Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among them was Boston's Sara White, who has vacationed in Europe 22 times and maintains, "The excitement never dims." Rome's Leonora Dodsworth found accosting unknown tourists a daunting experience, made more so by the fact that many visiting Americans no longer wear such distinctive raiment as Hawaiian shirts and polyester pantsuits. Says she: "Now you have to move in close enough to eavesdrop and identify their speech." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, whose desk has been piled with tempting brochures for British holidays, confesses "frustration at writing about tours rather than going on them. So come...
...first wave of 1983 travelers is already home, and they are mostly delighted by the hospitality, the bargains and the rare attractions they were offered. Ronald and Sandra Karp of Belmont, Mass., who spent their June vacation in Florence, Rome and Venice, were deeply impressed by "unbelievable" low-priced meals. After all the warnings they heard about purse snatchers, says Ronald, "we were paranoid by the time we got there. But the Italian people were warm and friendly, and nobody cheated us." Many returning tourists babble of the bargains to be had in European stores; on goods ranging from Armani...
...seldom-in the 1980s at least-evincing the faults of isolation, but showing an openness to experience at all levels. Consciously or not, knowledge is what they bring back along with the Koda-chromes and fishermen's sweaters: knowledge and the overriding memories of good times. As one Rome-based American allows, "It's a great year to be in Europe, to be thin and to have dollars." And stamina. Never in peacetime have so many Yanks deployed themselves across the map of Europe in search of entertainment, uplift and, dammit, a good time. It may all prove...
Maurizio Manzini, manager of American Express in Rome, sees the emergence of a "new kind of American in Europe." He explains, "Today's tourists have more interests and a different cultural background from the elderly, usually wealthy client who in past years wanted everything organized down to the last, tiniest detail. They like to wander and find out things on their...
...their part, Americans are finding summertime conditions in Europe less than idyllic. The hassle has to be viewed as part of the fun. Airports, particularly in Spain, Italy and Greece, tend to be chaotic. In Athens or Rome, it can take half a day to cash a traveler's check at a bank. Pickpockets have proliferated in most major cities, particularly in Seville, Madrid and Paris, where organized bands of small boys prey on the unwary in places like the Louvre; there local police have even enlisted American tourists to act as decoys. And travelers protest as bitterly...