Originally Posted by
fishferbrains
This guy is basically complaining about basic language issues and the fact that people are too friendly or are trying to sell you something.
What's interesting is that aside from perhaps Burma and our US flight and entry processes - every country is perceived as welcoming to the visitor.
Exactly! ^ With due respect to the
Backpacker columnist, he assembled this list "with the help of a few adventurous readers," and many of the complaints are about a lack of English speakers or English menus. If those are your criteria, best to stick to English-speaking countries and then complain about their funny accents.
In fact, if you look at his list of
the world's easiest countries to travel through from the previous week, you'll find the UK, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Germany, Netherlands, Malaysia, Canada, and Denmark.
A lot of FTers could have thrown together more credible columns, but I agree that the fact the U.S. appeared on the "most difficult" rather than the "easiest" list is what's significant. @:-)
'Nuff said about the columns themselves.
