What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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I'm in Tennessee. The smokey mountains. They are wonderful... But pigeon forge / Sevierville/ Gatlinburg is just a touristy blight now.
There's much better places to go than there.
Where would you recommend? We visited earlier this year and I found it overwhelming, though the abundance of family-friendly stuff was nice.
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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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Palm trees and birds that stand chest high.
I spend about 1/4 of the year in the UK so I'm used to it now but I remember being shocked by the bad teeth.
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We also get turkeys.
Ah, yes. Those fuckers regularly stopped traffic when I lived in Michigan. Not for tourist reasons of course, they're just big and travel in packs. And take their sweet time crossing the road.
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I grew up in Ohio and we had shitloads of opossums. Also deer.
Yeah I didn’t mean to imply they’re all exclusive to where I live, but the opossum anecdote is actually from a person I met from Ohio funny enough.
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I love explaining the Autobahn to my foreign friends. "It's just the word for highway". "All highways are called autobahns". "Yes, sometimes there is a speed limit". "Even where there's no speed limit, we won't be driving that fast".
More importantly, if they ever come here, they should check their insurance papers for exclusion clauses like "this contract does not cover accidents in the cities of Rome and Paris, and on German highways (Autobahn)."
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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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Oktoberfest
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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.
It wouldn't surprise me if fancy people in Greece would use granite instead.
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This was because PalPa, the company responsible for maintaining Finland's recycling system was (and is) a corrupt heap of shit.
It's owned by the largest breweries and they used it for keeping smaller and foreign companies out if business. You couldn't get a right to use Finnish bottles –> You had to pay a steep punishment tax for using non-recyclable bottles.
They successfully argued that washing bottles from that many sources would be impossible to organize, so the EU required PalPa to start accepting crushable PET bottles, which are easy to produce without any active coöperation by PalPa.
PalPa(...tine?) was hoping that they could still somehow block this from happening, so they framed the change as Evil EU forcing Finland to stop washing bottles. And when the PET bottles were indeed accepted in the end, they dismantled the whole bottle washing system in Finland so that they wouldn't be held accountable for their lies.
So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
Don't forget healthcare and dental. Kids don't get free dental anymore?
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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.
I live in New York City. Apparently (based on how shocked they look) tourists come from places without: Gift Shops, Theaters, Rats, Black People, Buildings, or Walking.
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In Sydney most trains...
(a) Are double decker
(b) Have seats which flip to face the opposite direction.
Australian pedestrian crossing lights cater for the blind and the deaf-and-blind. Billie Eilish's brother/producer sampled the sound, when he visited, for her smash hit.
sadly the newest trains (the first ones to have any bike storage too) have given up on the flipping seats and I'm worried going forward we'll lose one of the best things about an otherwise deteriorating rail network.
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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.
Squirrels, I guess. Oh and so many prisons.
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So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
Don't forget healthcare and dental. Kids don't get free dental anymore?
That's not because of an organization trying to make Finland ignore the EU legislation using strategies that then cause us to run headlong against a wall, though.
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Where would you recommend? We visited earlier this year and I found it overwhelming, though the abundance of family-friendly stuff was nice.
Depends on what you want out of your trip.
Townsend on the backside is nice.
Cherokee (and has gambling) is nice
Any small valley town in the range is going to be fine.But when I go, I tend to just go for the views and like one day in actual Gatlinburg. I'm from e.tn so the tourist stuff is oldhat for me.
So I'll go get a cabin in the deep dark woods and just be "off grid" for a bit. But that's not what everyone does.
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I was a bit excited that the US squirrels are gray and large, we have smaller red ones in Germany.
I wonder where you visited! Grey squirrels are rare where I’m from in the US, 90% brown in midwest
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Oktoberfest
I dunno exactly what you're talking about, but I'm moved to say: fuck KW Oktoberfest.
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sadly the newest trains (the first ones to have any bike storage too) have given up on the flipping seats and I'm worried going forward we'll lose one of the best things about an otherwise deteriorating rail network.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Damn. I haven't caught one of those new Intercity trains yet. These trains were the cause of many strikes before they even started operating. They should have been striking about the flip flop!
And why is there trackwork one or two weekends per month? Are the contractors maybe corruptly milking the government? And yet breakdowns seem to be more frequent than ever.
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I grew up near Oceana Naval Air Base. Only tourists look up when they hear jet noise.
Ayo, VB ... Pause for jet noise to end ... represent.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I live in the middle of a very sparsely populated forest. Tourists want to see the black bears, wolves, eagles, loons, and deer. You will see the deer, eagles, and loons if you are on a lake. But you probably need to spend serious time in the forest on foot to bump a bear or wolf. If you want to see those, we have a bear and then a wolf center where biologists study their behavior and keep a small number in captivity. And evidently, both centers are pretty famous for the work they do with other wildlife biologists around the world.
And oddly enough come fall, they drive around to see the leaves on the trees turn pretty colors. It's popular enough that news stations in the one large metropolitan area we have in this state, actually tracks and includes the rate and areas where the leaves are turning color so tourists can drive and see them.
When winter arrives, we get a fair number that drive here to go ice fishing when the ice gets safe enough to drive on.
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Sure, ride one, but is it an emotional experience to see a motorized vehicle on tracks arrive in a metro station?
wrote last edited by [email protected]If you're not used to it, the subway can be a really novel experience. The metro is also an interesting part of Montreal's history for tourists - it's relationship to Expo 67, the development of RÉSO, the kind of things that can lend more interest for someone learning about the city. Plus the station designs are pretty neat.
Source: One of those tourists who loves the metro in Montreal. + trains in general are dope.
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I live in New York City. Apparently (based on how shocked they look) tourists come from places without: Gift Shops, Theaters, Rats, Black People, Buildings, or Walking.
Do people really say "ay im walkin' here"?
