Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide
From: wendythurman at gmail.com (Wendy Thurman)
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:13:21 +0500
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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-----
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> 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
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