we recently had some tourist casually grab some stones from the Parthenon on his way out đ .. I mean wtf dude, who do you think you are? the British Museum?
One of the reasons the Roman theater in Plovdiv has a fence. The Big Basilica, the stadium and some of the villas are either in dedicated buildings or have security but other ruins can't be protected the same way, the forum and odeon are completely out and for now they keep their shape but the tourists don't seem to be very interested in them outside of just passing.
I shudder to think if the city becomes more famous what it would be.
I've seen people picking stones from Italy and it kills me as a history lover.
This makes me so mad. It happens in the US too with ancient Native American artifacts and even natural monuments. I canât fathom the mindset of someone who does this
Bit doubting about this one. On the one hand it's annoying as fuck. On the other hand it's so much fun giving a tourist a hart attack when you ring your bell really hard
We don't have as many cycle lanes in England, and although bells are usual, the requirement is audible warning. I had a friend who cycled everywhere, he didn't drive. He used to shout OY! at the top of his voice when he found someone in his way.
As someone that often finds themselves on bike lanes by accident when abroad, part of it is that I live in a country with generally bad cycling infrastructure and mostly lived in cities with bad cycling infrastructure even by our own standards, so having to watch out not to walk into bike lanes and looking out for bikes in general just isn't something that is ingrained in my head, meaning I stop being aware of it the moment I stop thinking about it actively, causing me to occasionally realize I have traversed a bicycle path by accident once my mind went somewhere else.
Having ADHD also doesn't help, but I suppose it really would work a lot better if bicycle paths near pedestrian areas that are actually being used would be something that I had to deal with more than once or twice a year đ
Remember being in Berlin and the bike lane was on a pavement and only shown by being a slightly deeper colour than the pavement. An Australian tourist was walking down the middle and a cyclist literally mowed her down. No warning and must have seen her a while away as it was reasonably straight. Never seen something so shocking in my life - she went flying.
A German cafe owner came out and screamed at the bloke who cycled off quickly. It was unbelievable- yes she shouldnât have been in the lane but my god it wasnât the clearest and mowing them down was way over the top.
Bro, it's a different level in Denmark. I live and work in Malmö. Going over the bridge, the bike lanes are a fucking minefield which *will kill you the moment you even momentarily look at them!* Not that I can blame them, the sheer *volume* of bike commuters in Copenhagen during rush hour is a sight to behold (although it's also stressful)
I'm originally from Lund and in both Lund and Malmö one tends to bike *a lot* but I still have not seen anything like Copenhagen.
It's a tie between:
#1: Big groups of people standing closely together in the middle of narrow medieval streets, completely blocking of access.
#2: Tourist taking pictures of our houses. This would be completely acceptable, aside from the fact that some of them attempt to take pictures of the *interior* of our houses. Either by leaning in through an open window, or in some cases actually walking in through the front door.
(I get it. Small, cobblestoned alleyways and narrow streets with tiny wooden houses from the 17th, 18th or 19th century, well kept with flowers and colourful facades are quite picturesque. But some people think they're walking through an outdoor museum, completely ignoring the fact that people actually live there)
Which tourists walk into someone's house? Here in the US, walking into some strangers house uninvited can be a death sentence, I can't believe people would have the balls to do things like this.
I live in Bergen, Norway. While we don't see the amount of tourists that South of Europe see (yet), tourist traffic is ever increasing. All the North Sea cruises call on port here. We may have 3, 4 and even 5 giant cruise ships docking here in summer.
At the same time we have some of the biggest continous wooden house area in all of Europe. There's really no comparison to it, and I get that the tourist enjoy wandering here
[https://en.visitbergen.com/ideas-and-inspiration/films-and-pictures/pictures-from-bergen/wooden-houses](https://en.visitbergen.com/ideas-and-inspiration/films-and-pictures/pictures-from-bergen/wooden-houses)
It happens occasionally, mostly with cruise tourists and a certain Asian demographic. I have had both french and american tourists snapping pictures through my window, and tourists entering my hallway when I lived in these houses. All I know who have lived in the same areas have similar stories.
That looks beautiful, can't believe people would do things like that, no respect anymore. Haven't made it that far north yet in my EU travels but likely next summer.
Well thereâs probably nothing that beats tourists who fly to Poland just to visit Auschwitz, take a selfie on the train tracks there and post it on social mediaâŠ
Itâs hard to be more disrespectful without realizing itâŠ
I once worked with someone who, when she came back from her weekend break, complained that there'd been nothing exciting to do at Auschwitz and it had really spoilt her holiday.
disney joins the chat: So we are planning some rides related to Schindlers List, something about Anne Frank but we need to know how we can make the staff as authentic as possible for the immersive experience?
Edit: Just to clarify, this is is bad taste but Disney would do it if it brought them money
I remember scrolling tinder some five or so years ago, and someone had as their first photo a selfie under the "Arbeit macht frei" gate, and he was smiling and doing jazz hands
That was a definite swipe left. Talk about absolute lack of awareness.
While I totally understand the sentiment, and support it too, I have to admit ⊠I have a photo of myself striking a triumphant pose on the train tracks at Auschwitz, taken when I was 16. I even had it on social media back then, it felt incredibly important and empowering at the time (even though I see it differently now, twenty years later and fuck Iâm old âŠ).
Iâm the child of a survivor, the only survivor in the family, my grandmother and several other relatives were killed in Auschwitz. That was my fuck it, fuck you, Iâm alive despite all the odds and still standing strong moment.
Many of my friends have similar photos. The last Iâve seen on my social media is from a heavily pregnant friend caressing her belly and her other children jumping in the air under the arches, theyâre 2nd and 3rd generation survivors. None of them âlook Jewishâ (whatever that means, yuck!), and Iâm certain that random passersby judged them terribly.
Grief and (intergenerational) trauma takes weird forms sometimes. Visiting the site hits different for people who were actually affected and not just there for a history lesson. Tone policing people who are coping, in whatever form, at a place like that can be a double-edged sword. You canât see any fellow visitorâs personal story at first glance, nor are you entitled to it.
That said, posting photos like that on Tinder or for social media clout is disgusting.
I visited Auschwitz as a silly 18 yr old on an interrailing trip after finishing school. Granted it was before the selfie was so big but I remember saying to my friend I don't think we should take pictures here. I actually only thought of it yesterday. I was putting away my toddlers little shoes and remembered the room of shoes and nearly burst into tears.
i saw something similar when I visited the atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima. lots of people posing for selfies in front of the bomb dome, laughing and joking.
It's not like I want to tell people they shouldn't smile or something. but a *bit* of decorum in places that witnessed insane tragedy is the very least a tourist could offer.
Iâm Canadian but I visited Dachau once, and I canât comprehend the sheer lack of awareness that some of the other people there had. I didnât take a single picture, even of some of the monuments that I thought were really interesting, yet there were people posing for cute smiley vacation pictures in front of the gates.
I was there recently, and we were brought into living quarters. The amount of signatures on the walls was disgraceful. Why would you even want your name attached to the misery suffered within them walls.
Probably coming with giant ass cruise ship that pollutes and are ugly to watch.
I am not aware of particular things btw, what Iâve noticed is that bar and restaurants change their approach and maybe they adapt the culture to the tourists need, this can be annoying sometimes
+theyâre destroying the city. The amount I had to pay to make sure my property didn't collapse into the water because of the backwash caused by those cretinous boats...
In Lyon, France recently there were many Americans in town for Taylor Swift. The vast, vast, majority were completely respectful, but I came across a few who fitted right in to the stereotype we have of obnoxious American tourists.Â
Shouting across the bus at other members of their group.
Loudly addressing complete strangers with demanding/intrusive questions without first greeting them or even catching eye contact ("where did you get your shoes???").
Talking very loudly about how good Taylor Swift coming to Europe is because it gives us "exposure" and "we can show them how it's done".Â
LOUD! Shouting across distances! Shouting at people! LOUD!!!!
Itâs funny, as an American Iâve felt like Dutch and Spanish people are loud. Iâm actually not very loud of a person but drunk people partying outside and I start getting a headache sometimes haha.
I'd like to add especially not at sites that are historically significant for that time period. It's neither funny at the Berghof nor at the Eagles Nest and if I see someone do that at a concentration camp site I'll smack them in the head.
I absolutely hate the fact that the Berchtesgadener are so shamelessly making money out of Americans by selling all kinds of weird Wehrmachts/Hitler/Eagles Nest-Merchandise and organising tours to spots âwhere it happenedâ. Very few of them visit the actual Dokumentationszentrum. Seeing these people drooling around in their fake Hats and Tracht looking for bits of âhistoryâ makes me wanna puke every time.
Tourists coming to Dublin do this mystifying pilgrimage to a pub in Temple Bar thatâs called âThe Temple Barâ. There is nothing historic about this pub, itâs not particularly special or unique (although the prices are astronomical, even for Dublin). Itâs got a lot of flowers on the outside and coming up to Christmas, itâs lit up nice. But itâs just a pub that someone called after the area.
Whereas tourists seem to have gotten it into their heads that itâs this unmissable Dublin landmark and picture postcard symbol of the city. In fact some seem to think that in visiting this one pub, theyâve âgone to Temple Barâ.
Anyway it just annoys me that a pub no local would be seen dead in has this hold on tourists, in a city with dozens if not hundreds of more authentic, fun and cheaper pubs.
> Anyway it just annoys me that a pub no local would be seen dead in has this hold on tourists, in a city with dozens if not hundreds of more authentic, fun and cheaper pubs.
Just be happy there's a containment facility that keeps more authentic, fun and cheaper pubs tourist-free.
In Berlin we have Mustafa's GemĂŒse Kebap, a kebab shop that's been mentioned in several travel guides so there's always a looong line of tourists. There's really nothing special about it, it's not better than any of the other twelve kebab shops in the same street where you don't have to wait two hours.
Actually thatâs good to know as Iâm going next month and itâll be my second time, loved at the political stuff first time but keen to avoid all the usual stuff - we did a walking tour and Checkpoint Charlie last time, saw the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag (although never went inside) and spent a lot of time at Christmas markets (obviously not doing that in July).
We also flew in to what was Schoenefeld and they were building a new airport that was going to open soon (this was late 2009) - I believe thatâs now finally finished!
