Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…
Americans do have a terrible reputation as tourists. And yes, so do Chinese and others. We understand that. What makes this story interesting is that the offender is a local. I presume that is why OP posted it ---- because we all know a DC douchebag like this
"The finance company manager in Washington D.C., Brett Douglas Reck, appeared in the Nelson District Court this morning, delaying his planned return flight to the US to admit a charge of dangerous driving in relation to Friday night’s crash."
As an experienced traveller and a long term expat, it's Americans who obsess the most about bad American tourists. The concept of Europeans/Asians/whatever muttering about horrible American tourists lives more in the mind of certain Americans than in reality. Trust me when I say bad tourists come in all form and shape. Americans are pretty decent tourists and typically highly preferred for generosity and sociability. A lot of has to do with that it's mainly affluent Americans who travel and you've clearly never encountered working class European tourists or Australian redneck tourists or the Chinese tourist hordes.
Did you miss the point or just not read? We all know there are multiple groups to battle it out for worst tourist. Not the point. The story is of not to this crowd bc he’s a Capitol One employee living in Great Falls. Got it? Good
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…
Americans do have a terrible reputation as tourists. And yes, so do Chinese and others. We understand that. What makes this story interesting is that the offender is a local. I presume that is why OP posted it ---- because we all know a DC douchebag like this
"The finance company manager in Washington D.C., Brett Douglas Reck, appeared in the Nelson District Court this morning, delaying his planned return flight to the US to admit a charge of dangerous driving in relation to Friday night’s crash."
As an experienced traveller and a long term expat, it's Americans who obsess the most about bad American tourists. The concept of Europeans/Asians/whatever muttering about horrible American tourists lives more in the mind of certain Americans than in reality. Trust me when I say bad tourists come in all form and shape. Americans are pretty decent tourists and typically highly preferred for generosity and sociability. A lot of has to do with that it's mainly affluent Americans who travel and you've clearly never encountered working class European tourists or Australian redneck tourists or the Chinese tourist hordes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…
Americans do have a terrible reputation as tourists. And yes, so do Chinese and others. We understand that. What makes this story interesting is that the offender is a local. I presume that is why OP posted it ---- because we all know a DC douchebag like this
"The finance company manager in Washington D.C., Brett Douglas Reck, appeared in the Nelson District Court this morning, delaying his planned return flight to the US to admit a charge of dangerous driving in relation to Friday night’s crash."
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just returned from NZ after a two week vacation. It is hard to drive on the other side. MY DH despite his best efforts did end up driving on the wrong side, but quickly adjusted after a couple of honks. Thankfully no issues.
Disagree. I've driven in NZ, Aus, UK, Japan, and India. Your steering wheel is on the other side of the car, that's kind of a big clue. The ONLY time it was a bit tricky was in St John/St Thomas, when the cars are US cars but you still drive on the left.
Thirty years of it and nobody has ever had to honk at me for being on the wrong side.
Anonymous wrote:Just returned from NZ after a two week vacation. It is hard to drive on the other side. MY DH despite his best efforts did end up driving on the wrong side, but quickly adjusted after a couple of honks. Thankfully no issues.
Anonymous wrote:We are vacationing in NZ, and this story involving a guy from home is all over the local news, and now locals also mention it to us when reminding us to drive on the left. I really wish Americans would try harder to avoid bad press abroad that affects other US visitors!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-tourist-brett-reck-hit-car-on-highway-near-nelson-after-driving-on-wrong-side-of-road-for-10-minutes/ALUMKN4ZAFHCFG4DPCGZPZB554/
Anonymous wrote:Just returned from NZ after a two week vacation. It is hard to drive on the other side. MY DH despite his best efforts did end up driving on the wrong side, but quickly adjusted after a couple of honks. Thankfully no issues.
Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…
Anonymous wrote:"Just before 10pm, he was driving his rented Toyota north on the Shenandoah Highway, State Highway 65, near Murchison. The area of rural highway has a 100-kilometre-per-hour speed limit, has no lighting and frequent corners."
Ah, he thought he was on Skyline drive.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude, loud, and stupid Americans. What else’s new?
For what it is worth, Americans do not have a monopoly on poor tourist behaviour. Chinese tourists are usually both loud and disrespectful when visiting sacred sites in the UK. The loudest tourists I have ever heard on the Tube were Italian. And so on…