28 JANUARY 1955, page 25

The Tourist In History

Mr. William Lithgow arrives in Venice (Rare Adventures, 1610): Mine associate and I, were no sooner landed, and perceiving a great throng of people, and in the midst of them a......

Your First Problem, Then, Is The Gare Du Nord Porter,

repre- sentative of his kind all over ,Europe. You may not need a porter: but Mary undoubtedly will. Remember, then, that porters on the Continent are paid by the piece; and......