Tourists says the darndest things!

[Dravin]

One of my favorites, "The beach was too sandy."

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[pushka]

Lol!! :)

[WillowTheWhisp]

My favourite:

"No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."

[Wingnut]

This deserves a laugh and a thanks. I like the guy who was intimidated by the elephant.

[Churchmouse]

"...your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

Maybe the dogs had visited the beach the day the picture was taken.

[talisyn]

Speaking as an occasional tourist, I can't even describe how happy I am when i see a McDonalds. It's like the world makes sense again! I don't go there.....I'm just happy to see it

[Dravin]

I wouldn't know the feeling, the only foreign country I've been to is Canada (drove through it when I moved from Fairbanks, Alaska to Utah), it was pretty much the same thing except with a different system of measurement (which only matter for speed limits and distances) and different money. :)

[Madriglace]

Years ago while in Peru after one of the folks missions we ran into a guy who was having a fit because Machu Pichu was so dirty and we had to sit on rocks to listen to the tour guides ... his wife was wearing expensive leather pants and tons of gold ... makes one shake their head when people think other countries should be just like home.

I traveled with a gal once (not my choice) who yelled at a waiter in Germany because he didn't speak English .. she said he was stupid because he didn't speak the language ... a rather pointed "conversation" happened with ... if memory serves ... me telling her that she didn't speak the language etc.

I love to travel and have loved the people everywhere I have been able to go. A little respect goes a long way.

BTW McDonalds kind of lost somethingin the translation in Peru ....

[Dravin]

Heh, kinda reminds me when we stopped at a (the?) Walmart in Whitehorse, they didn't have beef jerky, and when an employee told her that her response was, "The Walmarts in America have beef jerky." Not anywhere near berating somebody for not speaking your foreign language and there was a language barrier (which one wouldn't normally expect in the Yukon Territory) so I think she was getting flustered, still made me want to slink away.

[Madriglace]

Nope ... makes me want to smack them upside the head and tell them to stop acting like an Ugly American .....

One thing I never expected to hear was when I went to Australia ... I had several people tell me they liked my accent!

[Ghost_Rider]

All I am going to say is this...Dude and Dudettes..Here is your sign..along with that..Most of these people will more than likely be up for a Dawin Award in the near future...lol..

[Elgama]

my 2 favourites both I hate to say by American Tourists.

On a tour of Windsor castle a jet went over making it difficult to hear when it was gone a very loud American was heard to ask the tour guide 'why did they choose to build the castle so close to the airport?'

And on a train once 'I visited Scotland last week never going back the weather was too nice'

[Moksha]

Heh, kinda reminds me when we stopped at a (the?) Walmart in Whitehorse, they didn't have beef jerky, and when an employee told her that her response was, "The Walmarts in America have beef jerky."

Canadians never had need of preserving meat by drying it, when all you had to do was string it up in a tree and let it freeze.

- Hitherto Unknown Canadian Facts, 2010.

[Dravin]

Canadians never had need of preserving meat by drying it, when all you had to do was string it up in a tree and let it freeze.

- Hitherto Unknown Canadian Facts, 2010.

The part of America we were coming from was Alaska, it gets a mite nippy there as well. Twas always nice to bag a moose and not have to scramble to keep it from rotting, dress it and hang it up. Ah, those were the days.

Pointless thought: If left long enough in freezing conditions, particularly if in a windy place (such as a tree) the meat would dry out through the process of sublimation, think ice mummies.

[Iggy]

Back in my inactive days, I owned a tavern on the Oregon Coast. One summer afternoon as I was bartending, three young men from Michigan came in, sat at the bar looking out the windows at the bay, sand bar and the Pacific Ocean. They could see a HUGE processing ship out on the horizon. When I finally had a minute to chat with them, they asked me what was on the other side of the lake out there.

I looked out the window, then looked back at them. I asked them did they mean that chunk of land out there, pointing to the sand spit. NO they said, we know that the water that is close to us is the bay, but what land is on the other side of that large lake?

MMmmm, Asia! They looked at each other, then at me and then said "Seriously". Yep, seriously. So what is the name of that lake then, they asked. I was thinking, are you seriously??? but I answered them, Pacific Ocean.

Yep, gotta love tourists!?