If my dog, Coco Chanel, can make herself understood, so can anyone. Portnoy' s books include advice on what and what not to pack, wear and buy. Forget wearing sneakers in Paris. Portnoy asks what we remember about any trip. It's not necessarily the perfect meal but the terrible, funny disasters.
Women are afraid of making faux pas.
God forbid a woman isn't perfect. I know I am not. There's a hotel I frequent in the country in France, and the first time I was there, I went swimming in what looked like a pond to me. I noticed at dinner that no one would drink the water. Turns out I had been swimming in the hotel's reservoir.