The ugly tourist (and how not to be one)
I’m going to be brutally frank. Many Americans find their trips to Europe suffer because they’re treated like “ugly tourists.” But those who are treated like ugly tourists are treated that way because they are ugly tourists. They aren’t bad people, just ethnocentric (and there are plenty of tourists from other countries who also qualify as “ugly”).
Brazil borders on 10 other countries. On the South American continent, only Chile and Ecuador don’t share a border with Brazil.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 496th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. (Approaching 500! We must be doing something right.)
I’ve got a lot to cover this month, so I’ll get right to it.
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Starting sometime in late February, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) quietly changed the way its agents perform pat-downs in airport security lines.
Mount Logan, Canada’s highest mountain, located in Yukon territory’s southwest, was named for Sir William Logan, founder of the Geological Survey of Canada.
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My taxi awaited below the tall column topped with the gilded statue of St. George slaying the dragon in Tbilisi’s Freedom Square.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 495th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.
Villa Romana del Casale
Fraser Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the coast of Queensland, Australia, is the world’s largest sand island, at 74 miles long and 18 miles wide. It’s the only known place on Earth where rainforests thrive on top of sand dunes.
Namibia was originally a German colony and called, from 1884 to 1915, South-West Africa. From 1915 until independence in 1990, it was governed by South Africa.
