Comments about tourists

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Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories By Alan Kupperberg Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Chillygirl: I don't live on Kauai, but I think I understand both points of view. As both a hunter and a conservationist, I have a suggestion for both sides to consider. Since the chickens are suffering......

in response to: Wild Chickens by Tyfoid Kid

Tony (47): As a frequent worldwide traveller (what with being an airline pilot) it's definitely been my experience that in many Canadian cities (Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary) that the number of down-and-outs / bums / druggies / alcoholics......

in response to: Drugs, Drugs, Drugs by ksedge

Peter: {citynoise}: where {american} {tourists} come to find cheap {prostitutes} in {montreal}... lol....

in response to: Red Light District by CE

EvilGentleman: As far as the urban legend aspect of things goes, how could we get a website like [[http://www.snopes.com]] to have a look at it, and see what they dig up? I am really curious about......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Alright Evil I was a little harsh .... the Americans pretending to be Canadian story gets under my skin ... again I've never hear a serious case of an American pretending to be Canadian (people......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Saks: Yes, I agree. And the 'fabelas,' denominated by Walkwhere so eloquently as slums Brazil, have are a completely different concept. Oh yes, and trust me, fabelas are not intended in any way to be pretty......

in response to: The Living Mosaic by serlingrod

serlingrod: interesting interpretation... the thing is, tourists would never set foot in this part of town. we're talking miles from the Liberty Bell. this is a community-driven effort. I agree that it's low cost band-aid to......

in response to: The Living Mosaic by serlingrod

walkhere: this all kinda creeps me out.. just reminds me of that simpsons episode when they're in brazil and someone explains to the simpsons that the slum-houses are all painted bright, happy colours just to make......

in response to: The Living Mosaic by serlingrod

Peter: im wondering where, exactly, theyre supposed to "go home" to... anglo-ville? or are they referring to tourists or something?...

in response to: Anglos Go Home by CE

anon (bas4-montreal02-1096736209.dsl.bell.ca): Number 39 made me laugh, it's so true. I've been asked by tourists where to get good poutine lol...

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

Indeed Bill Harding they cut kite lines, but with what type of line??: Pakistan province lifts 2005 kite ban Kite flying is a popular sport in Pakistan The government of Pakistan's Punjab province is to allow kite-flying during the Basant spring festival in February 2007. But officials said the kite-makers......

in response to: Kite String All over Milliken Park by Michelle

EvilGentleman: Georges, The predominant prejudice in Montreal is still language. As an English-speaker, I seldom notice anti-Americanism among the French Quebecers. This may be due in part to my not being to understand most of what......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians. Dislike......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

susannah: Thanks so much for these photos and commentary- they brings home the reality of the situation. I'm sorry about the tourists- that is pretty upsetting. I couldn't bear to go to ground zero after 9/11......

in response to: Bridge Collapse 2 - Life in the Exclusion Zone by Tyfoid Kid

serlingrod: those two young female "disaster tourists" don't quite sit well with me........

in response to: Bridge Collapse 2 - Life in the Exclusion Zone by Tyfoid Kid

shankill: Wouldnt live anywere else!! thers great shops and cafes and the people are the most friendly by far. tourists walk freely all over the shankill and along the peace walls, signing their names and leaving messages......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: Nah, I'm just a guy who likes to take lots of pictures and post them on the internet, sharing the world I see with others, using my preference for a comprehensive photojournalistic presentation style. I......

in response to: Sexe Cite by EvilGentleman

Sirhcbre: I think 36 applies just about everywhere. I hate when the tourists ask where the touristy stuff is but I guess to most of them, it's something exotic since many of them are Americans up here......

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: 39 - Tourists usually ask for directions to the strip bars and trendy nightclubs, **not** "boring" world-famous stuff like Old Montreal, the Plateau Mont-Royal, The Forum, Mount Royal and our smoked-meat delicatessens....

