RANSVESTIA

I am not going to burden you with the details of all events in all cities but we met FP friends in many of them who showed us around their cities. From Amsterdam to Paris and acquaintance with a French group dedicated to helping FPs and TSs. Went to the Carousel which was loud and crowded but our friend knew many of the girls and they came over to our table and autographed a couple of programs. I was flattered to learn that several of them were sur- prised to learn that I was an FP having taken me for a GG-good for a girl's self image. From Paris to Switzerland, Zurich, Lucerne and a bus trip through the Alps. Then by air over the Alps to Rome and side trip to Naples, Pompeii, Sorento and countryside. By the famous Rapido train to Florence and its famous art treasures. Then another train to Venice, its canals, Piazzo San Marco, Rialto bridge, cathedrals and all the rest. Then it was off to Vienna, the land of Strauss, and we took an excursion to the Vienna Woods with a singing bus driver yet. A beautiful city after Paris, Rome and other Italian cities because it was more open with wide streets well laid out and lots of parks, etc. One of my favorite European cities. After a couple of days there, by air to Stockholm and met at the airport by Annette who was the leader of the Swedish division of FPE of North Europe.

I'll have to back up a bit at this point to mention that in various ways knowledge of Transvestia and what was going on in the FP world in the U.S. found its way abroad. Thus we ended up with first subscribers and then international members of FPE in a number of countries but notably Sweden, Denmark and England which is why we had included them on our itinerary. Annette in Sweden and Erna in Denmark had been instrumental after joining FPE themselves in pulling together others of their country sisters and forming what was in the beginning Swedish and Danish chapters of FPE and then in due course, since all national groups want to feel that they belong to themselves so to speak and not as associate members of an American organization, they set up what they called Phi Pi Epsilon of Europe and took in not only Swedish and Danish members, but Norwegians and Finnish sisters in the Swedish group and Dutch and German members in the Danish group.

So when we landed in Stockholm it was the beginning of a week of

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