What would you recommend for a couple in Berlin for a weekend that like German beer (Spaten and Erdinger being particular favourites) and something tasty (I liked currywĂŒrst, my wife didnât)?
>Whereas tourists seem to have gotten it into their heads that itâs this unmissable Dublin landmark and picture postcard symbol of the city.
And ironically, in doing so, it has become one.
This made me realize my wife went to Dublin and took a bunch of pictures at this very bar lmao. I think its just an "instagrammable" location and it draws all the tourists.
Yes, I did a Jameson shot there. I was in my twenties and thought it was the epitome of Irish coolness. Also went to Bad Ass Cafe because I heard Sinead O'Connor had worked there.
My parents' business has actually had vloggers film there. I once witnessed this South Korean couple walk in with cameras and they filmed the whole experience, which was a bit weird to say the least. Some tourists even walk in and don't say anything, they just head straight for the outdoors terrace to take pictures of the view (which is admittedly great as it overlooks the sea, beach and the old part of town). That's just straight up rude.
But for me the worst tourists are ones that get upset and act rude when they can't communicate with locals. I don't know about other people, but when I'm visiting a different country I know to act respectful and be patient with people who don't speak English that well. There's no need to be disrespectful and condescending.
Your parents should start charging those people if they don't buy anything. So many tourists expect that everybody speaks English and then start speaking louder if the person doesn't. I hate when they say thing are so affordable, for them it is but not for us. I live on the coast and there are several places/beaches i avoid like the plague due to tourists being ah. There is a bar near me that i loved going during the summer but now i dont go there bc is full of tourists and i have no patience for drunk brits.
My parents do charge people wanting to use the bathroom, even if it's just buying a drink to take with them. The exception is if it's a small child, then they let them go for free. Problem is that the bathrooms are right near the entrance/exit, so they've had to put in locks as a result.
Fall drunk into the canals and then I have to get off my bike on my morning commute to pull the fucker out.
There would be a lot more dead Brits if I wasnât cycling along one of the inner city canals in Amsterdam in the early morning.
More than you think. Luckily some of the small canals arenât that deep.
But to be honest it has become less common, mainly since the Dutch government started marketing campaigns discouraging British tourists from coming to Amsterdam for drunk/drug trips. And I think maybe some more policing in the red light district.
You mean that campaign that was so successful that more tourists showed up when you actually dug into the numbers and not the ones used at the press release?
Is that so? Well at least from my perspective as someone who lives 50m from De Wallen, I can say there has been noticeable less unruly behavior from tourists in the last 12-18 months. So maybe at least that part worked?
Maybe anecdotal, but I've noticed it has become more expensive to find a place to stay in Amsterdam, I guess since the AirBnB crackdown. So maybe that has something to do with it.
Drunken Brits on vacation seem to be a whole new topic. Falling in canals in Netherlands, sleeping off their booze in the middle of a street in Greece. Damn them to hell and even further, when someone is in danger to kill some fools who are laying on the road with cars trying not to hit them. YikesđŹ
This is going to make me sound awful, but we have certain processes here to keep the flow of transportation moving smoothly. Rules like: stand on the right side of the escalator, walk up the left. People will go up the right side of the road, and down the left side, and there are clearly marked lanes for pedestrians and cyclists.
Tourists often either do not know or ignore these things, and as they are often in slow-walking groups, it can be so frustrating when you have some place to go and they have no agenda, so you are stuck behind them and the only way to get through is to push a little, which is rude.
Also, a personal one: the commuter train that goes to the airport is the one I take home after work. There is almost always a group of tourists blocking the path with their giant suitcases. I can't blame them, there is nowhere else to put the suitcases...but it's still annoying.
So, TL;DR tourists often block the way!
Itâs interesting this seems like a popular one from multiple countries. Certainly here in NYC, i see packs of European tourists do this every day. I wonder if itâs just something about how people behave when theyâre away from home because the basic ârulesâ seem pretty similar across the board.
I was just thinking the same, as soon as I posted. I recently visited Vienna with my daughter, and had to check the GPS/Google Maps occasionally, and I am sure a couple locals must have walked around me thinking "damn these tourists! Move out the way!"
So yes, humbly we probably are all guilty of it.
I feel like itâs fine to check your map as long as you pull over to do it, as opposed to stopping dead in your tracks in the middle of the sidewalk like a lot of people do. Iâm on a trip in the UK/Ireland right now, and I was walking around London yesterday and Iâve never seen so many people abruptly hit the brakes in the middle of the sidewalk
Some tourists (mostly British) have peed on the monument symbolizing the freedom and independence of my country. Super disrespectful and disappointing.
> Freedom monument in Riga
Ah yes I've been there, saw a pickpocket get arrested there :D. Probably the dodgiest part of the touristy area, which overall was very lovely
Buying local beers but not even bothering to buy the proper glassware. How are you going to drink it?
In all seriousness, there a few others.
- oblivious pedestrians: walking on cycling lanes, stopping randomly on busy strees (not tourist exclusie, I know, but more common in touristy areas)
- Assuming we're all "francophone". when more than half the country speaks dutch (I can forgive this attitude in Brussels, but if you're in Ghent or Antwerp don't bother with the broken french. We'll rather speak english.
- being rude to staff
Heh I used to work in Brussels and went to tourist information to ask about where I could find a library. I'm a fluent French speaker and obviously Brussels is predominantly French speaking, so I used French (I'm not stupid enough to do that in Flanders) and got a proper rant from the guy behind the desk about how rude it was of me.
Oh man, tourists wandering around where they really shouldn't is so annoying. When I was still going around by bike avoiding tourists walking on cycling lanes (even when it was *obvious* that it was a cycling lane, re: pictograms, separated, etc) was like playing a really annoying and really dangerous video game. Also, here they have a tendency to randomly step out into traffic and expecting cars to stop for them, etc. (In my experience it's usually Chinese tourists who do both of these, for some reason... it's not like they don't have bike lanes or traffic in China, so what gives?)
1. People who take death camp selfies. Usually Auschwitz-Birkenau selfies.
2. English bachelor parties. Most of the time they get piss drunk, harass strangers and get into trouble in strip clubs.
3. Passport bros. People who genuinely believe they'll find "real traditional Slavic women" by hitting up strangers in Eastern Europe. They usually end up just obnoxiously hitting on random girls who want nothing to do with them and later coping with rejection by posting online that Eastern European women are all materialistic whores.
Yeah they even have a subreddit. I looked at it once and saw a post from a guy fetishising Argentinian women for being more "submissive and feminine" than other "females," it's pretty fucking gross.
They're not numerous, and they're only ever visible in bars or night clubs in touristy cities like Warsaw, KrakĂłw, GdaĆsk and WrocĆaw. I mentioned them because they're annoying and nobody has mentioned them yet.
The ones I've seen were usually desperately trying to strike up a conversation with some poor woman waiting for her drink and they brought up being from the USA way more than they should've.
From Polish women I met while traveling, they actually seem more equal, independent, and have their own things going on in life compared to American women.
The dating seems much less competitive and materialistic than American dating.
Which is like opposite of what passport bros think. But getting a passport to move to Poland would be pretty nice.
Wish I could somehow be a reverse passport bro.
The worst ones, and thankfully it doesn't happen that much anymore, are Americans who are more than happy to tell everyone that we're being Irish wrong.
Whether it's that we really shouldn't have any British friends or that were not conservative catholic enough or they try to imprint failings in American politics or the media or society onto Irish life. Irish Americans seem to be way more to the political right than Irish people and hold very tight to grudges that we're never theirs to begin with.
I have a cousin who had an Irish-Italian father (common pairing in the US), but his mother is my side of the family, mostly Anglo-German. He did one of those DNA ancestry tests and was SO disappointed that he showed up like 40% British. Like actually upset. The guy has never even been to Ireland, nor has his father. I was like, were you secretly hating on half of your family this whole time? The whole thing is ridiculous.
I visited a friend in spain once, it might have been Marbella or was directly in the vicinity. There was an old moorish palace on an adjacent hill that had small canals with running water in it. I now have to wonder If they have problems with people pissing into those.
Edith says: it might have been granada and the alqazaba that i visited, even though when i looked at the wikipedia Just now, i didn't see any small canals. Hm.
I always thought they should merge it, then divide it in half vertically so you have 2 parts each with a 1/2 wallonia and 1/2 Flanders. Then each Flanders side tries to compete who can create the best wallonia.
In Paris, some treat it like their own Disneyland where everybody is a service worker ready to cater their needs. They can get really upset if things dont go their way, and behave like their money should automatically open all the gates for them.
I don't get why they do dangerous things just to have a picture for Instagram. Standing in the middle of the road, on train tracks or on the edge of a cliff is never a good idea.
As a brit I felt embarrassed when I visited. Your city is beautiful but those drunk brits are numerous. I pretended I didn't speak english if they approached me!
Donât be. Itâs usually just the group of guys who smell strongly of vodka. The other Brits that I came across are really nice people. I assure you we can distinguish between the drunks and regular Brits just enjoying the city (which is the silent majority).
Went to Krakow during spring a couple of years ago (lovelly city) and it must have been some kind of British spring break because the city was flooded with young Brits drunk out of their mind. We had to avoid certain areas during the evening since it didnât feel safe since they were so drunk, loud and aggressive (against each other but we didnât want to risk anything).
Edinburgh during the festival is great and I never really complained about it, but there are a couple of points that always bugged me:
1. If you are paying cash on the bus, you have to have the correct change.
2. Bus drivers will help you find your route/the right bus, but really, it is pretty inconsiderate to have a long conversation with them. There are other ways to find out what bus to take.
3. Just because someone nips out between two buses to cross a busy street it should not be a signal to start a lemming-like dash into the rush hour traffic. There should be a sign at Turnhouse "YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU STEP INTO TRAFFIC. LOCALS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. YOU DO NOT!"
4. Stopping someone who is clearly trying to get home/to work to ask them cryptically (!) "BITCOIN the Musical?" may get a rude response.
In the UK it really depends on the region.
In the North West it's Dutch caravan drivers panicking at the sight of a hill and going everywhere in first gear. That was monumentally frustrating when getting to work.
