Not sure if I get the point what this actually is,
It was ment for Alain simply to put some other perspective than just where to go into the pot.
(I hope I got it right, and his mother tongue is dutch; I always confuse the french and dutch speaking Belgians.
And I hope I didn't pissed him, because that's what I definetely not want.)
You're funny. And that was not a parody, it very much hits the nail.
Thanks. Best jokes come from reflections on observing oneself. ?
The german comedian
Torsten Sträter, who's openly talking about his depression, in an interview once said:
"Life is not about to use shortcuts, but to the devious routes. The one who always takes the fastes ways, and the short-cuts missed life."
That's what you said.
The most famous tourist spots mostly are overrated, and anyhow totally overflown by masses who only check it off from their bucket list (a terrible term btw). Trying the impossible, to preserve it for eternity by taking pictures, instead to understand that exactly this obsessive fotoshooting kills the value of their vacation.
Many running their whole holidays with a board before their head (a german phrase for having a blocked brain), looking only at their smartphone, filming everything. ?
Once I observed that on myself I have no camera with me in no vacation anymore.
My wife and I found the best places when we were forced to uses devious routes, got lost, or simply spontaneously decided to bend off, voluntary following the first street randomly.
And you don't have to go far for it.
To me europe is bigger than I could visit in a life time.
Besides the main routes are also many places, at least as interesting as the tourist hot-spots.
Most hot spots are simply 'interesting' because they were mentioned somewhere, and became popular.
You just have to be there, to say you've been there.
The cattle is rushing through the whole Louvre, passing hundreds of masterpieces, just to take the 23,456,364,687,251st (bad) pic of the 'Mona Lisa', which is the only one, you cannot regard because of the mob, killing the picture with their flashlights, while the museum's attendants constantly shouting: 'No flash! No flash!' I believe, and hope it's not the original picture anymore, which is back in a save place, but a copy ?
The cattle will not recognize it anyway. Those who do, know when, where, and how to look at the original.
Best example: The leaning tower of Pisa.
There are towers even more leaning than that one (e.g. Bologna). The associated cathedral is way more interesting, but mostly almost empty. While for the tower you have to wait at least half an hour. ?
It simply was in some english tourist guide a hundred(?) years ago. Now everybody must have seen it, because everybody have seen it.
Already second row the restaurants are better, and cost less.
If you're in Venice, take the alleys parallel to the main road.
They're almost empty.
But according to all the posts here, you already figured that out.
Of course - this is a FreeBSD, not a Windows forum.
Not staying on the main road, is quite normal here.
Sorry, my mistake. ?
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