IS TRAVEL IN EUROPE OVERRATED?

IS TRAVEL IN EUROPE OVERRATED? Wendy MacCleod had an article in the International Herald Tribune for April 22 which said in the first paragraph, “Travel is exhausting, it’s expensive, and, as one football player chanted upon approaching Stonehenge, it’s ‘o-ver-ra-ted!’” Reading the article was disquieting because we were in Switzerland on a long-anticipated trip to Europe when I read it. I had to agree that our trip was exhausting and that it was expensive, but the trip was precious to us. Mary Jane pointed out that the author of the article was in the position of the theater critic who is jaded from seeing too much theater. The author is in charge of arranging travel-abroad programs for college students. On the other hand, we were taking our first European vacation in five years.