My good friend E. just returned from Italy and generously bought me a lovely brown leather wallet form Florence. I was fortunate enough to visit Florence two years ago, when the dollar was not so abysmal, and fell in love with a yellow leather purse in a shop off Ponte Vecchio, or the Golden Bridge, as it is called.

As much as I love to travel, it is pretty unaffordable these days. So I've come up with a solution:
Where to Buy the Best of Everything, a book by Suzy Gershman, $19.99 at Barnes & Noble. If you can't travel to the place in the world that has top quality goods, you can buy it online (of course, that takes the bucks, too.)

Two local stores are in the book: Miami Beach's Brownes & Co. and Palm Beach's Mariko

Soaring airplane costs or not, true shoppers will always find a way. -- Marcia "Bargain Hunter" Pounds

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