What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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Black squirrels. They're very normal to us but I find a lot of people who travel here, especially from the U.S. are shocked to see them lol
Here's a fun little story about the first time we saw black squirrels.
We had just moved to Norfolk, Virginia. My mom is driving through Norfolk, Virginia. Have you been to Norfolk, Virginia? Norfolk, Virginia is heavily African American. Heavily. We are white.
My mom is driving, downtown Norfolk. It's very heavy traffic, we're going slow. It's one of those areas where you worry about someone randomly starts cleaning your windshield, or if it's late at night you might you may worry about carjackings. We do not have air-conditioning, and our windows are down.
My mom sees a group of black squirrels for the first time in her life. And she yells out "OH MY GOD THEY'RE BLACK! THEY'RE ALL BLACK"
I swear to you, I have never seen turn so pale so quick. She looks around and sees that lots and lots of people walking around have, indeed, heard her.
Luckily, traffic was moving fast enough there wasn't too long of an awkward time with the people on the street.
Given the reaction everyone has to black squirrel I'm pretty sure the folks on the street knew why she'd yelled, but we didn't know that at the time. Lol
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Bro you said a church was built "before any humans set foot there". So the people who built the church never set foot there. How did they build the church? Were they levitating?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
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But it also isn't used in the fancy rich places simply because it's expensive, it's also because it's beautiful.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I feel like it's 80% the expense. If most rock was like that everybody would be looking for boring sandstone.
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Does he have a tail or am I seeing the armadillo's dick there?
They have tails. May still be a dick idk
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I grew up in Ohio and we had shitloads of opossums. Also deer.
Yeah I recently left and I miss the little guys.
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
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Trees which change color in the fall
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
So Canada then.
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The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.
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Black squirrels. They're very normal to us but I find a lot of people who travel here, especially from the U.S. are shocked to see them lol
This sounds like a pretty Calgarian response. While I know that there are black variants of eastern grey squirrels in pockets all over North America, ours were specifically introduced as such. They've subsequently pushed out local squirrel and chipmunk populations. I don't think you can even find a squirrel in Calgary that isn't black.
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Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.
and wtf do Emu's have to do with either the UK of NZ
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
My area isn't too tourist heavy until you go to the mountains, but I once saw a bunch of tourists crowd around a rattler and one of the dumb fucks got bit. Closest thing I can think of, actually correction I've seen some tourists amazed by a sand storm coming off a dry lakebed on a turnout along the 15.
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What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
This is so mundane fried chicken for me, just comfort food in the Philippines, but no thanks to some influencers, tourists flock to this specific fast food restaurant expecting it to be some culinary treasure.
Like a Jolibees or something?
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Montreal. I don't understand the people that excitedly wait for the metro to arrive and take pictures. It's a subway.
People that take panoramic shots of downtown of people walking on the sidewalk.
I guess some tourists come from places with no rail or sidewalks.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Most Metros and trains look different in different countries. I like to take photos of them when I'm abroad because it's part of the experience for me. Sure, the differences are small, but sometimes it's all the more interesting when something works almost like it does at home but not exactly the same.
And then I think you underestimate the amount of people who photograph trains as a hobby. I think the German train photography subreddit regularly had posts in r/all.
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So Canada then.
Canada does have mountains and legal weed.
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The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
Thank you. Now that makes sense to me. And I used emu because I didn't know NZ fauna and defaulted to AUS.
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Whales, northern lights, reindeer
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Canal bridges that open to let ships through for some reason? I often see tourist making pictures of that.
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Niagara Falls. It's spectacular to visitors but for me it's right there so it's just a bunch of water falling off a ledge.
As a tourist I was fascinated by the colourful lighting of the falls and the amount of tall buildings around. For some reason I used to imagine the Niagara Falls as a beautiful natural site.
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Putting more stuff in washable bottles than before happens in many places? Are you sure?
Czechia as well, pretty sure more European countries.
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We had bendy buses for a brief moment.
i NORCAL they are basically on the most of the lines that travel the longest routes.
