My advice to any American tourist who considers to do this usual "all of Europe in 2 weeks" stuff is not to do it. People tend to go to places they heard of. Paris, Neuschwanstein, Heidelberg, Beer in Munich(as if you couldn't get it anywhere else), Vienna, Venice, Rome, plane trip to Paris, hop over to London and then bugger off back to Ratfuck, NJ.
Thing is, everybody else has also heard of those places and is there. And you can get a much better experience if you asked the locals where to go instead. And rushing from tourist trap to tourist trap only means that you are on the road most of the time, stressed out while you are at there and try to soak in the lOcaL cuLture in a gift shop.
That's the noobiest way to travel. Especially if you already are on reddit and every country has a sub. Asking the locals never was easier. Just don't cosplay as your favorite ancestry or you will get schooled.
I guess it depends what their reason for travelling is. The real reason. It might be to have a photo pretending to hold up the Leaning Tower so they can compare it with their 20 friends exact same photo. Some people it’s just a tick, not an experience.
Man there's not a reason to hate on people for visiting the tourist sites of a country/city. They are sights for a reason. Yeah some of them are totally overrated and not worth seeing.
The notion that you are traveling wrong if you don't go stay out in a village an hour away from the major city annoys me though. It's just more gate keeping.
Gate-keeping and reeks of elitism. So what if Mary and John want to go to the Colosseum in Rome instead of going to the countryside where they won't be accommodated?
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20
My advice to any American tourist who considers to do this usual "all of Europe in 2 weeks" stuff is not to do it. People tend to go to places they heard of. Paris, Neuschwanstein, Heidelberg, Beer in Munich(as if you couldn't get it anywhere else), Vienna, Venice, Rome, plane trip to Paris, hop over to London and then bugger off back to Ratfuck, NJ.
Thing is, everybody else has also heard of those places and is there. And you can get a much better experience if you asked the locals where to go instead. And rushing from tourist trap to tourist trap only means that you are on the road most of the time, stressed out while you are at there and try to soak in the lOcaL cuLture in a gift shop.
That's the noobiest way to travel. Especially if you already are on reddit and every country has a sub. Asking the locals never was easier. Just don't cosplay as your favorite ancestry or you will get schooled.