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Where in Europe did you feel U were getting stares?!
This question is not mean to be offensive but have you gone to a city where you felt people stare too much? For me it was Nice in France. I felt so comfotable because I noticed the people there stare alot.
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did you have a breast exposed? They never stared at me, and I have been there several times. Though I am very glamorous looking(I am told) there are too many others also. They do not stare at blacks or orientals also, so are you not telling us something?
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In a post office in Wales. We're fairly tall people and we towered over everyone else in line. Every time I looked around people were staring, but it was not unfriendly.
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After completing a foreign study program, I travelled alone briefly through Europe when I was 20. I was tanned and blond and found myself turning the heads of Mediterranean men. A smolderingly gorgious Italian in uniform stared at me on the train from Brindisi to Rome. I was melting in his gaze and I met his eyes. Alas, I showed my American naivity and embarrasment by laughing. He responded by throwing his very cool cigarette into the aisle, grinding it into the floor, and walking out of the car, a look of disgust on his face. <BR><BR>And that is the story of my European affair 30 years ago.
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Anon, your story made me smile. Let's pretend that after the smoldering- georgeous- (and sneering) Italian stomped off in disgust he went home to a clothesline full of wet nappies and 4 crying babies.. the cad. <grin>
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On the Metro in Paris. I just stood there and told myself, they are staring because I look like a movie star. It was hard, but I did it! <BR>
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Um....www.paranoia.com?
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The metro in Paris. I thought I had grown a 3rd eye on my forehead or something but I later learned from other travelers that everyone gets stared at on the metro. If you stare back at them they will look away.
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anon wrote,<BR><BR>>After completing a foreign study program, I travelled alone briefly through Europe ...A smolderingly gorgious Italian in uniform stared at me ....<BR><BR>And that is the story of my European affair 30 years ago.<<BR> <BR> Good for you. He realized that you knew that he was a jerk.<BR><BR><BR>
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Many, many, many years ago in Finland, up near the Arctic Circle. Children stared at me because I was the first foreigner they had seen. Their mother's told them how rude they were being.<BR><BR>After standing a few rounds at the local pub, I discovered that the Finns are not standoffish, just shy.
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Many, many, many years ago in Finland, up near the Arctic Circle. Children stared at me because I was the first foreigner they had seen. Their mothers told them how rude they were being.<BR><BR>After standing a few rounds at the local pub, I discovered that the Finns are not standoffish, just shy.
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..It was 12 years ago in the Guangzou (sp?) province of China - they were just curious given there weren't too many tourists around then!
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About 30 years ago in several small towns in rural Romania and Yugoslavia. I can't say they had never seen young American backpackers, but they certainly weren't a common sight. We were actually followed around by young people who wanted to practice their English and just have some contact with such exotic creatures.
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Only recall being stared at one time in Rome when I was much younger and travelling with another woman (and it was more than stares!)<BR><BR>Otherwise, no place in Europe. I lived in Thailand for a year and was constantly stared at as well as when I was travelling throughout Asia, but in Europe I've had people come up to me and ask for directions in French, German, Spainish, and Italian...wish I could answer them all!
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I think people stare at each other in subways-it passes the time for many. I doubt they mean anything bad.
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Germany!
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What's a downer is when they've not only stopped staring, they've stopped even noticing you are there!<BR><BR>'nuther 50 yr old
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For me it was in London. <BR>Everytime I blew my noses, people would stare.
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That is because mutant etiquette in London is to blow one nose at a time.
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Try traveling back to my small hometown in Pennsylvania. It's like everyone knew I was from somewhere different!
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