I leave on April 30th from Toronto to go on a Trafalgar European vacation with a friend whose husband can't travel due to health issues. We fly into Heathrow and stay in London a couple of days and then on to France, Switzerland, Monaco and Italy visiting along the way Paris, Nice, French Riviera, Geneva, Pisa, Florence, Venice and Rome. We arrive home late on Mother's Day, May 14.

My friend has never been to Europe so she is very excited. I travel to England fairly frequently and was in Italy four years ago, but it's been quite a few years since I've been to Paris so I'm also looking forward to it.

After that, it's a cruise in mid-January with 7 girlfriends to Barbados, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Antigua and then to our Mexican rental in Los Ayala (45 minutes from Puerto Vallarta) for the month of February.

I'm also contemplating taking a trip to India in October of 2007. Has anyone visited the Golden Triangle and did you have any travel "problems" or visa issues. Thanks!

Pat, Ontario