Do you recommend using discount travel Web sites, such as Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia?

Well, serious questions have been raised about the impartiality of airfare search engines. So I now turn to a new group of Web sites called aggregators, such as Kayak.com and SideStep.com. What’s so wonderful is that you just use them to find out what’s there and then buy your tickets directly from the airline and don’t pay the additional fee. If you could pick, where would you have been born? I love France; I’m a Francophile. I enjoy going back to Paris and could go there endlessly. France is on the frontier of every subject that effects the enjoyment of your stay—cuisine, music, art, fashion. It’s quite a country. What is the one thing that you never travel without? A book, for when the flight is delayed or you can’t get into the hotel. Instead of storming and shouting, I catch up on important reading that otherwise I might miss. ... more