he is giving us .

dried

fish and chips. They are
peas soaked in

December
when I stay home — for sure
—- and do my “Mrs. Santa”

routine. Haven't figured out
how to get the turkey on the
table and the shopping done
when I'm a few thousand
miles away. January — well,

_ look out!

Air Canada has two “far-
away” points. One is the

Caribbean and the other is .

Europe. Stop overs must. be
arranged here in Canada but
you may fly into one point in
Europe (such as London)
and fly out of ayxother.

Check this out, using ground -

transport at your own ex-
pense. .

DEAR BARBARA: I read
with some interest your
article on York, “Pubs, good
food and Cathedrals”.
(Barbara’s note: This letter is
from Ontario' — and this
column appeared somewhat

-jater than it did on the North

Shore!)
I agreed - wholeheartedly

until we came to the “soggy

peas”. It is obvious that you
have been grossly misin-
formed and I would like to
set the record straight if I
may.

The peas you mention are
very rarely sold in pubs.
They are usually served with

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Europe thissummer? » During the day, brouse . price for kids - but, perhaps . 7 : -a, cooked), ed, they are
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me od-until they-become————

“Mushy Peas”.

Follow my. instructions
and who knows? You and
Barry might even get to like
them!

ANSWER: I can’t do much
with Barry — after being
brought up in York, his taste
for peas — soggy, mushy or
whatever, ‘won't change.
Besides, his wife won’t cook
them — she’s Danish!

Another friend told me
that his family call them
“pussy peas” and even:eat
them with turkey dinner. No.
accounting for taste!

_ Now, since my family is
from Nova Scotia, want to
hear about codfish cakes,
herring or lobster? My idea
of a perfect breakfast is a
couple of Codfish cakes with
bacon. My kids think I’ve
slipped my cable! But, my

-husband,.. bless... his.-_heart!,

in and ask for’
Not bad since he °

will dig
seconds.

had a sheltered Victoria
upbringing!

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