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    A Gentleman Abroad: A Concise Guide to Traveling with Confidence, Courtesy, and Style
    A Gentleman Abroad: A Concise Guide to Traveling with Confidence, Courtesy, and Style
    A Gentleman Abroad: A Concise Guide to Traveling with Confidence, Courtesy, and Style
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    A Gentleman Abroad: A Concise Guide to Traveling with Confidence, Courtesy, and Style

    By John Bridges and Bryan Curtis

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    A Gentleman Abroad provides basic and helpful information for any man traveling to the 40 most popular foreign destinations in the world.

    In addition to aphorisms and sidebars that make the books in the GentleManners series unique, this book contains 40 chapters, one for each destination. Within each chapter will be almanac data, charts on average monthly temperature, foreign size charts for shopping, time differences, embassy information, basic foreign phrases, tipping customs, and other information that will allow a gentleman to navigate the city properly. Among the cities included are Rome, Paris, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Amsterdam and Berlin.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateApr 8, 2007
    ISBN9781418554101
    A Gentleman Abroad: A Concise Guide to Traveling with Confidence, Courtesy, and Style
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    John Bridges

    John Bridges, author of How to Be a Gentleman, is also the coauthor, with Bryan Curtis, of seven other volumes in the best-selling GentleManners series. He is a frequent guest on television and radio news programs, always championing gentlemanly behavior in modern society. Bridges has appeared on the Today Show, the Discovery Channel, and CBS Sunday Morning, and has been profiled in People magazine and the New York Times.

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      A Gentleman Abroad - John Bridges

      A

      GENTLEMAN

      ABROAD

      1

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      A

      GENTLEMAN

      ABROAD

      1

      A Concise Guide to Traveling

      with Confidence and Courtesy

      JOHN BRIDGES

      AND

      BRYAN CURTIS

      A_Gentleman_Abroad_0003_001

      Copyright © 2007 by John Bridges and Bryan Curtis.

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without prior permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fundraising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Bridges, John, 1950–

         A gentleman abroad : a concise guide to traveling with confidence and courtesy / John Bridges and Bryan Curtis.

           p. cm.

         ISBN-13: 978-1-4016-0311-3 (hardcover)

         ISBN-10: 1-4016-0311-4 (hardcover)

          ISBN-13: 978-1-4016-0310-6 (leather)

         ISBN-10: 1-4016-0310-6 (leather)

         1. Travel etiquette. 2. Etiquette for men. I. Curtis, Bryan, 1960– II. Title.

      BJ2137.B75 2007

      910.2'02—dc22

      2006100642

      Printed in the United States of America

      07 08 09 10 11 — 5 4 3 2 1

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      78 Things Every Gentleman Who Travels Abroad Should Know

      Amsterdam, The Netherlands

      Athens, Greece

      Auckland, New Zealand

      Bangkok, Thailand

      Beijing, China

      Berlin, Germany

      Bogotá, Colombia

      Bombay (Mumbai), India

      Brussels, Belgium

      Budapest, Hungary

      Buenos Aires, Argentina

      Cairo, Egypt

      Cape Town, South Africa

      Caracas, Venezuela

      Casablanca, Morocco

      Copenhagen, Denmark

      Dublin, Ireland

      Edinburgh, Scotland

      Hong Kong, China

      Jerusalem, Israel

      Lisbon, Portugal

      London, England

      Madrid, Spain

      Manila, Philippines

      Mexico City, Mexico

      Monte Carlo

      Montreal, Canada

      Oslo, Norway

      Paris, France

      Prague, Czech Republic

      Reykjavik, Iceland

      Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

      Rome, Italy

      Saint Petersburg, Russia

      Seoul, South Korea

      Stockholm, Sweden

      Sydney, Australia

      Tokyo, Japan

      Vienna, Austria

      Zurich, Switzerland

      INTRODUCTION

      Whenever a gentleman travels abroad, he has a dream in mind. Even if he travels frequently on business or for pleasure, he always fantasizes about a trip that will be everything he wishes it to be.

      He holds his breath in hopes of seeing all the sites he has read about. He hopes for afternoons at small cafés and long, lingering evenings at fine restaurants. He imagines himself strolling through sidewalk markets, bargaining for a special keepsake, and later pointing it out to his friends as he shares the story of how he picked it up in Paris or Madrid or Sydney.

      He envisions himself at the opera at the Grand Arena in Verona, in the bleachers for the World Cup Finals, in the stalls for a play in London’s West End, or on a streetside in Bangkok, hearing music such as he has never heard before.

      For the gentleman who still envisions travel as a wondrous experience, an escape from the workaday world, this book opens all those doors. What’s more, it reminds every gentleman that there are universal laws of courtesy. Although other people may crowd in front of the line, or snap photos or run video cameras in art museums, a gentleman resists all temptations to act like an ugly American. He waits his turn and takes his time. He turns off his camcorder when he is instructed to do so. He enjoys his experience, luxuriantly. He does not hurry. He is calm.

      Travel restrictions change, but the urge to travel remains the same. Whenever a gentleman travels abroad—by air, by ship, by train, or by car—he is fulfilling a dream. He is making memories. He does his best to make sure they are good memories—or at least unique, irreplaceable ones—so he can cherish them for a lifetime to come.

      A NOTE ON THE FOREIGN PHRASES

      For each city where the official language is not English, we have included several gentlemanly phrases. These are in no way representative of all the words and phrases a gentleman might attempt to master before visiting these locales. A gentleman would be wise to purchase a foreign language dictionary as well as an audio program in order to learn the proper pronunciation of the words and phrases he will need.

      For the English-speaking destinations, we have included a sampling of words and phrases that differ from their American counterparts. An informed gentleman knows that even though English may be spoken in a foreign country, some of the usage may be unfamiliar.

      78 THINGS EVERY

      GENTLEMAN WHO TRAVELS

      ABROAD SHOULD KNOW

      A gentleman travels to other countries in order to experience different cultures, taste new foods, and expose himself to new experiences.

      A gentleman does not assume that his own culture is superior to that of every other nation on the globe.

      A gentleman understands that, in every language, please and thank you are the most important words he can learn. He uses them frequently, knowing that the more often he uses them, the closer he will come to sounding like a native.

      A gentleman knows that simply speaking more loudly will not help a non-English-speaking person understand him one bit more clearly.

      If a gentleman does not speak the language of the country in which he is traveling, he does not pretend otherwise. He is not afraid to say to the clerk in any shop, the server in any restaurant, or the police officer on any street corner, Excuse me. Do you speak English?

      A gentleman is never ashamed to ask, Would you mind saying that again, a little more slowly, please?

      A gentleman resists using profanity at all times, but he is especially careful to do so in foreign countries, where cursing may be considered a dire affront or even a religious abomination.

      A gentleman does not assume that, simply because he does not understand the language of the country he is visiting, the people of that country do not understand English. Because he is a gentleman, he is careful of what he says at all times.

      A gentleman may wish to travel with an organized tour group, with a small group of friends or family, or on his own. At the

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