Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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Good old SpainMy sister, upon leaving 6th form, took a year out to work as an Au Pair in Spain. She lived in the Port of Vigo with a Spanish couple along with their young daughter.
My mum, Dad and I travelled down from Yorkshire by car, the 24 hours on a ferry before another 8 hours drive to visit my sister in this un-touristy part of Spain.
As you can imagine, after a full week of the Spanish staring at us for driving in an English car, I assume they hadnt seen one before, it got to be a bit annoying. I asked my sister what the translation for "what are you looking at?" was. My sister duly obliged and I spent the second week of the holiday telling all the nosy Spanish to "Soy tonto!!!".
Sadly, my sister never explained to me until we were ready for the gruelling trip home that I had in fact being blurting out to half of the Vigo population that "I am an idiot". Oops.
(, Tue 12 Jul 2005, 22:10, Reply)
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