Welcome Back, Europe

September, 1981

For the past couple of years, American visitors to Europe have been looking very nervously at the bottom line of their restaurant checks and hotel bills. There's even been some pronounced wincing as those brave souls converted the totals to dollars and then wondered why they'd ever left home.It's no secret that the dollar has been in very sharp decline for the better part of the past three travel seasons and that longings to visit Europe have had to be tempered by economic reality. But all that...