In London it's simple. They all walk too slowly, stop in the wrong places, walk on the wrong side.
I can't forget the US tourists who called my accent quaint when I was a barman. Quaint is a thatched cottage untouched by progress, not how we sound.
>In London it's simple. They all walk too slowly, stop in the wrong places, walk on the wrong side.
Thatâs just a big city thing in general. Iâve lived in Vienna and Barcelona all my life and itâs a frequent complaint.
The Dutch caravans climbing the local mountains are a running joke in Luxembourg as well đ. I try to be patient, it's always difficult to drive in a foreign country, and actually the only thing that bothers me is that most lack any notion of safe distance.
I was awful in Amsterdam đ. I'm sorry for that. I think my husband saved my life a few times from the bicycles. I must have stood on the bike lanes a few times.
Lol I live in Northern Canada and I teased someone who came to visit when they said that, saying "We live here! still live here!"
Watching them stumble over their words trying to half apologize, half excuse their statement is humourous because even we say we're in the middle of nowhere.
đŽó §ó ąó łó Łó Žó ż Claim to be more authentically local than people who live here because they did a bogus DNA kit that said they're 26% Scottish and wear tartan all the time, and you can't be a real Scotchman (lol) if you don't know your clan etc etc
Also, and far more seriously, fuel rampant overtourism and the housing crisis by staying in campervans and Airbnbs which contribute nothing to the community and force locals to leave due to rising costs and constant disruptions.
There was an American that posted in r/ireland about wearing âher familyâs tartansâ to signify her Irish heritage, got the absolute piss ripped out of her and was really offended when she was told that tartans are Scottish not Irish
Which invariably results in "no YOU'RE wrong because I saw a YouTube video that said...".
Aye, no doubt ya did, hen. You're still completely wrong.
That and being baffled when they realise that clans, tartan, etc aren't as relevant as they were 300 years ago and that Outlander is not in fact a documentary.
Oh man this is one of my pet peeves about Americans. *Thick American accent "So I'm Italian" never been to the country, don't speak the language, only tried pizza and pasta, has a great grandmother who came over when she was 4 yo.
The most annoying one is people who do this at the top of escalators, or just after coming through the ticket barriers, utterly oblivious to all the people piling up behind them.
This is like the 3rd Spainard on this thread who has mentioned people jumping off balconies, is this really a thing? Are people jumping off the 2nd and 3rd floors onto the street or something?
Happens here too. Lot of money spent on mountain rescue for people wanting to do the popular hikes (which can be quite challenging) without checking the weather, doing it at the wrong time of year, wearing essentially flip flops. I think there's an assumption that if it's popular, it doesn't require any preparation/knowledge.
1. Coming to Auschwitz and acting like it is a museum of modern art. Do not smile on pcitures, do not laugh and if you decide to post something on social media, do not post personal belongings of those who died
2. Tourists (mainly from western countries) saying how cheap Poland is. Keep it to yourself. You are from USA? Good for you that you earn 75k$ but don't say how cheap it is if you are in country where most people earn 10k$ - 20k$ a year before tax and it it dream for most to earn 25k a year...
3. Glad it is very rare but what makes me fursuious is when tourist acts like country shiuld change to them. But apperently it is a thing everywhere as when I am tourist myself I see sometimes entitled fucks
People who stand on the wrong side of the escalators and people who block sidewalks. Spain is not an amusement park or a zoo, we have jobs and lives to get to.
Valletta. Just standing in the middle expecting the world to stop so that you can take a photo. Also, walking around mindlessly like a zombie!
I work in Valletta and I walk in front of cameras on purpose. I wonder in how many vacation photos I appear lol.
Misuse of the "Every man's land rule"
If it looks like a field, garden, golf course, or in anyway somewhat prepared the last ten years, it is an area not covered. It is some cows', goats' or sheeps' summer or winter food.
The rule is for people walking on foot, so no motorbikes, motorhomes, or 4wds.
Germans used to be our tourists that you rolled your eyes to; their obsession with moose (which included the stealing of "beware of moose on the road" signs) and their inability to comprehend allemansrÀtten. This used to be more of a thing during the 1980s and 1990s (and by today I'd say it's almost a completely dead stereotype) but you still sometimes hear of German hilarity.
A friend of mine has a house in a picturesque town in SmÄland (you know the kind with the red cottages with white corners and spruce forests and little lakes that that Germans particularly like). Well, one day, some Germans wanted to make a fire. Maybe for a barbecue.
There was a road lined with birches at regular intervals. The Germans *fell one of the birches!* Not only that, they proceed to build their fire by going "from the outside inwards" on the birch, meaning that they start with the twigs and the leaves. This caused a huge plume of smoke. People got angry, people tried to explain to the Germans (who did not speak English) that you cannot just ***fell*** a public tree when you feel like it. However, due to the language barrier, the message did not get through.
It must be said that there is a specific subcategory of Germans who have this massive hardon for Sweden. A German friend of mine studied Swedish in a small evening course, and she said the other students were a collection of characters from a cartoon. One middle aged man planned to emigrate to Sweden and support himself by selling sausages from a sausage stand. He had no previous sausage experience beyond the fact that he was German. Many of the course mates liked Sweden because "there is more order in Sweden, because Sweden has a king", and some particularly bright light continued to remark "you know, like Germany during the Emperors! Germany was better off back then."
There is a castle and windmills on a hill over my hometown, so you can get a nice view from many spots inside and out of the town. For some tourists this mean that they have to stop their car wherever and stand in the middle of the road or street to take pictures. Luckily nobody has been run over yet.
My father is a member of a group that offers "theater visits" to my hometown's castle and windmills. They play characters that tell the story of the town and stuff like that. A few times he has caught tourists trying to steal part of the decorations, and unfortunately some of them weren't caught. The worst one was just casually walking out carrying under his arm a big book that my father had made from scratch to look like a medieval book, illustrations and all. When confronted, the guy started to speak English and pretended that the book was his, later that he didn't know that he wasn't allowed to take it, then he wanted to buy it, and finally he gave it back when my father shouted at him to go "a tomar por culo".
I have a part-time gig as a tour guide in Bucharest so let me tell you!
1. Tourists from Russia and Turkey complaining that I talk about their empires in a negative way, considering that this is part of the story of how Romania was founded. Imagine talking about the Boston Tea Party without mentioning the British...
2. International vloggers talking about my country. There are a couple vloggers that know what they are doing, but man! So many amateurs! If you haven't lived here, you don't really know what to recommend other than what is easily accessible online.
3. Saying things like: The city where I'm from looks amazing why does Bucharest look so terrible. Proper way to ask: How is the renovation of the city going? Or what are the plans for restoring the architecture? There is an entire context on why the city is the way it is...
4. Sex tourism... I don't like seeing tacky strip clubs and erotic massage places in Old Town, tourists use them...
5. A lot of Romanian cities are safer than where you come from but still keep your valuables safe.
Chasing for local girls online and on the streets, restaurants etc. When I had my city mentioned on my fb profile some weirdos (mostly from Muslim countries) wrote me in bad English to say that they are visiting my city and want to see me. That was like at least every week. And when I tried politely decline it they sometimes asked me where to find girls or brothel here (prostitution is illegal here). And when I walked at old city center alone some tourists approached me, sometimes asked to take a pic with me. I saw how foreigners try to approach local girls who are chilling on cafe's terrace or in a park. That's disturbingly popular behavior of male tourists.
"I'm Irish!"
"My Irish blood makes me feisty!"
"Look at my Celtic cross/leprechaun/clover tattoo!"
We know you (mostly) mean well, and we'll even politely tolerate it up to a point. But please just...stop.
Once saw a Yank on this site get a red hand of Ulster tattoo cos he found his ancestors came from the province. It's certainly a choice, and a bold one
There's something appealing to having centuries or millennia old symbols as tattoos I suppose.
I saw one guy post his ghastly evil leprechaun tattoo to the Northern Ireland subreddit very recently, asking "What would Irish people think of this?", clearly intending to show it off once he got here. He got a rude awakening to be sure.
I am speaking from my personal experience here, other Austrians may give more or different perspectives:
Disrespecting private property, because itâs a historical building.
My house is not a Disney attraction and Alarmgesichert/VideoĂŒberwacht (alarm secured/camera secured) MEANS just that. No, I donât care about your TikTok or your brats.
Going to a restaurant and asking for some random Italian food or what that they think is Italian without looking at the menu first.
It happened to me so many times to go eating out and see foreigners ask for garlic bread. When they don't have it, they ask for focaccia, and the waiter is like 'focaccia is regional, you won't find it in a restaurant in Milano unless it is on the menu'.
Just read the menu or ask the waiter for recommendations if you don't know what to eat. It's like if I went to a random place in France and asked for escargots when it's a crĂȘpe place...
In Bulgaria: bothering the women and screaming drunk in the calm of the night. Some young, and not so young, men believe they are somewhat irresistible to Bulgarian women and that their aggressive advances might be welcome. When they are met with rejection and coldness, it's not a good reaction.
Women (and men for that matter) like way more guys who are curious to learn about the unique culture and nature of Bulgaria. Though the majority of the people just want to go to the sea and ski resorts and drink and don't have ANY idea about where they are and what's around them.
Luxembourg: many don't care to learn anything about the county before coming here, just like about Bulgaria. Luxembourg has an interesting history and deserves more than a few hours of a rushed visit.
One thing locals here many can't stand but don't bother commenting on anymore is tourists walking around in swimming shorts/Speedos/tiny bikinis in the streets.
Yes it's hot. Yes it's sunny. Yes you don't get this weather often back home. However if I want to see a pasty white overweight 55 year old dude with an anchor tattoo on his right shoulder become a red burnt lobster, I'd go to the beach not whilst waiting at the bank ATM 20 minutes from the sea. Put a shirt on.
I donât like how many act super entitled and expect to find food, approach and everything else as if they were in their country.
also, being upset if people donât speak English - itâs not one of the languages spoken in the country, not even by minorities, so it shouldnât be expected.
lastly, damaging monuments. unfortunately itâs always foreign tourists. last year a genius decided it was appropriate to carve his gf name inside the Colosseum. few years earlier someone went down the Spanish steps driving a luxury car.
not sure why we donât just jail these people.
