SA: 7 stops on the Grand Tour

According to Wikipedia, “the Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe (sic) undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage.”  Well we’re now well into the age of Marvin Shanken and the Grand Tour has collapsed [&hellip


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