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Originally Posted by KNS
Of course you can travel with those escorted group tours but that really doesn't appeal to me. Does anyone here have any experience hiring a guide for the day (half day..?) in Paris, Amsterdam, etc.? What about getting tickets for popular museums like the Louvre?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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It depends on the guide. Some are great, love what they do, and will give you details and anecdotes that you wouldn't get from any other source. We hired a guide in Italy, it was a guy who put together a group of about 10 people. He guided us through Pompeii and Capri and it was great. We did something similar with a woman in Rome and she was awful.
I'm done seeing the "sights." I guess you have to do it once, but now we're looking at renting a small house or apartment near Bordeaux or Florence and just living there for a month. It seems like it would be fun to be around some locals long enough to get to know them. I did this in Mexico and had a great time.