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Fanny pack, ugly shirt, shorts with too many pockets, shoes (which look silly with shorts). Can spot the typical American tourist from a mile away. Euro touri
by Mikeb85 7y ago
Fanny pack, ugly shirt, shorts with too many pockets, shoes (which look silly with shorts). Can spot the typical American tourist from a mile away. Euro tourists look a bit different, but still almost always dress the same as each other.
The gist of it is, tourists typically are carrying way more shit than they need and look silly more often than not. It's also nice to just walk around with the same amount of shit as you would if you were walking around your home city.
- kasey_junk 7y agoYou can always spot German tourists when traveling abroad. They are the ones with the extremely technical hiking clothing wandering around the museum. I’m only kind of kidding. That is to say tourists look like tourists everywhere because they are different. The better advice than “don’t dress like a tourist” is “don’t expect where you are traveling to be the same as where you are from. Take some time to see if you can pick out what they are.”
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoFanny packs aren’t really an American thing. Actually, you’ve basically described Australian tourists in Bali in my experience. In Europe at least, nine times out of ten, that tourist is not American. We just aren’t very numerous compared to Europeans in Europe (don’t you know most of us don’t even have passports). Russians on the other hand....
- fj39dkf 7y agoAre you sure this description of an American tourist didn't come from a 1990s newspaper cartoon? Fanny pack? Really?