When I popped open my email this morning, I was amused to find an invite from a Seattle friend to join in on a "Haunted History Tour" - seems there's more than meets the eye to the old brewery neighborhood. I'm all about the wacky local diversion - they're often quite cheap, close to home, and it's always thrilling to learn more about what's in your own backyard. Also, a few years went on the Night Watch tour in the pretty medieval city of Steyr in Austria and had a great time, in spite of the freezing cold and the rapidly whispered translations.