![]() In the end, the owners probably still came out ahead because they avoided the high fees charged by the likes of Expedia and Booking. ![]() This week while road-tripping around Greece we showed up in one remote town and immediately paid 90 euros for a waterfront hotel instead of the online price of 110 (including breakfast for two) by asking in person for a room. I don’t do this often, but when I do it almost always works: negotiating hotel prices in person instead of booking in advance. (In case you’re wondering, the average price of a home in Mexico is $90,850.) In-Person Hotel Prices But it turns out housing prices in Mexico went up 11.7% last year and many markets that increased the most had nary a nomad in sight. If you’re an editor trying to formulate a good clickbait article, tying rising housing prices to the remote work trend seems to be a sure bet. News Flash: It’s Not the Nomads Driving Up Housing Prices With the prospect of Erdogan remaining in office a possibility, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Investors are betting the lira will lose another half of its value in the next year” with no change in leadership. Will the country of Turkey (Turkiye) continue down its current spiral or turn things around? That’s still up in the air as neither presidential candidate got above 50% in this month’s election and a run-off is coming. See past editions here, where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you. Murky Turkey/Negotiating Hotel Prices/Free Stays at WyndhamĪ weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. (There’s a note about “major upgrades may entail a slight fee”, but the OSX version was free to people who’d bought classic.) A couple of times I had to email for help and was fixed up immediately apparently by the program’s author, a Swedish musician and programmer named Rolf. The program is frequently upgraded, and upgrades are always free. It’s that social thing - you need to play with people who are better than you, but you really don’t want to waste the patience of good musicians by making them to go over that tricky part for you *again.* It’s relaxing to let the machine do the machine work, and relaxing makes for good music. This cool tool has opened a whole realm of hard tunes to me. ![]() I used to pay much more for those clunky old Maranzes that were nowhere near as useful, and then broke. ![]() Download the demo, and see how it works I believe you’ll agree that the $45 price is an excellent value. Works directly from the CD drive, or with any MP3/AIFF/Wave/AAC/M4A files on your HD, iTunes friendly, originally written for the Mac, now available for Windows as well. If you play like this, I need say very little more: this is our wet dream, as big an invention as written music or the phonograph. And marvel at how inventive and agile your favorite jazzmen/fiddlers/pipers/bluesmen/etc could and can be. Crooked & complicated melody, complex ornamentation, blistering speed? With this you can tune it to your instrument, slow it down, isolate the tricky parts, put them on loops and play along with them over and over until you get it right. This sweetly intuitive program for ear-playing musicians slows down the tune without altering the pitch and/or plays the tune in any key you like.
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