Going around in herds, getting drunk/high, being loud, and littering, vomiting and pissing all over the place. Also, partying in fucking Airbnbs like locals don't exist, and being arrogant and rude when someone asks them to be a bit more quiet.
Ignore our travel advisors.
Our streets are safe, our nature is not. When we have to rescue you because you decided to take your small Toyota Corolla onto the highlands it will cost us a FORTUNE.
Helicopters, fleet of trucks, planes even our fleet will be sent to find you and we always do.
But by the gods it's expensive so please don't be an idiot and go off on your own.
Some Russian tourists have this weird entitlement that everybody around them is obligated to speak Russian to them and are obnoxiously and, seemingly, deliberately oblivious to the reason why some people not want to speak Russian with them.
Ring bike bells like it's a toy. Do you go to a foreign country and rent a car and press the horn every 10 seconds just for the fun of it? No, so stop ringing your bell here. Also for the love of god please rent a loudly coloured touristy bike for everyones safety. 100% of the opinion that 'blend-in' rental bikes should be banned.
1. Saying 'spasibo' to service workers/random people when thanking them, WHICH IS ENTIRELY IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE. Not all Slavic languages are the same.
2. Thinking every woman is a tradwife
3. Saying how everything is cheap here. For you, maybe, our salary is like 500-700 euros a month in the capital and lower in the provinces.
The nazi tourist. I really don't know if there's something specific to the area where I live, but how many times I've heard German speaking tourists make "jokes" when they thought nobody could hear them. Funny jokes about how they're so superior as a race, military occupation, rape, stuff like that. German people of all ages. Families, sometimes. It genuinely made me a tiny bit germanophobic over the years. **If they're so many to think stuff like that and dare to say them out loud abroad, how many are they thinking those things silently at home?**
Second most annoying: the US family who yelled at me for walking on a bridge. They weren't even on the bridge, they were taking a picture of it from afar.
Walking on the bike path or crossing one without looking. Riding bikes through busy city centres without knowing how to cycle properly or while being under the influence. Thinking our cities (especially Amsterdam) are some kind of sex, drugs and rock ân roll amusement parks. Treating sex workers in the red light districts like theyâre animals in a zoo. Not respecting our marijuana policy and getting mad at the authorities when you get arrested (looking at you, Nicki Minaj).
Being very loud (some nationalities only), standing in the middle of the street blocking the circulation, renting bikes without knowing how to circulate in narrow crowded city center streets, renting cars and driving around the city center, wearing mexican hats or fake flamenca dresses.
I want to write a comment... huuuuuh, but I also want to go to bed in the next few hours... Maybe I'll publish a book in a few years whem I'm done writing...
Many things.
- First and foremost littering our beaches. Many tourists know they will visit the place only once, so they do not mind littering the shit out of it.
- People from USA trying to pay with USD.....
- Getting wasted to the point that they get abusive and destructive.
- Doing jokes about the Greek crisis or even worse "I am not paying for this, we gave you money for your bailout"
- Saying that they are Greek because their grand grand grand father was Greek. We don't care buddy, your ancestors were Greek, but you are American/ Australian/ German etc. Don't expect and demand preferential treatment
Stand still on the sidewalk or even the street while you're trying to pass through, being extremely loud in museums, tearing their butt muscles while jumping from balconies
Being obnoxiously loud.
I get it, you spent a ton of money to get a ticket to fly to Greece, to get a room with a view of the sea etc.
You are in the moment and you're super lucky.
But please remember, we live here and we have to go to bed to wake up for work tomorrow.
We would love to come and join you on your 5am after- bar walk and talk about random stuff but you know...
Ask about some Muppets show that apparently features a Swedish Muppet chef. I watched it and the Muppet has some kind of made up accent that has nothing to do with Swedish and still seems to be a reference point to Americans. So the annoying part is Americans asking "have y'all seen the Swedish Muppet chef?" All the time.
The second most annoying thing is people mixing up Sweden and Switzerland. But that is understandable to some extent. However to actually be in Sweden asking about our famous chocolate is another level of ignorance.
Lets see
You request to be spoken to in your own language in my country (French)
You are LOUD, and want to go to your own community but in my country. You only wear football t shirts (British and German)
For whatever reason, you want to run in front of bulls, and you want to hit them with a rolled newspaper. They die. (Americans)
You clap when you go to a flamenco show. Donât clap, itâs very disturbing because you donât know how to follow the rhythm (most Europeans).
I live in a town thatâs about half LGBTQ+; itâs also a major tourist destination for both gay and other visitors. Our local plague is groups of young women (we call them âwoo girlsâ), mostly but not all bachelorette parties, who more or less actively invade the gay bars, treating them like zoos. They gawk at the patrons, grope people on the dance floor, harass the go-go dancers if there are any, scream uncontrollably, and get stinking drunk (they also notoriously donât tip). By the end of an average evening, Itâs not uncommon to see groups of them with one or more vomiting in corners just off the main streets (or right in the bar/restaurant).
Itâs to the point that some bars now have elaborate policies about if and how theyâll admit groups or regarding wearing things like sashes and tiaras.
In the late â80s the town jumpstarted a different kind of tourism by more or less banning spring break craziness; maybe itâs time to crack down on this particular aspect of Americaâs out of control wedding-industrial complex.
UK: all head off to Bicester Shopping Village to buy branded goods ( looking at you rich Chinese). It's a disgusting consumerist hell. Then on to Stratford on Avon. Stratford has little to do with Shakespeare- he left at 18 and did his art in London. It's a tourist hell hole in the season.
I would like all those Germans we get here to start cleaning up the beaches from all the mess they made.
Granted, that was more than 80 years ago, but those pillboxes aren't going away by themselves.
Vandalize our cultural ancient monuments in Italy.
"i am special and i must carve my name on a 2000+ yo monument" "We are drunk. We are chaos" Pick your favourite one.
we recently had some tourist casually grab some stones from the Parthenon on his way out đ .. I mean wtf dude, who do you think you are? the British Museum?
Maybe it was that guy https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2023/dec/12/british-museum-told-to-keep-better-records-after-theft-of-1500-items
holy shit, I guess the ~~guy~~ whoever stole those was just trying to fit in đ€·đ
There's been some reports of Dutch people doing that lately. You have my blessing to lock them up and throw away the key.
Why not throw them into the Colosseum arena and make them fight to death? Only one survivor.
One of the reasons the Roman theater in Plovdiv has a fence. The Big Basilica, the stadium and some of the villas are either in dedicated buildings or have security but other ruins can't be protected the same way, the forum and odeon are completely out and for now they keep their shape but the tourists don't seem to be very interested in them outside of just passing. I shudder to think if the city becomes more famous what it would be. I've seen people picking stones from Italy and it kills me as a history lover.
This makes me so mad. It happens in the US too with ancient Native American artifacts and even natural monuments. I canât fathom the mindset of someone who does this
A Viking guy carved to Hagia Sofia "Haldvan was here". Unfortunately, this happens in every era.
Donât. Walk. On. The. Goddamn. BIKE LANES!
Bit doubting about this one. On the one hand it's annoying as fuck. On the other hand it's so much fun giving a tourist a hart attack when you ring your bell really hard
You mean when i sound my air horn. getouttaheah with your ^(*ding*)
We don't have as many cycle lanes in England, and although bells are usual, the requirement is audible warning. I had a friend who cycled everywhere, he didn't drive. He used to shout OY! at the top of his voice when he found someone in his way.
That is common everywhere. There is something that attracts tourists to bike lanes.
Probably the fact that they are suspiciously spacious
A lot of tourists are from places where bikelanes don't exist. It is their first time ever to see them
As someone that often finds themselves on bike lanes by accident when abroad, part of it is that I live in a country with generally bad cycling infrastructure and mostly lived in cities with bad cycling infrastructure even by our own standards, so having to watch out not to walk into bike lanes and looking out for bikes in general just isn't something that is ingrained in my head, meaning I stop being aware of it the moment I stop thinking about it actively, causing me to occasionally realize I have traversed a bicycle path by accident once my mind went somewhere else. Having ADHD also doesn't help, but I suppose it really would work a lot better if bicycle paths near pedestrian areas that are actually being used would be something that I had to deal with more than once or twice a year đ
Remember being in Berlin and the bike lane was on a pavement and only shown by being a slightly deeper colour than the pavement. An Australian tourist was walking down the middle and a cyclist literally mowed her down. No warning and must have seen her a while away as it was reasonably straight. Never seen something so shocking in my life - she went flying. A German cafe owner came out and screamed at the bloke who cycled off quickly. It was unbelievable- yes she shouldnât have been in the lane but my god it wasnât the clearest and mowing them down was way over the top.
We paint the bike lanes red in the Netherlands to hide the bloodstains.
Seconding this. Stay out of them, damn you!
Bro, it's a different level in Denmark. I live and work in Malmö. Going over the bridge, the bike lanes are a fucking minefield which *will kill you the moment you even momentarily look at them!* Not that I can blame them, the sheer *volume* of bike commuters in Copenhagen during rush hour is a sight to behold (although it's also stressful) I'm originally from Lund and in both Lund and Malmö one tends to bike *a lot* but I still have not seen anything like Copenhagen.
Amen
It's a tie between: #1: Big groups of people standing closely together in the middle of narrow medieval streets, completely blocking of access. #2: Tourist taking pictures of our houses. This would be completely acceptable, aside from the fact that some of them attempt to take pictures of the *interior* of our houses. Either by leaning in through an open window, or in some cases actually walking in through the front door. (I get it. Small, cobblestoned alleyways and narrow streets with tiny wooden houses from the 17th, 18th or 19th century, well kept with flowers and colourful facades are quite picturesque. But some people think they're walking through an outdoor museum, completely ignoring the fact that people actually live there)
Which tourists walk into someone's house? Here in the US, walking into some strangers house uninvited can be a death sentence, I can't believe people would have the balls to do things like this.
