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Tip 149: Special Delivery
Sunday, June 4, 2000
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PROBLEM: Taxi drivers in foreign lands don’t know what the heck you’re talking about.
SOLUTION: Why speak at all when you can use pictures? Kathy Hosty says travelers should head to the nearest tchotchke emporium upon arrival overseas and buy postcards of where they want to go. “While in Barcelona,” Hosty says, “I showed the driver a postcard of Frank Gehry’s fish sculpture, and he drove us right to it.” Our suggestion: Buy some stamps as well, and then afterward you can actually use the postcards as intended.
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