Italy

[luka]

just lived off booze, the stale crisps they give you with your drink, and ice cream.

 

[Benny Bunter]

A supermarket pumpkin pasta?

Get the impression you didn't do much research before you went.

 

[luka]

its a holiday not a school field trip.

 

[luka]

you read a wikipedia article before you go on holiday? Whitby is a seaside town in Yorkshire, northern England, split by the River Esk.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I suppose it's like Spain,or most places,if you don't have a local to show you round it's unlikely you'll find any decent food

 

[Benny Bunter]

you read a wikipedia article before you go on holiday? Whitby is a seaside town in Yorkshire, northern England, split by the River Esk.

I'd probably spend 5 minutes on the net to find out what the best fish and chip shop is

 

[luka]

part of the problem with italy is everywhere looks terrible cos nothing is stylish and modern. you can't read the visual language or anything. like in most places you can tell by looking at fonts and interior decor if the food will be good. over there it all looks like a disaster zone.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Yeah that's what it's like here, often the shittiest looking place have the best food, or they might have one particular tapa that's good and that's it.

 

[luka]

it's weird being a tourist. quite demeaning really. sometimes you'll be thinking, what's all this about? why have i bothered to insert myself into this other country? am i just supposed to look at things?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Yeah I probably wouldn't bother visiting anywhere outside of Spain, UK and possibly Italy at this stage. Tourists are wankers really. Unless you've got some kind of connection or a special reason to go it'll always feels weird and a bit wrong

 

[Benny Bunter]

Airports are the worst places in the world.

 

[thirdform]

its a holiday not a school field trip.

it's called ripping off the English. a great passtime. We do it in Turkey as well.

 

[luka]

Airports are the worst places in the world.

coach depots are worse.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

it's called ripping off the English. a great passtime. We do it in Turkey as well.

Must be tough ripping foreigners off these days, with their horribly devalued currency.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Sexual assault in Italy is only sexual assault if it lasts at least ten (10) seconds.

Italian uproar over judge's 10-second groping rule

Young Italians object to the acquittal of a school caretaker who admitted groping a teenage student.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[luka]

heard uk drill over there.

 

[thirdform]

Must be tough ripping foreigners off these days, with their horribly devalued currency.

not really, hyperinflation means the devalued currency follows prices. why of course, that laptop you want to buy is 27000 turkish lira, please sign here...

 

[luka]

Yeah I probably wouldn't bother visiting anywhere outside of Spain, UK and possibly Italy at this stage. Tourists are wankers really. Unless you've got some kind of connection or a special reason to go it'll always feels weird and a bit wrong

i dont think i'd go that far cos it seems important to peer at different places now and then. england is not europe but you can't understand england without seeing europe. it puts it in context. but it is weird and demeaning being a tourist. just a necessary evil really.

 

[thirdform]

i dont think i'd go that far cos it seems important to peer at different places now and then. england is not europe but you can't understand england without seeing europe. it puts it in context. but it is weird and demeaning being a tourist. just a necessary evil really.

England is totally Europe. counterfeit Germans.

 

[thirdform]

only two ways to get around this dilemma
1) Germans aren't in fact europeans, and neither are Scandis. which would prove @shakahislop 's point, but West Asia sounds wrong in every respect.
2) Anglos are now counterfeit yanks, in the true fashion of dialectical reversal.

So which one is it?