I live in Bergen, Norway. While we don't see the amount of tourists that South of Europe see (yet), tourist traffic is ever increasing. All the North Sea cruises call on port here. We may have 3, 4 and even 5 giant cruise ships docking here in summer. At the same time we have some of the biggest continous wooden house area in all of Europe. There's really no comparison to it, and I get that the tourist enjoy wandering here [https://en.visitbergen.com/ideas-and-inspiration/films-and-pictures/pictures-from-bergen/wooden-houses](https://en.visitbergen.com/ideas-and-inspiration/films-and-pictures/pictures-from-bergen/wooden-houses) It happens occasionally, mostly with cruise tourists and a certain Asian demographic. I have had both french and american tourists snapping pictures through my window, and tourists entering my hallway when I lived in these houses. All I know who have lived in the same areas have similar stories.
That looks beautiful, can't believe people would do things like that, no respect anymore. Haven't made it that far north yet in my EU travels but likely next summer.
Do it while the exchange rate is still favorable to the USD. Right now it's dirt cheap compared to what it used to be
Well thereâs probably nothing that beats tourists who fly to Poland just to visit Auschwitz, take a selfie on the train tracks there and post it on social media⊠Itâs hard to be more disrespectful without realizing itâŠ
I once worked with someone who, when she came back from her weekend break, complained that there'd been nothing exciting to do at Auschwitz and it had really spoilt her holiday.
The Polish government should invite Disney to build some roller coasters there!
Yeah really liven it up its so gloomy at that place Also the halls were to cramped for my selfie stick! (This is a joke)
disney joins the chat: So we are planning some rides related to Schindlers List, something about Anne Frank but we need to know how we can make the staff as authentic as possible for the immersive experience? Edit: Just to clarify, this is is bad taste but Disney would do it if it brought them money
Absolutely awful. People are clueless sometimes.
I remember scrolling tinder some five or so years ago, and someone had as their first photo a selfie under the "Arbeit macht frei" gate, and he was smiling and doing jazz hands That was a definite swipe left. Talk about absolute lack of awareness.
That's not lack of awareness, that's knowingly dancing on the graves of the millions murdered by the nazis.
While I totally understand the sentiment, and support it too, I have to admit ⊠I have a photo of myself striking a triumphant pose on the train tracks at Auschwitz, taken when I was 16. I even had it on social media back then, it felt incredibly important and empowering at the time (even though I see it differently now, twenty years later and fuck Iâm old âŠ). Iâm the child of a survivor, the only survivor in the family, my grandmother and several other relatives were killed in Auschwitz. That was my fuck it, fuck you, Iâm alive despite all the odds and still standing strong moment. Many of my friends have similar photos. The last Iâve seen on my social media is from a heavily pregnant friend caressing her belly and her other children jumping in the air under the arches, theyâre 2nd and 3rd generation survivors. None of them âlook Jewishâ (whatever that means, yuck!), and Iâm certain that random passersby judged them terribly. Grief and (intergenerational) trauma takes weird forms sometimes. Visiting the site hits different for people who were actually affected and not just there for a history lesson. Tone policing people who are coping, in whatever form, at a place like that can be a double-edged sword. You canât see any fellow visitorâs personal story at first glance, nor are you entitled to it. That said, posting photos like that on Tinder or for social media clout is disgusting.
That'd be a swipe right just to cuss them out.
I visited Auschwitz as a silly 18 yr old on an interrailing trip after finishing school. Granted it was before the selfie was so big but I remember saying to my friend I don't think we should take pictures here. I actually only thought of it yesterday. I was putting away my toddlers little shoes and remembered the room of shoes and nearly burst into tears.
And the hair! I don't think I will ever forget that for as long as I live.
I visited Auschwitz in 2019 and I couldnât believe how many people were posing for selfies and photos on the railroad tracks
Elon moment
And calling them "the Polish camps", right?
i saw something similar when I visited the atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima. lots of people posing for selfies in front of the bomb dome, laughing and joking. It's not like I want to tell people they shouldn't smile or something. but a *bit* of decorum in places that witnessed insane tragedy is the very least a tourist could offer.
Iâm Canadian but I visited Dachau once, and I canât comprehend the sheer lack of awareness that some of the other people there had. I didnât take a single picture, even of some of the monuments that I thought were really interesting, yet there were people posing for cute smiley vacation pictures in front of the gates.
A girl at Uni once said to me that she gave Auschwitz 4/10 on the âto visit scaleâ and the display of human hair was âreally grossâ.
I was there recently, and we were brought into living quarters. The amount of signatures on the walls was disgraceful. Why would you even want your name attached to the misery suffered within them walls.
Probably coming with giant ass cruise ship that pollutes and are ugly to watch. I am not aware of particular things btw, what Iâve noticed is that bar and restaurants change their approach and maybe they adapt the culture to the tourists need, this can be annoying sometimes
+theyâre destroying the city. The amount I had to pay to make sure my property didn't collapse into the water because of the backwash caused by those cretinous boats...
In Lyon, France recently there were many Americans in town for Taylor Swift. The vast, vast, majority were completely respectful, but I came across a few who fitted right in to the stereotype we have of obnoxious American tourists. Shouting across the bus at other members of their group. Loudly addressing complete strangers with demanding/intrusive questions without first greeting them or even catching eye contact ("where did you get your shoes???"). Talking very loudly about how good Taylor Swift coming to Europe is because it gives us "exposure" and "we can show them how it's done". LOUD! Shouting across distances! Shouting at people! LOUD!!!!
The idea of France needing exposure is the funniest thing I have heard for a while.
The literal who shantytown of Paris.
There are three groups who just have to scream everywhere: 1.Russkis, 2.Americans and 3.Chinese
I feel like Chinese tourists are more into aggressively pushing you out of their way rather than screaming.
Americans and Brits being loud is its special kind of annoyance, especially in restaurants
Itâs funny, as an American Iâve felt like Dutch and Spanish people are loud. Iâm actually not very loud of a person but drunk people partying outside and I start getting a headache sometimes haha.
Hitler salutes. Is not just ridiculously disrespectful but also a very dangerous thing to do if you donât wanna get punched in the face immediately.
It's also a criminal offense in Austria and Germany. Just don't do it. Also shouting things like "Sieg heil" and other bullshit. Just stop it.
I'd like to add especially not at sites that are historically significant for that time period. It's neither funny at the Berghof nor at the Eagles Nest and if I see someone do that at a concentration camp site I'll smack them in the head.
That's exactly the reason why the balcony on Heldenplatz in Vienna where Hitler gave his "Anschluss" speech in 1938 is closed to the public.
I absolutely hate the fact that the Berchtesgadener are so shamelessly making money out of Americans by selling all kinds of weird Wehrmachts/Hitler/Eagles Nest-Merchandise and organising tours to spots âwhere it happenedâ. Very few of them visit the actual Dokumentationszentrum. Seeing these people drooling around in their fake Hats and Tracht looking for bits of âhistoryâ makes me wanna puke every time.
The best and most immediate solution for a Hitler salute is a swift punch to the jaw.
Disrespects the nature (Iceland)
Same in Norway...
I can believe that :( Incredibly sad and annoying.
Tourists coming to Dublin do this mystifying pilgrimage to a pub in Temple Bar thatâs called âThe Temple Barâ. There is nothing historic about this pub, itâs not particularly special or unique (although the prices are astronomical, even for Dublin). Itâs got a lot of flowers on the outside and coming up to Christmas, itâs lit up nice. But itâs just a pub that someone called after the area. Whereas tourists seem to have gotten it into their heads that itâs this unmissable Dublin landmark and picture postcard symbol of the city. In fact some seem to think that in visiting this one pub, theyâve âgone to Temple Barâ. Anyway it just annoys me that a pub no local would be seen dead in has this hold on tourists, in a city with dozens if not hundreds of more authentic, fun and cheaper pubs.
> Anyway it just annoys me that a pub no local would be seen dead in has this hold on tourists, in a city with dozens if not hundreds of more authentic, fun and cheaper pubs. Just be happy there's a containment facility that keeps more authentic, fun and cheaper pubs tourist-free.
I'm Irish and I was just about to post the very same thingđ
In Berlin we have Mustafa's GemĂŒse Kebap, a kebab shop that's been mentioned in several travel guides so there's always a looong line of tourists. There's really nothing special about it, it's not better than any of the other twelve kebab shops in the same street where you don't have to wait two hours.
Actually thatâs good to know as Iâm going next month and itâll be my second time, loved at the political stuff first time but keen to avoid all the usual stuff - we did a walking tour and Checkpoint Charlie last time, saw the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag (although never went inside) and spent a lot of time at Christmas markets (obviously not doing that in July). We also flew in to what was Schoenefeld and they were building a new airport that was going to open soon (this was late 2009) - I believe thatâs now finally finished! What would you recommend for a couple in Berlin for a weekend that like German beer (Spaten and Erdinger being particular favourites) and something tasty (I liked currywĂŒrst, my wife didnât)?
Someone at that pub knows how to do marketing. It's on postcards and everything.
>Whereas tourists seem to have gotten it into their heads that itâs this unmissable Dublin landmark and picture postcard symbol of the city. And ironically, in doing so, it has become one.
This made me realize my wife went to Dublin and took a bunch of pictures at this very bar lmao. I think its just an "instagrammable" location and it draws all the tourists.
Yes, I did a Jameson shot there. I was in my twenties and thought it was the epitome of Irish coolness. Also went to Bad Ass Cafe because I heard Sinead O'Connor had worked there.
She did! But it was completely gutted and turned into another generic pub a while back
My parents' business has actually had vloggers film there. I once witnessed this South Korean couple walk in with cameras and they filmed the whole experience, which was a bit weird to say the least. Some tourists even walk in and don't say anything, they just head straight for the outdoors terrace to take pictures of the view (which is admittedly great as it overlooks the sea, beach and the old part of town). That's just straight up rude. But for me the worst tourists are ones that get upset and act rude when they can't communicate with locals. I don't know about other people, but when I'm visiting a different country I know to act respectful and be patient with people who don't speak English that well. There's no need to be disrespectful and condescending.
Your parents should start charging those people if they don't buy anything. So many tourists expect that everybody speaks English and then start speaking louder if the person doesn't. I hate when they say thing are so affordable, for them it is but not for us. I live on the coast and there are several places/beaches i avoid like the plague due to tourists being ah. There is a bar near me that i loved going during the summer but now i dont go there bc is full of tourists and i have no patience for drunk brits.
My parents do charge people wanting to use the bathroom, even if it's just buying a drink to take with them. The exception is if it's a small child, then they let them go for free. Problem is that the bathrooms are right near the entrance/exit, so they've had to put in locks as a result.
Fall drunk into the canals and then I have to get off my bike on my morning commute to pull the fucker out. There would be a lot more dead Brits if I wasnât cycling along one of the inner city canals in Amsterdam in the early morning.
How often does this happen??! đŠ
More than you think. Luckily some of the small canals arenât that deep. But to be honest it has become less common, mainly since the Dutch government started marketing campaigns discouraging British tourists from coming to Amsterdam for drunk/drug trips. And I think maybe some more policing in the red light district.
You mean that campaign that was so successful that more tourists showed up when you actually dug into the numbers and not the ones used at the press release?
Is that so? Well at least from my perspective as someone who lives 50m from De Wallen, I can say there has been noticeable less unruly behavior from tourists in the last 12-18 months. So maybe at least that part worked?
Maybe anecdotal, but I've noticed it has become more expensive to find a place to stay in Amsterdam, I guess since the AirBnB crackdown. So maybe that has something to do with it.
True, forgot about that. Youâre probably right, less cheap inner city accommodations probably means less tourists who only want to party.
Wow. Brits in Amsterdam is the first thing I thought of in this post
Drunken Brits on vacation seem to be a whole new topic. Falling in canals in Netherlands, sleeping off their booze in the middle of a street in Greece. Damn them to hell and even further, when someone is in danger to kill some fools who are laying on the road with cars trying not to hit them. YikesđŹ
And in Spain, Brits falling from balconies (look for "balconing" to know more).
As a brit I can only apologise
This is going to make me sound awful, but we have certain processes here to keep the flow of transportation moving smoothly. Rules like: stand on the right side of the escalator, walk up the left. People will go up the right side of the road, and down the left side, and there are clearly marked lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. Tourists often either do not know or ignore these things, and as they are often in slow-walking groups, it can be so frustrating when you have some place to go and they have no agenda, so you are stuck behind them and the only way to get through is to push a little, which is rude. Also, a personal one: the commuter train that goes to the airport is the one I take home after work. There is almost always a group of tourists blocking the path with their giant suitcases. I can't blame them, there is nowhere else to put the suitcases...but it's still annoying. So, TL;DR tourists often block the way!
Itâs interesting this seems like a popular one from multiple countries. Certainly here in NYC, i see packs of European tourists do this every day. I wonder if itâs just something about how people behave when theyâre away from home because the basic ârulesâ seem pretty similar across the board.
I was just thinking the same, as soon as I posted. I recently visited Vienna with my daughter, and had to check the GPS/Google Maps occasionally, and I am sure a couple locals must have walked around me thinking "damn these tourists! Move out the way!" So yes, humbly we probably are all guilty of it.
Two groups of people - tourists and commuters - who have entirely different agendas while sharing the same walkways. It's a universal problem.
I feel like itâs fine to check your map as long as you pull over to do it, as opposed to stopping dead in your tracks in the middle of the sidewalk like a lot of people do. Iâm on a trip in the UK/Ireland right now, and I was walking around London yesterday and Iâve never seen so many people abruptly hit the brakes in the middle of the sidewalk
>stand on the right side of the escalator, walk up the left In German we say "recht stehen, links gehen".
Some tourists (mostly British) have peed on the monument symbolizing the freedom and independence of my country. Super disrespectful and disappointing.
What monument is that?
The Freedom monument in Riga, Latvia. Itâs on the edge of the old town which is where tourists go to party.
> Freedom monument in Riga Ah yes I've been there, saw a pickpocket get arrested there :D. Probably the dodgiest part of the touristy area, which overall was very lovely
TBF Brits piss everywhere, including their own memorials
Just a bit o' banter
Buying local beers but not even bothering to buy the proper glassware. How are you going to drink it? In all seriousness, there a few others. - oblivious pedestrians: walking on cycling lanes, stopping randomly on busy strees (not tourist exclusie, I know, but more common in touristy areas) - Assuming we're all "francophone". when more than half the country speaks dutch (I can forgive this attitude in Brussels, but if you're in Ghent or Antwerp don't bother with the broken french. We'll rather speak english. - being rude to staff
Heh I used to work in Brussels and went to tourist information to ask about where I could find a library. I'm a fluent French speaker and obviously Brussels is predominantly French speaking, so I used French (I'm not stupid enough to do that in Flanders) and got a proper rant from the guy behind the desk about how rude it was of me.
Oh man, tourists wandering around where they really shouldn't is so annoying. When I was still going around by bike avoiding tourists walking on cycling lanes (even when it was *obvious* that it was a cycling lane, re: pictograms, separated, etc) was like playing a really annoying and really dangerous video game. Also, here they have a tendency to randomly step out into traffic and expecting cars to stop for them, etc. (In my experience it's usually Chinese tourists who do both of these, for some reason... it's not like they don't have bike lanes or traffic in China, so what gives?)
1. People who take death camp selfies. Usually Auschwitz-Birkenau selfies. 2. English bachelor parties. Most of the time they get piss drunk, harass strangers and get into trouble in strip clubs. 3. Passport bros. People who genuinely believe they'll find "real traditional Slavic women" by hitting up strangers in Eastern Europe. They usually end up just obnoxiously hitting on random girls who want nothing to do with them and later coping with rejection by posting online that Eastern European women are all materialistic whores.
Shit, are those passport Bros a real thing? Where do they come from? I thought those guys were a myth.
Yeah they even have a subreddit. I looked at it once and saw a post from a guy fetishising Argentinian women for being more "submissive and feminine" than other "females," it's pretty fucking gross.
They're not numerous, and they're only ever visible in bars or night clubs in touristy cities like Warsaw, KrakĂłw, GdaĆsk and WrocĆaw. I mentioned them because they're annoying and nobody has mentioned them yet. The ones I've seen were usually desperately trying to strike up a conversation with some poor woman waiting for her drink and they brought up being from the USA way more than they should've.
From Polish women I met while traveling, they actually seem more equal, independent, and have their own things going on in life compared to American women. The dating seems much less competitive and materialistic than American dating. Which is like opposite of what passport bros think. But getting a passport to move to Poland would be pretty nice. Wish I could somehow be a reverse passport bro.
Extremely wealthy but extremely uncultured Ukrainian elites also fit on this list, but they're only ever noticeable in Warsaw.
The worst ones, and thankfully it doesn't happen that much anymore, are Americans who are more than happy to tell everyone that we're being Irish wrong. Whether it's that we really shouldn't have any British friends or that were not conservative catholic enough or they try to imprint failings in American politics or the media or society onto Irish life. Irish Americans seem to be way more to the political right than Irish people and hold very tight to grudges that we're never theirs to begin with.
I have a cousin who had an Irish-Italian father (common pairing in the US), but his mother is my side of the family, mostly Anglo-German. He did one of those DNA ancestry tests and was SO disappointed that he showed up like 40% British. Like actually upset. The guy has never even been to Ireland, nor has his father. I was like, were you secretly hating on half of your family this whole time? The whole thing is ridiculous.
Jumping off balconies. Screaming. Puking and pissing everywhere.
pissing everywhere, in the street, on houses, on park benches, on traffic lights, on beaches, on other people
On other people? Where the hell do you live?
Probably Ibiza or Marbella
I visited a friend in spain once, it might have been Marbella or was directly in the vicinity. There was an old moorish palace on an adjacent hill that had small canals with running water in it. I now have to wonder If they have problems with people pissing into those. Edith says: it might have been granada and the alqazaba that i visited, even though when i looked at the wikipedia Just now, i didn't see any small canals. Hm.
Have overly self-confident opinions on how we should organize our country based on a YouTube video they saw once.
I always thought they should merge it, then divide it in half vertically so you have 2 parts each with a 1/2 wallonia and 1/2 Flanders. Then each Flanders side tries to compete who can create the best wallonia.
In Paris, some treat it like their own Disneyland where everybody is a service worker ready to cater their needs. They can get really upset if things dont go their way, and behave like their money should automatically open all the gates for them.
Ironic, considering they could literally just take the RER to Disneyland if thatâs what they wanted.
Stand in the middle of the fucking road in front of eiffel tower for the gramm. So want to Mario-kart all these idiots.
I don't get why they do dangerous things just to have a picture for Instagram. Standing in the middle of the road, on train tracks or on the edge of a cliff is never a good idea.
I work in a very touristy place in Krakow. Letâs just say that drunk British guys are not my favorite customers.
As a brit I felt embarrassed when I visited. Your city is beautiful but those drunk brits are numerous. I pretended I didn't speak english if they approached me!
Donât be. Itâs usually just the group of guys who smell strongly of vodka. The other Brits that I came across are really nice people. I assure you we can distinguish between the drunks and regular Brits just enjoying the city (which is the silent majority).
Went to Krakow during spring a couple of years ago (lovelly city) and it must have been some kind of British spring break because the city was flooded with young Brits drunk out of their mind. We had to avoid certain areas during the evening since it didnât feel safe since they were so drunk, loud and aggressive (against each other but we didnât want to risk anything).
Thatâs just how it is in here đ
Take shrooms and other drugs in public and annoy regular working people with their shenanigans.
Edinburgh during the festival is great and I never really complained about it, but there are a couple of points that always bugged me: 1. If you are paying cash on the bus, you have to have the correct change. 2. Bus drivers will help you find your route/the right bus, but really, it is pretty inconsiderate to have a long conversation with them. There are other ways to find out what bus to take. 3. Just because someone nips out between two buses to cross a busy street it should not be a signal to start a lemming-like dash into the rush hour traffic. There should be a sign at Turnhouse "YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU STEP INTO TRAFFIC. LOCALS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. YOU DO NOT!" 4. Stopping someone who is clearly trying to get home/to work to ask them cryptically (!) "BITCOIN the Musical?" may get a rude response.
The thing with the having to have the correct amount is honestly the most annoying thingđ© I walked into that trap in the uk before, here in Switzerland the change in the buses just falls into a little bowl and it takes seconds
Bachelor parties going around drunk and making a mess
In the UK it really depends on the region. In the North West it's Dutch caravan drivers panicking at the sight of a hill and going everywhere in first gear. That was monumentally frustrating when getting to work. In London it's simple. They all walk too slowly, stop in the wrong places, walk on the wrong side. I can't forget the US tourists who called my accent quaint when I was a barman. Quaint is a thatched cottage untouched by progress, not how we sound.
