Today I passed some tourists and chuckled to myself. With their backpacks, guidebooks, and cameras I felt like a local compared to them. It’s when I open my mouth to try to buy something at the market that the real locals chuckle. I did end up walking away with what I wanted (cheese, chicken, prunes, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tourist’
2 Nov
Your Traveling Tourist
Posted by Samantha in greece. Tagged: abroad, American, backpack, bus, camera, cheese, chicken, culture, guidebook, halloween, hike, hotel, Kalambaka, market, Meteora, monasteries, monks, mountains, nunneries, nuns, Paige, pears, pomegranate, prunes, rocks, study, Thessaloniki, tickets, toga, tourist, weird, wind. 1 Comment
12 May
Beautiful, Very Beautiful
Posted by Samantha in China. Tagged: airport, bargain, beautiful, Beijing, blog, boyfriend, China, fair, firewalls, food, Forbidden City, hotel, lawyer, picture, plane, sleep, starfish, swine flu, tourist. Leave a Comment
So, I’ve made it to China, more specifically – Beijing. The key word so far is definitely “beautiful”. I didn’t think so at first though. After coming to the end of the 13 1/2 hour flight we were stuck on the plane for awhile so masked airport security could come through and individually check each [...]
