Tourist in my own town
We have a friend staying with us for a week, and we are not on holiday. This means most of our free time will be spent being nice hosts and showing things around here to her.
It's a lot of fun though because we are being tourists in our own land too and we don't do it that often.
Isn't it weird how we don't pay much attention to the things that are around us everyday? I mean, we know those things yet we are so used to them that we don't even enjoy it anymore.
All this sightseing will mean also less time for posting and for reading other people's blogs, but I'll catch up later and I'll have a few fresh pictures to post.
It's a lot of fun though because we are being tourists in our own land too and we don't do it that often.
Isn't it weird how we don't pay much attention to the things that are around us everyday? I mean, we know those things yet we are so used to them that we don't even enjoy it anymore.
All this sightseing will mean also less time for posting and for reading other people's blogs, but I'll catch up later and I'll have a few fresh pictures to post.
posted by DCveR at 8:10 AM
8 Comments:
Precisement.
I am from Agra (the town of Taj Mahal)and I have seen it only twice in my life. Perhaps we take, whatever comes to us naturally, for granted.
I love being a tourist in my own town. It's fun. Feels like I'm on a holiday too. Have fun!!!
Recently I did an article on German exchange students visiting our college. Despite the fact that I live in a tourist town with several tourist towns nearby, I always think of home as being boring. Thanks to those guys (and they were HOT model material) I was able to enjoy the following sights as if it was the first time again: musical fountain, rodeo, amusement park, the beach, go-cart riding etc. Let's just say,a good time was had by all. Here's to you having a grand time enjoying your hometown as if it was the first time! Yah-hoooo! (cowgirl yell)
Isn't that the truth. I didn't see much of the NYC sights until I moved away and went back to visit.
Have fun making new discoveries.
So true! I just took a week off and stayed in my own town. I checked out the beach, shops and restaurants I'd never been to. It was fab!
anoop: I'd love to visit Agra
GG: the problem is I don't have that much free time, but Good Half is taking some time off to guide our friend around
tacit: we always learn to appreciate better after missing something
bunnyjo: right, it seems those weren't the only sights you appreciated...'hot model material'! Shame on you!!!:P
bent: one thing scary about those new discoveries - we already saw things that changed in the last couple of years and we hadn't even noticed, although those things are right in front of our eyes every day.
bees knees: a week off now would be great! I've only spent a couple of days in San Francisco (your town, right?) and it seemed to me I could have spent there at least a couple of weeks and do all kinds of different things every day.
A summer three years ago I was too broke to travel anywhere, so I ended up with three weeks of tourism, with guidied tours and all, here in Oslo. It was grand as I suddenly know the local story of the whole town... Awesome and unpayable:)
Sam exact phenomenom here in Hawaii... the only exception is if the volcano is flowing well, then we have to beeline down for a midnight view!
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