Writer: "You've bought the guidebook, planned your itinerary and you're ready to go".
He said that/ He told you that you had bought the guidebook, had planned your itinerary and you were ready to go.
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Writer: " Is it because the guidebook told you to go and look at those things?"
The writer asked whether/if it was because the guidebook had told you to go and look at those things.
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Writer: "Why do we do it?"
The writer asked/wanted to know why we did it.
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Writer: "What can we do to avoid the tourist trap?"
The writer asked/wanted to know what we could do to avoid the tourist trap.
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Writer: "Don't waste your time looking at ancient monuments".
The writer told us not to waste our time looking at ancient monuments/ The writer said that we didn't have to waste our time looking at ancient monuments.
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Writer: "Nomadic tribes have always stopped when and where they felt like it."
The writer said that/ told us that nomadic tribes had always stopped when and where they had felt like it.
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Writer: "If you are in the countryside, follow the sounds and create your own tourist trail."
The writer said that/ told us that if we were in the countryside we had to/should follow the sounds and create our own tourist trail.
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Writer: "Which of the tips in the article do you think is the most sensible?"
The writer asked/wanted to know which of the tips in the article (we thought) were the most sensible.
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Writer: "Do you use a guidebook when you go on holidays?"
The writer asked/wanted to know whether/if we used a guidebook when we go (went) on holidays.
