treblig, just an OT aside to your remark about the old book "Europe on $5 Per Day"--I had the strange fortune to be stuck in LAX baggage claim recently with one of the co-authors of that book. As a sign of our times, he was in LA with a number of tourism industry notables, including the astronaut Buzz Aldrin, for a symposium on the "Future of Outer Space Tourism" (I swear to God, I am NOT kidding). And his book is now "Europe on $100 Per Day" (And good luck with THAT, I say.)!