The virtual European vacation experience on the cheap..

Okay, don't have the bread to head over to Europe this summer?  Just declared bankruptcy, graduated from an Ivy League university, got that pink slip, and/or working at Barnes and Noble? 

Readers it took me two years to dig out of the debt quagmire I got myself into after visiting the real London two years ago, and the whole place smacked of Disneyland.  I'm rethinking the charm of those mighty expensive European capitals.  Fret not, Babs has some suggestions that may give you a bit of an old world flavor, sans the unfortunate exchange rate, and the mark up caused by socialist medicine. 

Below please find some Northern Hemisphere options you may want to consider until your ship, if ever, comes in. 

• Montreal instead of Paris
• Quebec City, instead of Provence
• Nova Scotia, instead of Scotland
• Upper Peninsula of Michigan instead of Scandinavia
• Toronto instead of London
• Detroit, MI instead of St. Petersburg, Russia
• Miami instead of any third word hell hole capital city in South America
• Victoria, B.C. instead of London
• London, Ontario instead of London, UK
• Detroit, MI instead of Beirut or Kabul

To add to the verisimilitude of the experience you may want to sport indigenous costumes, i.e. a pith helmet, jodphurs, and an ascot when taking tea in Toronto.  A kilt when touring Nova Scotia.  A jaunty beret in Montreal, and guys, be dripping in gold jewelry, and gals, work that cleavage when in Miami. 

Readers, any further suggestions are welcome...