Travel Advice

Few young men of your age have the opportunity of seeing so many countries. Learn, get about, ferret things out, see everything, make people talk but talk little yourself. Take care who offers you a drink; don't give the girls more money than they're worth, and be careful to take your hat off to religious processions.

A little travel advice from Maurice Druon's "The Iron King," first book in the Accursed Kings trilogy, historical fiction about 14th century France (which George R. R. Martin calls "the original game of thrones")