Sometimes going to Paris in August may be the only feasible time to go...Vacation schedules etc...

Ah, Boarding Area, surely it's the gift that keeps on giving. Today's classic is "How Many European Countries Have You Visited?" from Michael W. Travels. In his world, "however" works as a conjunction and punctuation is evidently as optional as substance -- you know, a thought. I would've settled for just about any thought, even a dumb or outdated one. So, ladies and gentlemen, here's my modest offering in this vein: can you really visit a blog if there's no "there" there?

What a small minded assumption that one comments makes up all his/her reader base.

I'm not embarrassed. It's not just Americans that make those kinds of statements.

Then those others should be embarrassed as well!

That said, the stereotype of the "ugly American" is one of the more common among tourists (deservedly or not) and we don't need more people contributing to that image.

If we're going to engage in stereotypes, IME the 'ugliest' tourists (ie, loud, rude, ignoring local customs, etc) these days are Chinese and Russians.

I kind of give the Chinese a pass, though, as their cultural norms are just so different.

anyone ONLY using american stereotypes these days is totally out of date

A couple of interesting links along these lines...

http://www.businessinsider.com/worst...ts-2013-5?op=1

I'm surprised at seeing Australians in there - I've run into a fair number in other countries and they typically seem well mannered.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/anale...inese-tourists

Went over and read the other comments on that blog. I stand by my statement.

Wow, martyrizing yourself by going back and reading that stuff again is really beyond the call of duty. I'd rather find new train wrecks than revisit old ones.

The rest of your post from 2 September is quoted in this "The Gate" blog post that it apparently inspired. In a further nod to this thread, the post includes an excruciating excrement 'joke'. Dire.

That made me lol.

And, as I posted in his comments:

Ha! This post is more evidence that p&m bloggers just lift their stuff from Flyertalk!!! :p. ;)

I just got a preview of his next post:

http://i58.tinypic.com/smsldd.jpg

stackm is famous now!

Oh my goodness! A train wreck about train wrecks! I think I'm finally in seventh heaven . . . .

i think linked author forgot about "flyover country" tourists from other countries besides US (and such US tourists are very limited in where they travel to)