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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2009 19:46:11 GMT
I was thinking that we could post random photos of places that we have been that had just too many people during the summer tourist season. (Personal photos of yours only, not things gleaned off the internet, please.) Just for a start, here is a photo of the beach at Berck-sur-Mer (France) in mid-summer. It is on the English Channel, so it is about as far from a fashionable French beach resort as you can get, attracting exclusively working class people from the surrounding region. But there are a lot of them! |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2009 23:37:32 GMT
What always gets me about crowded beach scene pictures is that everyone acts as though it's all swell -- that they're not standing around a hot, sandy place more crowded than where they wait for public transit when they're working.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 6, 2009 22:04:15 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2009 23:35:13 GMT
 That just killed my long-held desire to visit Venice.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 6, 2009 23:46:10 GMT
Bixa:
No, no no!!!!! Don't let this influence you, Venice is wonderful!!!!! I wasn't to keen to go but Kirk talked me into it and I do not for one minute regret it. I would go back and I didn't think that would happen.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2009 23:56:51 GMT
Yeah? That's a relief. It's not totally impossible that I might have the opportunity one day. Besides, I was rather crushed to have my fantasy uh, crushed.
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Post by nic on Jul 14, 2009 7:49:10 GMT
That just killed my long-held desire to visit Venice. Don't go in the Summer. Sure, the weather isn't as lovely, but I really enjoy Venice in the Winter -- January or February. You can actually throw a rock and not immediately hit a tourist! A lot of places are closed too, but that's just more incentive to delve deeper into Venice. |
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Post by Jazz on Jul 14, 2009 8:01:21 GMT
Bixa, I spent a week in Venice in October and it was magical. Go, if only once. There are two wonderful day trips, one to Murano, the island where they make superb glass, and Burano, the island of the lacemakers. I wouldn't go near the place in July or August.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2009 2:53:49 GMT
Has anyone gone during Carnival? One always reads about it. I wouldn't want to go if it was real crazy like here. More a romantic idea maybe.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 18, 2009 20:10:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 19:45:31 GMT
This is the queue of people just waiting to get into Notre Dame at 11:00 a.m. today. I'm sure it got a lot worse later in the day. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2009 11:57:08 GMT
Talking of vacations, I'm off again soon. Yeah, I know, I'm a spolit brat.
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