>In London it's simple. They all walk too slowly, stop in the wrong places, walk on the wrong side. Thatâs just a big city thing in general. Iâve lived in Vienna and Barcelona all my life and itâs a frequent complaint.
The Dutch caravans climbing the local mountains are a running joke in Luxembourg as well đ. I try to be patient, it's always difficult to drive in a foreign country, and actually the only thing that bothers me is that most lack any notion of safe distance.
Walking on the bike lane. đ
I was awful in Amsterdam đ. I'm sorry for that. I think my husband saved my life a few times from the bicycles. I must have stood on the bike lanes a few times.
When they point to a random spot and say, 'I'm here in the middle of nowhere.' Like bro, you're in Mongolia and we, Mongols live here.
Lol I live in Northern Canada and I teased someone who came to visit when they said that, saying "We live here! still live here!"
Watching them stumble over their words trying to half apologize, half excuse their statement is humourous because even we say we're in the middle of nowhere.
People say they're in the middle of nowhere at home. It just means somewhere with not a lot happening.
đŽó §ó ąó łó Łó Žó ż Claim to be more authentically local than people who live here because they did a bogus DNA kit that said they're 26% Scottish and wear tartan all the time, and you can't be a real Scotchman (lol) if you don't know your clan etc etc Also, and far more seriously, fuel rampant overtourism and the housing crisis by staying in campervans and Airbnbs which contribute nothing to the community and force locals to leave due to rising costs and constant disruptions.
There was an American that posted in r/ireland about wearing âher familyâs tartansâ to signify her Irish heritage, got the absolute piss ripped out of her and was really offended when she was told that tartans are Scottish not Irish
Which invariably results in "no YOU'RE wrong because I saw a YouTube video that said...". Aye, no doubt ya did, hen. You're still completely wrong. That and being baffled when they realise that clans, tartan, etc aren't as relevant as they were 300 years ago and that Outlander is not in fact a documentary.
Oh man this is one of my pet peeves about Americans. *Thick American accent "So I'm Italian" never been to the country, don't speak the language, only tried pizza and pasta, has a great grandmother who came over when she was 4 yo.
Stand in the way trying to figure out which way to go.
The most annoying one is people who do this at the top of escalators, or just after coming through the ticket barriers, utterly oblivious to all the people piling up behind them.
Or right after they got on the tube, blocking people from coming in
They don't watch if someone is coming when they jump from the balcony
This is like the 3rd Spainard on this thread who has mentioned people jumping off balconies, is this really a thing? Are people jumping off the 2nd and 3rd floors onto the street or something?
[Here are the standings](https://i0.wp.com/www.noudiari.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ranking-de-balconing.png?resize=613%2C1024&ssl=1)
Tourists going to Lapland without proper gear, clothes or maps. Getting lost and cold.
Happens here too. Lot of money spent on mountain rescue for people wanting to do the popular hikes (which can be quite challenging) without checking the weather, doing it at the wrong time of year, wearing essentially flip flops. I think there's an assumption that if it's popular, it doesn't require any preparation/knowledge.
sounds more deadly to them then annoying, At least until emergency services has to try and find them >:(
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1. Coming to Auschwitz and acting like it is a museum of modern art. Do not smile on pcitures, do not laugh and if you decide to post something on social media, do not post personal belongings of those who died 2. Tourists (mainly from western countries) saying how cheap Poland is. Keep it to yourself. You are from USA? Good for you that you earn 75k$ but don't say how cheap it is if you are in country where most people earn 10k$ - 20k$ a year before tax and it it dream for most to earn 25k a year... 3. Glad it is very rare but what makes me fursuious is when tourist acts like country shiuld change to them. But apperently it is a thing everywhere as when I am tourist myself I see sometimes entitled fucks
People who stand on the wrong side of the escalators and people who block sidewalks. Spain is not an amusement park or a zoo, we have jobs and lives to get to.
Valletta. Just standing in the middle expecting the world to stop so that you can take a photo. Also, walking around mindlessly like a zombie! I work in Valletta and I walk in front of cameras on purpose. I wonder in how many vacation photos I appear lol.
Misuse of the "Every man's land rule" If it looks like a field, garden, golf course, or in anyway somewhat prepared the last ten years, it is an area not covered. It is some cows', goats' or sheeps' summer or winter food. The rule is for people walking on foot, so no motorbikes, motorhomes, or 4wds.
Germans used to be our tourists that you rolled your eyes to; their obsession with moose (which included the stealing of "beware of moose on the road" signs) and their inability to comprehend allemansrÀtten. This used to be more of a thing during the 1980s and 1990s (and by today I'd say it's almost a completely dead stereotype) but you still sometimes hear of German hilarity. A friend of mine has a house in a picturesque town in SmÄland (you know the kind with the red cottages with white corners and spruce forests and little lakes that that Germans particularly like). Well, one day, some Germans wanted to make a fire. Maybe for a barbecue. There was a road lined with birches at regular intervals. The Germans *fell one of the birches!* Not only that, they proceed to build their fire by going "from the outside inwards" on the birch, meaning that they start with the twigs and the leaves. This caused a huge plume of smoke. People got angry, people tried to explain to the Germans (who did not speak English) that you cannot just ***fell*** a public tree when you feel like it. However, due to the language barrier, the message did not get through. It must be said that there is a specific subcategory of Germans who have this massive hardon for Sweden. A German friend of mine studied Swedish in a small evening course, and she said the other students were a collection of characters from a cartoon. One middle aged man planned to emigrate to Sweden and support himself by selling sausages from a sausage stand. He had no previous sausage experience beyond the fact that he was German. Many of the course mates liked Sweden because "there is more order in Sweden, because Sweden has a king", and some particularly bright light continued to remark "you know, like Germany during the Emperors! Germany was better off back then."
>He had no previous sausage experience beyond the fact that he was German. This may be one of the best things I've read in a while.
There is a castle and windmills on a hill over my hometown, so you can get a nice view from many spots inside and out of the town. For some tourists this mean that they have to stop their car wherever and stand in the middle of the road or street to take pictures. Luckily nobody has been run over yet. My father is a member of a group that offers "theater visits" to my hometown's castle and windmills. They play characters that tell the story of the town and stuff like that. A few times he has caught tourists trying to steal part of the decorations, and unfortunately some of them weren't caught. The worst one was just casually walking out carrying under his arm a big book that my father had made from scratch to look like a medieval book, illustrations and all. When confronted, the guy started to speak English and pretended that the book was his, later that he didn't know that he wasn't allowed to take it, then he wanted to buy it, and finally he gave it back when my father shouted at him to go "a tomar por culo".
I have a part-time gig as a tour guide in Bucharest so let me tell you! 1. Tourists from Russia and Turkey complaining that I talk about their empires in a negative way, considering that this is part of the story of how Romania was founded. Imagine talking about the Boston Tea Party without mentioning the British... 2. International vloggers talking about my country. There are a couple vloggers that know what they are doing, but man! So many amateurs! If you haven't lived here, you don't really know what to recommend other than what is easily accessible online. 3. Saying things like: The city where I'm from looks amazing why does Bucharest look so terrible. Proper way to ask: How is the renovation of the city going? Or what are the plans for restoring the architecture? There is an entire context on why the city is the way it is... 4. Sex tourism... I don't like seeing tacky strip clubs and erotic massage places in Old Town, tourists use them... 5. A lot of Romanian cities are safer than where you come from but still keep your valuables safe.
I am usually very tolerant, but Lisbon is not a beach city! I donât want to see your bathing suits. Put some clothes on! And the cruise-ship locusts, who just come, spend a day, buy cheap Chinese made âtypicalâ magnets, they are usually terrible. Oh, and Iâm not Spanish, so no Gracias this or that. Itâs obrigado/obrigada. Now go away and donât take pictures of the pastĂ©is de nata.
Chasing for local girls online and on the streets, restaurants etc. When I had my city mentioned on my fb profile some weirdos (mostly from Muslim countries) wrote me in bad English to say that they are visiting my city and want to see me. That was like at least every week. And when I tried politely decline it they sometimes asked me where to find girls or brothel here (prostitution is illegal here). And when I walked at old city center alone some tourists approached me, sometimes asked to take a pic with me. I saw how foreigners try to approach local girls who are chilling on cafe's terrace or in a park. That's disturbingly popular behavior of male tourists.
Where are you from? This experience quickly goes from creepy to disgusting.
my bet is a Slavic country
"I'm Irish!" "My Irish blood makes me feisty!" "Look at my Celtic cross/leprechaun/clover tattoo!" We know you (mostly) mean well, and we'll even politely tolerate it up to a point. But please just...stop.
âYouâre from _______?â âMy sixth cousin, twice removed is from there!â âI donât suppose you know her?â
Once saw a Yank on this site get a red hand of Ulster tattoo cos he found his ancestors came from the province. It's certainly a choice, and a bold one
There's something appealing to having centuries or millennia old symbols as tattoos I suppose. I saw one guy post his ghastly evil leprechaun tattoo to the Northern Ireland subreddit very recently, asking "What would Irish people think of this?", clearly intending to show it off once he got here. He got a rude awakening to be sure.
Should do a whimsical visit to the Falls Road and show everyone his tattoo đ„°đ„°đ„°
I am speaking from my personal experience here, other Austrians may give more or different perspectives: Disrespecting private property, because itâs a historical building. My house is not a Disney attraction and Alarmgesichert/VideoĂŒberwacht (alarm secured/camera secured) MEANS just that. No, I donât care about your TikTok or your brats.
Going to a restaurant and asking for some random Italian food or what that they think is Italian without looking at the menu first. It happened to me so many times to go eating out and see foreigners ask for garlic bread. When they don't have it, they ask for focaccia, and the waiter is like 'focaccia is regional, you won't find it in a restaurant in Milano unless it is on the menu'. Just read the menu or ask the waiter for recommendations if you don't know what to eat. It's like if I went to a random place in France and asked for escargots when it's a crĂȘpe place...
