The daily writing prompt is poking me at my weak spot. I walk every day I can and my goal is to walk roughly 2h per day or 10K steps. I believe that walking makes life better, and cars make it worse. Walking also gives material for blog posts.
Here are photos from my two daily walks today. The first one was part of my trip back home.
A thousand tourists staring at a marvelous tourist creation, like flies attracted by sugary water. Tourists can make the prettiest thing on the planet look undesirable.
Stray white panther from Sofia. Well fed and bored, refused to look at me for the photo. Wouldn’t have seen her without my evening walk to buy food. No tourists around.
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Are there times or seasons when the tourist aren’t around? Where I live, we have lots of seasonal residents, only here for a few months, and although they are great for the local economy, life is so much better when they’re gone:-)
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Who knows. I was briefly in Rome and was mostly worried about my computer. But the tourist areas in that city seemed to be unpleasantly crowded.
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Hey now… we “met” when I was a tourist in Sofia and you ran across my blog post! Seriously, though, I understand. I grew up near Williamsburg, Virginia, and there are MANY tourists there. I understand how they can make things difficult. These days, I like to try visiting places that are more off the beaten path.
As for Rome, I’m with you about the crowds. We went there in 2013 and I thought I’d love it, but it was actually my least favorite Italian city. But since I love Italy, that doesn’t mean much.
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I think Rome is fine if you stay out of the tourist areas. Maybe below average on walking infrastructure. I’d give it 3/10 where Sofia is maybe 5.
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I found Rome overwhelming. Maybe I should visit again, though. Stay in a different hotel.
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Tourist streets where you bump into people while slowly moving cars try to run over you, areas where 100% of all shops and restaurants are tourist traps, cars double parked on sidewalks? I’m not sure the hotel can be the problem.
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I wasn’t trying to say the hotel was the problem. I just didn’t enjoy where we stayed. It was a new place on a side street and there was a lot of construction near it. It wasn’t an awful place; it just wasn’t the kind of place I necessarily enjoy. But then, that was ten years ago. Hopefully, the construction is done now.
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