From Mind the Gap to Don't Leave Gaps!

Thank you to our local guides: Mark (London), Jenny (Paris), Andrea (Venice), Ricardo (Pisa), Nicco (Florence), and Cristina (Rome).

Thank you to our drivers: Ali in Paris and Danilo in Italy.

Thank you to our friendly hotel staffs at Hotel de Bepe in Venice and at Hotel Cordova in Florence.

Thank you Tom for:
- making travel in Europe easier,
- helping us Mind the Gap in London, ensuring that we didn't get lost in the Tube, keeping right except to pass on the escalators,
- sharing bathroom euphemisms: spend a penny, see a man about a dog, pluck a rose (or maybe a small bouquet), use the WC, go to the loo, go to the potty, use the facilities
- helping us to find Westminster Cathedral and be on time for Mass,
- sharing your delightful vocabulary,
- singing snippets of operas,
- waxing poetic over all things Italian, even strange victuels,
- reminding us to look to the right when crossing the street in London and look left everywhere else,
- warning us about the bracelet bandits,
- finding great gelaterias,
- helping us to cross the roads safely in Rome, which was no mean feat, don't leave gaps!
- making fun of the way some of us say herbs . . . so now you need to watch My Fair Lady!
I'm sure everyone will remind me of more.

Thank you to everyone for your cooperation, smiles, promptness, enthusiasm, and . . .