Your Travel Experts Overseas

A travel guide overseas either "makes or breaks a trip." That's what's said in the profession, and among teachers who know a really great trip from one that's not so hot.

Let's face it: things can and usually do go wrong on a travel trip — rain on a day that sunshine was expected, a truck drivers' strike which closes the highway to Arles, a museum in Florence which was supposed to be open but is closed instead!

What comes into play then is the human factor — using one's wits and professional training to make the best out of things.

What comes into play then is the passports courier.

The passports courier is a young man or young woman — university-trained — who is familiar with the countries and cities you want to visit and who speaks the languages spoken, if different from English.

The passports courier is a "people person." He or she is paid to get to know you, and your group members, and to make things go right for you — or as right as they can go when things go a bit wrong.

They succeed at this task. Witness the many repeat travelers who come back again for another trip with passports — it sometimes doesn't matter where the trip goes — just so long as they get that same courier again.

"I'll go anywhere with Laurent." (or Paola, or Patrice, or Patrick!) We hear it all the time.