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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like a lot of PPs are just getting older, more set in their ways, and less tolerant of deviations to their set routine. The concept of travel wasn’t magically better when you were in your 20s, you were just more open to new experiences and less curmudgeonly.[/quote]

When I was in my 20s, I lived in London and went to the British museum often, and sometimes shared the Rosetta stone room with just a handful of other people. I went to the Louvre and wandered around the room with the Mona Lisa and got right in her face - no queues. I collected pieces of the falling Berlin Wall.  I sat on the waterfront in Venice watching the boats go by before the city needed to impose entry charges.

I think it was magically better when there were fewer tourists, and I was lucky to be young before tourism grew to current proportions.

In later years I took my kids to some of these places and they were overcrowded and nasty.

Nowadays I tend to go  to places not on any "top ten places to see" lists. That might be a small town in West Virginia or a war memorial museum in a small French village or a bird sanctuary.
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That pay toilet near the Louvre that charges like five bucks just to poop![/quote]

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