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: That is insane. Can you imagine tourists getting arrested for taking pictures of Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, or the London Eye? Bad enough the cops in Connecticut will confiscate pictures taken of them while on......

in response to: Police State Coming to a Country Near You Soon by elaine

Peter: who isnt impatient towards canal street traffic? heh. i always walk in the road down there cause the sidewalks are too thick with slow-moving tourists looking for fake rolexes....

in response to: Jesus Saves, Again by Peter

jof: EvilGentleman - I admire your suggestion of compromise. I don't think Greeks or Slavic Macedonians are so much connected to the ancient Macedonians that it warrants such a dispute. What threat is there in a......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

aer suzuki: yeah, although you really only see them on capitol hill, which is just a neighborhood within seattle proper. i wish there were more in my area, but i think they get cleaned up around here.......

in response to: The Other Side of Stop - Part 2 by aer suzuki

colin: As a tourists, my friends and I stayed at that hotel (Manhattan Broadway) in the top picture. Certainly an authentic experience, plus it fit into our budget nicely. ...

in response to: Up 8th Ave by jeeff

greek: there isn't macedonia as a country. it's name is f.y.r.o.m.. almost whole greece's north area is called macedonia and now f.y.r.o.m.'s guys want to take the name. that's why we argue. they want it because......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

aer: when i first moved here i disliked the space needle. then i realized it was a good navigational tool and after i started telling tourists that george jetson lived in the space needle i began......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

David: Asheville is neat, but you've got to know where to look. For the most part its retired, croc wearing bourgeois wads and tourists. ...

in response to: Asheville Alleys by ea

Susannah: When I lived in NY as a kid I remember shootings, stabbings, razor bladings, and all out smack downs in our schools, one kid was actually blinded with battery acid by some guy - of......

in response to: Dawson CGEP Shooting by CE

Jan T: Well, it's expensive for tourists in Oslo, but for someone living in Oslo it's not more expensive than for a Londoner to live in London or a parisien to live in Paris. And it depends......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

EvilGentleman: I remember Wilmot pretty fondly from my teen years. Lemme think now. Rick and his brother Ron, Cynthia (now Rick's wife), her best friend Jocelyn, Peter, who was the kid who always threw wild parties......

in response to: Downtown Murals by CE

aer suzuki: for the time of year it depends on what kind of weather you like. if you like having a huge grey smear hanging above your head for a sky (which i do, mostly, perversely) and......

in response to: Japanese Garden by aer suzuki

EvilGentleman: The art, if authentic, should be supported by buying it. I personally feel the best way to buy native art is to go to an Indian reservation and buy it directly from the artist, wherever......

in response to: Fast Cash by joey

Chris Erb: What were you searching for that brought you to Citynoise? It's really neat to see someone else from Fredericton posting here. i'm excited. it's too bad I'm leaving soon. New Brunswick has long......

in response to: Tim in the Streets by Marlo

zagg: t@ngent: aparently Macedonia is very popular with the German tourists (I'm Canadian though). Whenever we watched TV in Macedonia and Greece I was constantly seeing advertisements for Croatia ... its like "hmm, well,......

in response to: In Steep Cliffs with Rocks All Piled Up Mysteries of Your Passing Luck by zagg

Tyfoid Kid: Speaking to the tourists just don't know comment. This lava rock outcropping on Lumahi Beach in Kuaui looks innocent enough. It's killed several people and when we were there last fall there was memorial to the......

in response to: Down Home Charm by Michelle

EvilGentleman: First and foremost, **never, ever** walk out to the water on the tidal flats. Those mud flats can sometimes extend for miles into the bay, and the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy has......

in response to: Down Home Charm by Michelle

Chris Erb: That's definitely what the city is trying to do, they're "cleaning up" the city of anyone who might offend tourists in any way. My friend who was at the protest put it best; "The Fredericton police......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

EvilGentleman: Oddly enough, I quite often find protests an interesting thing to see when I am visiting new places. The protesters and the police can often provide a much more complete picture of the way the......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

Chris Erb: Brilliantly written EvilGentleman. You couldn't have put it any better. We were all able to keep our pictures. None of these are actually mine as my camera was on the wrong setting and didn't......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

Chris Erb: They took the trans Canada away from Sussex quite a few years ago now. I was probably 12 or so, so I don't really remember what it was like. Apparently there was a......

in response to: Fredericton Skyscrapers by CE

spygirl_t: Who knows who thought up, I believe it's being used a to market to tourists... but I don't know anyone here, who actually says t-dot. ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Peter: i also like that first one of the met's glass curtain-wall. i didnt see you take that one yesterday... infallibly, every summer, while their wives peruse the art, dirty old european tourists gather on the other......

in response to: Central Park, Early Spring by Peter

stinkyben: You should have visited a different part of the wall besides Badaling. There are some great stretches where you'll see perhaps one or two other tourists on a 20 mile hike....

