Some tourists say silly things, like “No-one told me there would be fish in the sea,” and other gems.
Those stupid and funny things are uttered because of the uncomfortable feeling while they are on holiday vacation.
Here are some of the most hilarious and ridiculous outbursts from tourists abroad:
Comedian Eddie Izzard once said, “I’m from Europe, you know, where the history comes from.” However, in a place where a castle is a fluted turreted affair created by an animator at Disney, it’s perhaps no surprise that a tourist to Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire asked: “Why did they build so many ruined castles and abbeys in England?”
Brits seem only too happy to make stupid complaints when not asking stupid questions. A British tourist complained about the opening times of local businesses on the island after coming back from a holiday in Tenerife: “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time this should be banned.”. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time this should be banned.”
After taking a holiday to Goa, a region of India famous for its spicy food where fish curry is a staple of the diet, a traveller wrote to complain: “I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all.”
A visiting American to British shores was overhead asking a tour guide with no hint of irony: “Why did they build Windsor Castle on the flight path to Heathrow?”
A New Yorker who, after having sat through the first half of Shakespeare’s Othello at the Globe Theatre in London said to his friend in the interval: “Gee, this Shakespeare dude is tough, I wasn’t expecting so many words and stuff.”
Abroad, Brits can be equally clueless, however, as a visitor to the Grand Canyon National Park once asked a tour guide: “Was this man-made?”
One disgruntled wife wrote to her tour operator after a cheap holiday in Tenerife went spectacularly wrong for the couple: “Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women.”
However, this woman was topped by another female who felt her holiday had been ruined by the bedding arrangements in her hotel room: “My fianc© and I booked a twin-bedded room, but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”