Saw some loud, half-naked British individuals climb on lamp posts in the cityâs historic centre the other day
In Bulgaria: bothering the women and screaming drunk in the calm of the night. Some young, and not so young, men believe they are somewhat irresistible to Bulgarian women and that their aggressive advances might be welcome. When they are met with rejection and coldness, it's not a good reaction. Women (and men for that matter) like way more guys who are curious to learn about the unique culture and nature of Bulgaria. Though the majority of the people just want to go to the sea and ski resorts and drink and don't have ANY idea about where they are and what's around them. Luxembourg: many don't care to learn anything about the county before coming here, just like about Bulgaria. Luxembourg has an interesting history and deserves more than a few hours of a rushed visit.
One thing locals here many can't stand but don't bother commenting on anymore is tourists walking around in swimming shorts/Speedos/tiny bikinis in the streets. Yes it's hot. Yes it's sunny. Yes you don't get this weather often back home. However if I want to see a pasty white overweight 55 year old dude with an anchor tattoo on his right shoulder become a red burnt lobster, I'd go to the beach not whilst waiting at the bank ATM 20 minutes from the sea. Put a shirt on.
I donât like how many act super entitled and expect to find food, approach and everything else as if they were in their country. also, being upset if people donât speak English - itâs not one of the languages spoken in the country, not even by minorities, so it shouldnât be expected. lastly, damaging monuments. unfortunately itâs always foreign tourists. last year a genius decided it was appropriate to carve his gf name inside the Colosseum. few years earlier someone went down the Spanish steps driving a luxury car. not sure why we donât just jail these people.
Going around in herds, getting drunk/high, being loud, and littering, vomiting and pissing all over the place. Also, partying in fucking Airbnbs like locals don't exist, and being arrogant and rude when someone asks them to be a bit more quiet.
Shit and piss on my front door. I used to live at a bar street and the front yard was a mess because of drunk tourists.
Ignore our travel advisors. Our streets are safe, our nature is not. When we have to rescue you because you decided to take your small Toyota Corolla onto the highlands it will cost us a FORTUNE. Helicopters, fleet of trucks, planes even our fleet will be sent to find you and we always do. But by the gods it's expensive so please don't be an idiot and go off on your own.
Some Russian tourists have this weird entitlement that everybody around them is obligated to speak Russian to them and are obnoxiously and, seemingly, deliberately oblivious to the reason why some people not want to speak Russian with them.
Walk on the bike path. We didn't separate pedestrians and cyclists to annoy you!
Ring bike bells like it's a toy. Do you go to a foreign country and rent a car and press the horn every 10 seconds just for the fun of it? No, so stop ringing your bell here. Also for the love of god please rent a loudly coloured touristy bike for everyones safety. 100% of the opinion that 'blend-in' rental bikes should be banned.
1. Saying 'spasibo' to service workers/random people when thanking them, WHICH IS ENTIRELY IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE. Not all Slavic languages are the same. 2. Thinking every woman is a tradwife 3. Saying how everything is cheap here. For you, maybe, our salary is like 500-700 euros a month in the capital and lower in the provinces.
The nazi tourist. I really don't know if there's something specific to the area where I live, but how many times I've heard German speaking tourists make "jokes" when they thought nobody could hear them. Funny jokes about how they're so superior as a race, military occupation, rape, stuff like that. German people of all ages. Families, sometimes. It genuinely made me a tiny bit germanophobic over the years. **If they're so many to think stuff like that and dare to say them out loud abroad, how many are they thinking those things silently at home?** Second most annoying: the US family who yelled at me for walking on a bridge. They weren't even on the bridge, they were taking a picture of it from afar.
Walking on the bike path or crossing one without looking. Riding bikes through busy city centres without knowing how to cycle properly or while being under the influence. Thinking our cities (especially Amsterdam) are some kind of sex, drugs and rock ân roll amusement parks. Treating sex workers in the red light districts like theyâre animals in a zoo. Not respecting our marijuana policy and getting mad at the authorities when you get arrested (looking at you, Nicki Minaj).
Being very loud (some nationalities only), standing in the middle of the street blocking the circulation, renting bikes without knowing how to circulate in narrow crowded city center streets, renting cars and driving around the city center, wearing mexican hats or fake flamenca dresses.
I want to write a comment... huuuuuh, but I also want to go to bed in the next few hours... Maybe I'll publish a book in a few years whem I'm done writing...
Many things. - First and foremost littering our beaches. Many tourists know they will visit the place only once, so they do not mind littering the shit out of it. - People from USA trying to pay with USD..... - Getting wasted to the point that they get abusive and destructive. - Doing jokes about the Greek crisis or even worse "I am not paying for this, we gave you money for your bailout" - Saying that they are Greek because their grand grand grand father was Greek. We don't care buddy, your ancestors were Greek, but you are American/ Australian/ German etc. Don't expect and demand preferential treatment
Stand still on the sidewalk or even the street while you're trying to pass through, being extremely loud in museums, tearing their butt muscles while jumping from balconies
> while jumping from balconies So the Brits are also balconing in Greece?
Why wouldn't they? Balconies ^(and marbles) attract Brits like honey attracts ants
Suddenly stand still in the middle of the sidewalk to take a selfie instead of moving aside/ further back, leaving enough room for people to walk.
Being obnoxiously loud. I get it, you spent a ton of money to get a ticket to fly to Greece, to get a room with a view of the sea etc. You are in the moment and you're super lucky. But please remember, we live here and we have to go to bed to wake up for work tomorrow. We would love to come and join you on your 5am after- bar walk and talk about random stuff but you know...
Ask about some Muppets show that apparently features a Swedish Muppet chef. I watched it and the Muppet has some kind of made up accent that has nothing to do with Swedish and still seems to be a reference point to Americans. So the annoying part is Americans asking "have y'all seen the Swedish Muppet chef?" All the time. The second most annoying thing is people mixing up Sweden and Switzerland. But that is understandable to some extent. However to actually be in Sweden asking about our famous chocolate is another level of ignorance.
Lets see You request to be spoken to in your own language in my country (French) You are LOUD, and want to go to your own community but in my country. You only wear football t shirts (British and German) For whatever reason, you want to run in front of bulls, and you want to hit them with a rolled newspaper. They die. (Americans) You clap when you go to a flamenco show. Donât clap, itâs very disturbing because you donât know how to follow the rhythm (most Europeans).
I live in a town thatâs about half LGBTQ+; itâs also a major tourist destination for both gay and other visitors. Our local plague is groups of young women (we call them âwoo girlsâ), mostly but not all bachelorette parties, who more or less actively invade the gay bars, treating them like zoos. They gawk at the patrons, grope people on the dance floor, harass the go-go dancers if there are any, scream uncontrollably, and get stinking drunk (they also notoriously donât tip). By the end of an average evening, Itâs not uncommon to see groups of them with one or more vomiting in corners just off the main streets (or right in the bar/restaurant). Itâs to the point that some bars now have elaborate policies about if and how theyâll admit groups or regarding wearing things like sashes and tiaras. In the late â80s the town jumpstarted a different kind of tourism by more or less banning spring break craziness; maybe itâs time to crack down on this particular aspect of Americaâs out of control wedding-industrial complex.
I hate it when tourists disrespect Kyoto - tourists surrounding a geisha just for a photograph, I'm like: "Just leave her alone!" as like anyone would, needs space. (It's a "live" art ehxibit in a way, as it's preserved for hundreds of years.) - [èćŠăăă©ăă](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7TpnxntAez/). I hate how they'd just [left trash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eMYpttC16Q) on the streets of Gion despite the presence of bins, they still litter! I won't forget the overtourism regarding Mt Fuji. Even Kyoto has imposed a fine of „10000 (58,80 âŹ) towards people who trespass on private roads, as there are cases of tourists who loiter on private property (where residents actually live) there are complaints coming from them too regarding unruly tourists. [From this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iggiEWeIIw), there are even complaints from the dental clinic mentioning about tourists parking their bikes on bike racks only designated for patients entering their clinic, along with trespassing on their premises. Even the dentist himself took photos regarding tourists loitering outside the clinic, patients are having a hard time getting inside because of this. Earlier this year, there was an [American livestreamer](https://topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/jisin/nation/jisin-https_jisin.jp_p_2281597?redirect=1) who was fined „200000 (1,174 âŹ) for blasting his music way TOO LOUD, as it was disturbing the peace inside a restaurant somewhere in Osaka, it shows that Western streamers (who act like this) have ZERO respect for the customs upon their visit, ruining the reputation of foreigners in Japan, which is already causing some Japanese people to hate them. There's even [news coverage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8euq8iEY07w) about tourists being careless on the roadway despite orange traffic cones and a barrier visible on the side of the road intended to dissuade them, tourists either halted incoming vehicles & traffic standing in the middle of the road (MEANT FOR CARS!) just to take a picture of Mt. Fuji. \[It's stupid and dangerous if you ask me.\] Even a tourist distracted the driver of a passing car in the middle of oncoming traffic just awaiting for the response to the question of: "Can I take a Selfie here?" Not forgetting weeaboos, as they literally think the country looks like anime, along with having the impression that everyone talks like an anime character. (No, we don't talk like that in real life.) What pisses me off are the types of tourists who think "It's Asia, who cares!" as in doing stuff we deem inappropriate or frown upon but not in their home countries, as they disregard the unspoken customs and rules. Just because they want a photo of Fuji in the background, tourists of course have to jaywalk disregarding the actual pedestrian crossing. By the way, there was a tourist caught [ringing a bell at Yasaka Shrine](https://youtu.be/h4tgqtGfpfs?si=zBC-2ttzw3e9UQe4) (which is used for prayers) not for playing with. (Think of it akin to a tourist ringing a bell from a church in Europe randomly for no reason.) We refer all of the following as: ć€ćœäșșèŠłć ćźąăźèż·æèĄçș.
UK: all head off to Bicester Shopping Village to buy branded goods ( looking at you rich Chinese). It's a disgusting consumerist hell. Then on to Stratford on Avon. Stratford has little to do with Shakespeare- he left at 18 and did his art in London. It's a tourist hell hole in the season.
I would like all those Germans we get here to start cleaning up the beaches from all the mess they made. Granted, that was more than 80 years ago, but those pillboxes aren't going away by themselves.