my lightly spicy take is that if you're the sort of person willing to go through a Guardian long read on how to be a "good tourist" then you probably are not one of the bad tourists people complain about anyway https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/aug/19/the-good-tourist-can-we-learn-to-travel-without-absolutely-infuriating-the-locals
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My kiddo told me I was "speaking the magic words"
(Kids got Mandarin & Spanish in school)
I now just pull out my phone and hand it over.
I intended to learn German, but 5-6 weeks into being there, I learned I wouldn't be there for more than a year, and then it seemed pointless.
It's surprisingly easy to get by on A1 to no local language skills.
I think they meant that I shrugged a lot.
Spanish is about the tone. The deeper the tone the more serious the speaker :)
My mum gets finnish. Even down to 'you're not? But you even have the haircut.'
Me with my big Irish head and pallor like the grave :)
I must just look approachable…
Moroccans were as baffled at me bring there as we would be at Moroccan visitors to Merseyside going to Bootle rather than Liverpool.
The relentless evolution of generations under the never ending rain across Offaly and Tipperary.
...bang on!
Pride myself on that
One is respect
Interrailers take local trains, stay in hostels (i.e. not local housing), stay overnight and spend € locally
None of my friends wanted to take up arms with super soakers for "Matrix" like battles in the streets of Barcelona...
As well as what you say, you end up with infrastructure (restaurants, shops, etc) sized to meet peak demand, which is unused most of the time.
Coach operators do well, restaurants not so much.