in response to: Beijing & The Great Wall of China by Czizou

jeeff: i worked for the cn tower when i first moved to toronto. we had to learn facts about the various buildings downtown so we could tell stories to the tourists. i'm not sure......

in response to: Afternoon Reflection by Elicar

EvilGentleman: I remember being shot at when I was stopped at a red light in Cabrini Green back in 1990. Thankfully, they missed. Actually, I have no idea if I was the actual target or not,......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

EvilGentleman: adam, there are three ways to get to Kangirsujuaq, but only two of them are realistic. The primary mode of transportation into town is by airline. The only airline that goes there on a scheduled......

in response to: Kangirsujuaq by EvilGentleman

grange: there all over the place up here in Owen Sound .. We had to put them up as all the tourists were digging up our yards for dem delicious dew worms BBQ. Now if we......

in response to: Live Bait Vending Machine by Gregory St.Pierre

Jamie: I like to imagine tourists (and in my little daydream these tourists are naively american) blindly following the pedestrian signs that lead out of the city centre towards this place. Leftovers of a time, sometime......

in response to: Railworld Redux by Jamie

adam: i loveddd the canyon.. my jaw dropped when i first got to the south rim and saw the canyon through the trees. it was totally a "what the fuck" moment.. i just wish the tourists......

in response to: Condors and Canyon by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: true...true...not a city, but noisy with tourists....ok, so you caught me. But Condors! Real, live condors! I sent in tons of milk-bottle tops to Blue Peter to save these vultures. Sigh...I'll keep to cities from......

in response to: Condors and Canyon by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I ain't knocking tourists, but if you need to get from A to B walking or in a car, you never go through Times Square. If your destination is Times Square, then that's a different......

in response to: Times Square by Peter

Balloonhedz: I think its got something to do with it being full of tourists which is a lot of bull. We'd be in deep shit financially without those people even if they CAN be a......

in response to: Times Square by Peter

elaine: hum. west end is where the theatres and big shops are and tourists go and the queen lives. not that many people live there, but it would be good to live there if you were......

in response to: abject objects by elaine

jack: catherine, please don't jump. life is worth living no matter what peter say's. your photos are starting to outshine peter's. i always thought that peter had depth of mind and sense. ......

in response to: Dirty Grand Central Martini by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Reggie: Very one sided view, your obviously one of these tourists who once got a green jumper for xmas and now thinks he is a long lost descendant of St Patrick. You dont know shit and......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

adam: oh man! when i drove cross country we stopped at the botanical garden but didnt go in.. didnt feel like spending the money.. its a cute city but i couldnt find shit to do there........

in response to: Oklahoma City by Saint Clair

Dickriqulous: All due respect to James, but Central Park is truly special. Quite a bit more than "for the tourists." Especially up near the Harlem end, where it is far from a "circus-type atmosphere."......

in response to: Riverside Park by Peter

UnlimitedLou: words AND pictures say so much more ! Reassuring to know that even upmarket 'London-by-the-sea' isn't above a bit of extremely un-picteuresque squalor...Good old Urban Decay - doesn't turn it's unbiquitous nose up at......

in response to: romantic seaview... by elaine

jeeff: i didn't say it myself, just asked your opinion. i think all of the cities you list have a variety of well-known attractions, but i don't know any for hong kong. several of my friends......

in response to: Walking by Stressed

elaine: Fab piece. I have, as you can imagine a real problem with America, so can only relate to Americans who are politicised. It is said that 5% of US citizens have a passport, of which......

in response to: Fisherman\'s Wharf and the Full House Houses by Marc

Observer: P.S. I have lived and worked in N.I/the north of Ireland (!?) for 27years, am in a mixed religion relationship and have many many friends and family on both 'sides'. So to all the tourists/non......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Jerry Hoff: I like your photography.You really have an affection for NYC. I'm from Rochester,but I lived six years in NYC,5 on Thompson & Spring,1 at Park Slope.The whole time I lived there,except to maybe pass through,I never......

in response to: Westside Market: NYC by Peter

James M. McDonald, NYC: For me, Riverside is for the residents and Central is for the tourists. When in Central Park, you're in a circus-type atmosphere, where people are showing off and exhibiting for the out-of-towners. When......

in response to: Riverside Park by Peter