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You'll hardly wish to give a 50-cent tip for a shoe shine. Belgium is not, as before the ( war, a very inexpensive country tourism country for tourism, but on the other hand it it i less expensive today, especially in meals, than it was at the time of my | first postwar visit in 1947. (Luxembourg uses Belgian currency inter*" changeably with its own, but this will be discussed under that country.);

In general, and these generalities are of the first importance, Europe has, at present, one absolutely hard currency, the unique Swiss franc, two "fairly hard" currencies, the Portuguese escudo and the Belgian franc,limited amounts of its currency, varying from the nearly-nothing of Greece and Yugoslavia to the surprising 10,000 pesetas of Spain, this being abou $236 at current free exchange. Spain, by the way, offers a generous rate to travelers in any case. Its present official "traveler's rate" of nearly 41 pesetas to the dollar makes the country very inexpensive country tourism for tourism, regardless of the added 10 or 20 per cent which you may be able to save b] buying your 10,000 peseta limit before entering the country.

Rural Districts. The supreme example is offered by the Cotswolds, a stretch of hill country overlapping Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, which grew rich on the medieval wool trade and surrounds a number of remarkably beautiful small country towns. Each town has a fine church and a redolence of prosperity—once of merchants, now of tourism and prosperous agriculture. The Cotswolds area is stone country —dry stone walls, stone cottages, splendid stone mansions, all set in hills so contoured and wooded by nature and art that they seem to form one enormous park.