"...What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, complaining about the tea - "Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home..."
E.M. Forster dings those sorts of tourists in A Room With A View as well: "Rome is where we saw the yaller dawg!" (the best part of that bit being that the Rev. Mr. Eager is as bad as the Americans :) ) Not a new problem, and it seems as if we don't have any better solutions now than we did 100 years ago. Alas.
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E.M. Forster dings those sorts of tourists in A Room With A View as well: "Rome is where we saw the yaller dawg!" (the best part of that bit being that the Rev. Mr. Eager is as bad as the Americans :) ) Not a new problem, and it seems as if we don't have any better solutions now than we did 100 years ago. Alas.