Oh to be young and not bothered by reality

There are a couple of under 30 year olds at work that got a cheap airfare to Europe and are currently planning a trip for March, and as I've just returned, they are using me as a resource. They have 17 days. Currently, they want to visit London, Paris, Berlin, spend 4 days in Koblenz visiting relatives, Venice and Rome. And maybe either Innsbruck or Salzburg. Oh, and they don't want to spend more than a $1000, each.

They make me want to run screaming from the room.

I've explained that they will end up "seeing" nothing at that speed. The girl explained to me that one could see everything worth seeing in London in a day. She was lobbying to ditch Paris from the plans as all it had was the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, and she'd seen the Mona Lisa and it wasn't very interesting so unless you *liked* art, there was really no reason to take the time to visit Paris.

"Speechless" pretty well summed up my reaction.