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    20 Ways You Can Spot An American Tourist From A Mile Away

    by SharonKurheg April 12, 2025
    by SharonKurheg April 12, 2025

    When my husband and I went to Austria in 2016, we stayed at the Goldener Hirsch in Salzburg. The most amazing thing happened when we arrived at check-in. We got …

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    LAPD Became “Ugly American Tourists” In France

    by SharonKurheg December 6, 2021
    by SharonKurheg December 6, 2021

    U.S. citizens have a reputation of being “ugly American tourists.” Not that citizens of other countries don’t have their own embarrassing moments when in another country (here are the nationalities …

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    What’s Up With All The Brazilian Tour Groups At Walt Disney World? (& Some Advice About Them)

    by SharonKurheg August 3, 2019
    by SharonKurheg August 3, 2019

    A daily part of tourism in ANY tourist area is tour groups. Whether the groups are from another state, another country or the church in the next town over, they …

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    If What Happened During Air Travel Was The Same In Real Life, Here’s How Awful it Would Be

    by SharonKurheg July 11, 2019
    by SharonKurheg July 11, 2019

    Every place you encounter has “social norms,” which are the behavioral rules that it’s assumed (or at least hoped) people will follow. Each place has its own sets of social …

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    Our Weekly Recap: 8/13/17 – 8/19/17

    by SharonKurheg August 19, 2017
    by SharonKurheg August 19, 2017

    Hi y’all and WOO HOO, it’s SATURDAY! Here’s a quick recap of our posts from the past week: Joe wrote about: What Priority Pass is and how you can get …

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