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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Hiring a Car and Driver

     This is  photo of us in Paris about two weeks ago. We hired a driver with an old Citron to drive us around for a morning. We had some jet lag and it was too warm to sit in the top of a Hop On Hop Off Bus (plus I have trouble climbing the stairs). We made a list of what we wanted to see. To save on a taxi, I had the driver drop us at our afternoon destination of the Louvre. Later in the week, I asked a cab driver to include a stop at Montmartre  on the way across town. Cost was hardly anything.
     We rented a car and driver in Brussels and it was super. I got to see the city. Plus, he was our personal guide at the stops. We did the same thing on Gibraltar. You cannot drive the rock by yourself and I was not going to climb it, so we hired a driver for half a day to tour the whole colony! 
     It sometimes seems like a good deal of money, but it saves nerves and lets you see the things you really want to see. In the end, it is not much more than driving around yourself and not knowing what you saw.
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