Can you trust people on the internet?
As my TickerFactory widget , which I found in Mrs Bluebird's Classroom , is counting down days until the last day of school, allow me a small digression from edublogging. My travel bug is nudging me to write a post on travelling, which I haven't done for almost a year. Before our recent trip to Beijing, I stumbled upon an in-depth trip report by a Canadian family of four on Tripadvisor. I took an instant liking to this family because: - before the trip the mother planned a detailed itinerary by reading trip reports and recommendations written by other travelers - during the trip the family would patiently, although a bit boredly wait for the mother to indulge her desire to shop - the mother made her 15 year old son write this excellent trip report. (I can easily relate to two of these.) Anyway, the report said that they hired a car with a driver for a day trip to The Great Wall of China. They hired Victor, whose email address they found on the internet and they strongly recomme...