Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He was spot on. Particularly this part: "...Who travel in groups and herds and troupes Of varying breeds and sexes Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals And the clicking of Roliflexes." The recent trip I took to Provence was an organized "workshop". With the exception of the Cours in Arles I didn't really enjoy it at all and felt like the characiture of a Japanese tourist; it was actually embarrassing at times. A horde of people, heavily armed with cameras, being lectured to, herded about, told to be at place X no later than time Y, and such other distractions. This is not a good way to spend one's time off and I won't do it again. Next break is going to be the Maldives on my own or perhaps with one dive buddy. Wendy On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net> wrote: > Jim, > > Noel Coward had the answer: > > Travel they say improves the mind, > An irritating platitude, which frankly, entre nous, > Is very far from true. > > Personally I've yet to find that longtitude and latitude > can educate those scores of monumental bores > Who travel in groups and herds and troupes > Of varying breeds and sexes > Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals > And the clicking of Roliflexes. > > Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel > When the right people stay back home? > What compulsion compels them and who the hell tells them > To drag their bags to Zanzibar, instead of staying quietly in Omaha > The Taj Mahal and the Grand Canal > And the sunny French Rivera > Would be less oppressed if the Middle West > Would settle for somewhere rather nearer > Please do not think that I criticize or cavel at a genuine urge to roam > But why, oh why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay back > home > And mind their business > when the right people stay back home > with television > when the right people stay back home > I'm merely asking > why the right people stay back home > > Just when you think romance is ripe it rather sharply dawns on you > That each sweet serenade is for the tourist trade > Any attractive native type who resolutely fawns on you > Will give as his address American Express > There isn't a rock between Bangkok and the beaches of Hispianola > That does not recoil from suntan oil and the gurgle of Coca-Cola > > Why do the wrong people travel, travel travel > When the right people stay back home? > What explains this mass mania to leave Pennsylvania > And clack around like flocks of geese > Demanding dry martinis on the isles of Greece > In the smallest street, where the gourmets meet, > They invariably fetch up > And it's hard to make them accept a steak > that isn't served rare and smeared with ketchup > It would take years to unravel, ravel, ravel > Every impulse that makes them roam. > But why, oh why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay back > home > And eat hot doughnuts > when the right people stay back home > with all that lettuce > when the right people stay back home > I sometimes wonder > why the right people stay back home > > Why do the wrong people travel, travel travel > When the right people stay back home? > What peculiar obsessions inspire those processions > Of families from Houston Tex > with all those cameras around their necks? > They will take a train > Or an aeroplane > For an hour on the Costa Brava, > And they'll see Pompeii > On the only day > That it's up to its ass in molten lava! > Millions of tourists are churning up the gravel > While they gaze at St. Peter's Dome, > But why oh WHY do the wrong people travel > When the right people stay at home." > and play canasta > when the right people stay back home > won't someone tell me > why the right people stay back home > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul <lug-bounces%2Bjshul>=comcast.net@ > leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim > Nichols > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:43 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide > > Good photo, Jim, but I don't see a happy visitor anywhere. Why do people > punish themselves like this? > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul at comcast.net> > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:18 PM > Subject: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/tour+guide+sm.jpg.html > > > > > > > > Leica M3, Summilux 50, Efke 50 > > > > > > > > Jim Shulman > > > > Wynnewood, PA > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >