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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although I loved Greece, I could not help but feel as a "loud tourist" there. Every guard and  museum worker had their own set of rules and on more than one occasion were called disrespectful to their culture. It seemed as those made-up rules helped them feel important and provided an occasion to rudely lecture us. For example, my DH did a headstand for the picture with Acropolis on the background (we make one of those pics in every country we go). We were immediately approached by an Acropolis worker who demanded to delete the "disrespectful" picture. Similar happened several times (I honestly don't remember what we did) and at one point an American family who observed us getting in trouble approached and politely asked the worker to review the rules as they were afraid to be disrespectful too:) Other than that, Greeks were very nice and tolerant towards tourists.[/quote]

Gee, how old is your husband? 12? [/quote]

Right?  Trying to picture the headstand picture in front of A memorial or such. What a douche. [/quote]
We were 20 and 22, and it was not on the actual site. Not like he was doing it in a museum. I see nothing wrong on doing a headstand on the National Mall. You sound like an uptight douche yourself.[/quote]

Not to pile on, but I can see why you were repeatedly getting lectured.[/quote]
Why?
Well maybe we sound worse than we were, but we IRL we are well behaved, for better of for worse. We were far away from the crowd, far away from Acropolis itself. What's wrong with posing for pictures?  As I said other tourists, much older than us then, had a feeling that rules were made up on a spot (e.g. not sitting on a bench - not the 100000000 old bench, but a normal one:), empathized and asked to get a rundown of the rules so that their camera would not be taken away and pictures would not be deleted. They were brushed off. But I am not being defensive anymore, you guys know better of course.[/quote]
See! they did not take his camera away http://www.gsadvrdr.com/2009/06/08/the-power-of-heated-vinyasa/
and he's much close than we were![/quote]

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