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The problems I solve

• We don't want to queue behind two hundred people.
• The Douro looks identical with every operator.
• We don't want to eat in tourist restaurants.
• We don't know how many days each place deserves.
• We're afraid the guide will lecture us.
• We need a driver, but we don't want another stranger.
• We want to buy something real, not a fridge magnet.
• There's an occasion, and it has to be right.
• We're vegetarian, my mother's knee is bad, my father is 82.
• We don't want to deal with a call centre.