Show travelers etiquette in europe in a it european railway car the per son who sits next the window facing the engine has the right to decide whether it shall be up or down but it woula be very bad manners to insist on having the window up unless there was borne some special reason for doing so it aked to lower it by another pas or vice versa if you arrive early you can secure the seat you prefer by placing your pa per or some other of your possessions upon it when staying in a continental hotel the custom Is to bow to the roomful when you go in to meals if the visitors are foreigners it if you are making a stay you keep I 1 the same table or the same place at a table for meals during the whole of the time |