Strange questions friends and coworkers ask about your travels
Mar 5th, 2003, 05:49 PM
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A couple of years ago when I was telling my manicurist about our family ski trip to France, she said,"You're going all the way over there just to ski?" (And it's not as tho, here in W. Pa, we're close to any real mountains!)
Mar 6th, 2003, 02:10 PM
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Hi<BR>We enjoy travel in Eastern Europe and have been to places where we don't hear any english spoken. People ask me why we don't travel to to the more popular tourist sites that Americans usually visit, why would we want to visit some of the places we've seen. We've been to Venice, Paris etc, what's wrong with southern Hungary? We like to visit these places and think of how the rest of Europe must have been to visit years ago.
Mar 6th, 2003, 02:18 PM
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As an American living in England, I think we have to remember that Americans are quite insular compared to other cultures. The country is so large, that just going once place year after year is a big deal to some people. They like the predictability to it. <BR><BR>However, they will never know how awesome it is to stroll on a narrowed cobbled street on a Spring evening after a meal you ordered in a foreign language, people watching, smelling the flowers, and getting lost.<BR><BR>I guess they'd rather stay in a smokey casino and eat at the buffet.
Mar 6th, 2003, 02:31 PM
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A few years ago we spend 2 weeks in London. We were there over the Fourth of July, my manicurist asked me if they celebrated the Fourth "over there". I was so stunned, I laughed out loud, she did not understand.....<BR>guess she was absent during history classes...
Mar 6th, 2003, 02:47 PM
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Diane, I would have laughed also had it not been for the first time I went to England and arrived in London of July 4th. I stayed at a hostel where there were dozens of Brits in a back courtyard shooting fireworks that night. I have told this story to friends about celebrating the 4th in London and they laugh at ME.
Mar 6th, 2003, 03:01 PM
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Diane, I would have laughed also had it not been for the first time I went to England and arrived in London of July 4th. I stayed at a hostel where there were dozens of Brits in a back courtyard shooting fireworks that night. I have told this story to friends about celebrating the 4th in London and they laugh at ME.
Mar 6th, 2003, 03:29 PM
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From a co-worker who had travelled to Europe ONCE (on a grand tour of capitals), when he heard I was headed for the Dordogne, just a year after having visited Provence: "You're going to France? But didn't you already see France last year?"<BR><BR>My least favorite comment, from a co-worker in NJ the day before I left for Sicily: "Oh, so you're headed for Mafialand tomorrow?" My reply: "No, I'm leaving Mafialand and going to Sicily."
Mar 6th, 2003, 03:38 PM
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My husband and I are Americans and were visiting Calabria, Italy last fall. One afternoon we were pulled over by police at a very rural intersection, for what appeared to be no reason.<BR>The officers (in Italian) asked us for our documents and while curiously studying my Rhode Island drivers license he then wanted to know what we were doing in Calabria.<BR>"Siamo on vacanza," I said (we're on vacation) "Qui?"?? the police officer asked incredulously (Here?)<BR>He obviously didn't know what a jewel to visit that region of Italy is. It makes me laugh every time I picture his face.
Mar 6th, 2003, 04:05 PM
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I live in the states, I have family in Canada. I told someone once I was going to visit my family in Canada and they asked if I spoke Canadian? Oh my........... 
<BR><BR>Also when I was telling someone of the 80's music blaring all over Madrid one year they commented that it must have been nice though for me to hear songs sung in American. Groan!!!
<BR><BR>Also when I was telling someone of the 80's music blaring all over Madrid one year they commented that it must have been nice though for me to hear songs sung in American. Groan!!!
Mar 6th, 2003, 05:10 PM
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The first question everyone asks me is "how was the food?"<BR><BR>I don't know why... maybe because I'm the one naturally skinny person surrounded by a sea of dieters? No matter where I go or what I do, the interest is always about the food!<BR>
Mar 7th, 2003, 05:35 AM
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Not a questions, but the oddest comment I regularly get is, "You camera takes good pictures."<BR><BR>I've thought of sending the camera on a trip without me and seeing how well it does<BR><BR> Keith
<BR><BR> Keith
Mar 7th, 2003, 05:55 AM
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Just yesterday a friend who works in an "all you can eat" buffet here in the South asked why would any one want to eat French food when they could eat here. He asked is the food really that good? I guess one should not cast their pearls to swine.
Mar 17th, 2003, 05:01 PM
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I was having a conversation with my old roommate about New York City and how there was around 7M people that lived there. She looked at me and said, "There can't be 7M people in NYC, there are only 7M people in the world." When I tried to tell her that there were billions of people in the world, she just shook her head at my ignorance and laughed. She never believed me even when other people tried to tell her I was right!
Mar 18th, 2003, 12:41 AM
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Don't beat yourselves up too much. There are plenty of beach cafés throughout the Mediterranean offering a full English breakfast, 'Tea just like mother makes', British beers and satellite TV of British football games; and for all I know, there are German, Dutch and Belgian equivalents. <BR><BR>Years ago, one of those columns that picks up on things people say quoted a letter in a local newspaper whose writer had spent three weeks in France, having taken several sliced, wrapped loaves of bread from home, and what was left was still fresh when they got home - and this was 'a tribute to our Leicester bakery'. Taking bread to FRANCE for heavens' sake.
Mar 18th, 2003, 03:38 AM
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Jor's message: "the first time I went to England and arrived in London of July 4th. I stayed at a hostel where there were dozens of Brits in a back courtyard shooting fireworks that night."<BR><BR>That just shows you - any excuse for a party, us English!!!! 
