So walk it instead! Active Journeys is a company that's a touch out of the price range we normally cover, but its unusual walking tours of some of Europe's great panoramas are worthy of a splurge, since they deliver the sort of vacation you just can't get from the inside of a moving vehicle.>

Ontario-based Active Journeys' phone number is 416/236-5011, and its not-very-informative Web site is at http://www.activejourneys.com

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