After a decade of growth, the economic downturn, coupled with the collapse of the pound, left tour operators with serious over-capacity.
The new prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, and his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis (above left), toured Europe in search of debt relief and support against austerity.
Clockwise from top left: The tour organisers; the tour group; Sean freaking out the organisers by trespassing; Sean with a statue of a button.
"His crosses are fantastic... he can deliver in that area," Ferguson said, having deployed him down the left on tour.
Paris a Pied, which is based in Minneapolis, has a Left Bank tour that lasts three hours and covers a lot of ground, passing through the Mouffetard quarter, the Pantheon, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Sorbonne and and Cluny.
(Though with his shaggy hair, sing-song voice and lived-in sports coat he might not be every tourist's idea of a representative New Yorker). Riders expecting a regulation "now, on the left" bus tour are in for a real ride.
She discusses Palestine with critic and broadcaster Bidisha (left), who toured the West Bank as a reporter in spring 2011 and whose book Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path Through Palestine is an unflinching portrait of life in the West Bank today.
Figure 1 shows exemplarily the complexity of freight forwarding networks for one concrete network with all its possible connections between 40 logistics hubs in Germany (main runs on the left; local distributions tours on the right).
"GREENWICH VILLAGE: NEW YORK'S LEFT BANK," a tour of the streets that have been home to such writers and artists as Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Hopper.
