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Thread #164987   Message #3954874
Posted By: Jim Carroll
05-Oct-18 - 11:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Catholic bigotry in the Sistine Chapel
Subject: RE: BS: Catholic bigotry in the Sistine Chapel
Did you walk the Samarian Gorge ?
We were staying at a hotel which was caring for a tourist lady who did so in sling-back shoes - they had to ship her back early

All this doesn't have too much to do with the subject title except that it relates to how tourists react (often badly) to the sensibilities of other countries
We were appalled at overhearing a tour-guide one night persuading a bunch of her drunken charges to "come and see the pretty lights" in the local cemetery
One of the most beautiful experiences we had in Northern Greece (which we are still totally besotted with) was to go into a cemetary one evening and see the way local people fondly commemorate the dead by placing a lighted candle inside a specially made glass box placed over the grave - magic - but not in drunken bunches (the Falaraki Syndrome)
Jim