Pet hates when travelling

zagfles

Doshwaster wrote: »

The most amusing things about these overseas "English" pubs are the menus. They are full of things like ham and cheese toasties, beans on toast and egg and chips. When did you last see those available in a pub here - sometime around 1980?

To be fair, there are Indian and Chinese resturants all over the world so that's not really a British thing.

Yes, though doubt you'd get 5 Indians and 5 Chinese restaurants in a typical Turkish village! The point was these were packed - far more popular than the two excellent Turkish restaurants. There were also pizza/pasta places which were packed too.

Was talking to someone a few years ago who's just got back from a holiday in Mexico. I mentioned I'd like to go there, and that I love Mexican food. In her two weeks there, she'd only eated Mexican food once, and that was when the hotel had a "Mexican night!!". This I couldn't get my head around, on a holiday in Mexico a hotel has to have a special Mexican night?? Surely every night is a Mexican night when you're on holiday there?? Apparently not - you wouldn't even know what country you're in most of the time at some of these AI places!

lady1964

On the theme of food, here's my pet peeves:

In Barbados 9 years ago, met an English woman who complained that she couldn't get a cheeseburger at the hotel - I wanted to say 'you're in Barbados love, what about the fresh fish and local food?' instead I told her there was a burger place a short walk away.

Those who complain, at AI's overseas that there are no chips....

Off the food subject, same English woman in Barbados complained bitterly that her bedspread didn't match the curtains in her room. Seriously? oh dear........

Bob_the_Saver

lady1964 wrote: »

English woman in Barbados complained bitterly that her bedspread didn't match the curtains in her room. Seriously? oh dear........

Compensation called for here.

zagfles

lady1964 wrote: »

On the theme of food, here's my pet peeves:

In Barbados 9 years ago, met an English woman who complained that she couldn't get a cheeseburger at the hotel - I wanted to say 'you're in Barbados love, what about the fresh fish and local food?' instead I told her there was a burger place a short walk away.

Those who complain, at AI's overseas that there are no chips....

Off the food subject, same English woman in Barbados complained bitterly that her bedspread didn't match the curtains in her room. Seriously? oh dear........

:rotfl:really pathetic! On the subject of chips I really don't understand the British obsession with them, yes they're nice with cod and mushy peas once a week, but I know people at work who have chips every day, and people who go on holiday and have chips every day :eek:

I think we must have the only kids in the UK who don't actually like chips! We stopped ordering off the kids menus when ours were about 5, after going to a pub where every kids meal had chips, even the pizza!!

Bob_the_Saver

After reading that, I just fancy some chips now, haven't had any since last year.
Nobody makes them like my mother though - thank god.
Black and brittle!

Delree

I don't like travel snobs who sneer at others for not trying local dishes or emersing themselves into the local culture. Get over yourselves.

Gloomendoom

zagfles wrote: »

:rotfl:really pathetic! On the subject of chips I really don't understand the British obsession with them, yes they're nice with cod and mushy peas once a week, but I know people at work who have chips every day, and people who go on holiday and have chips every day :eek:

I think we must have the only kids in the UK who don't actually like chips! We stopped ordering off the kids menus when ours were about 5, after going to a pub where every kids meal had chips, even the pizza!!

Chips were a treat when I grew up. My dad used to moan that cooking them stank the house out so we hardly ever got to eat them. Perhaps twice a year, if we were lucky.

As a result, I've grown up to regard chips as an exotic food to be indulged on special occasions.

zagfles

Delree wrote: »

I don't like travel snobs who sneer at others for not trying local dishes or emersing themselves into the local culture. Get over yourselves.

It's not so much "snobbery" (ok maybe there's a bit of that), it's more incredulity at why such people bother to travel. Why would you spend hundreds or thousands to go somewhere else if you just want to do what you do at home?

Or if you want to spend your holiday somewhere hot sitting round a pool reading a book eating ice cream and drinking cocktails, fair enough, but why bother travelling to places like the Caribbean or Mexico when you could go somewhere like Spain for probably half the cost and travel time? There's probably an element of "snobbery" to that - Cancun sounds better than Benidorm when people ask you where you went on holiday

aileth

Delree wrote: »

I don't like travel snobs who sneer at others for not trying local dishes or emersing themselves into the local culture. Get over yourselves.

Why bother spending hundreds flying to a different country/culture to feast on egg and chips and down a pint of Carling? You can do it for much cheaper at Bognor Regis or Brighton in summer, and there's none of that silly 'local culture' to try and avoid.

mcfisco

aileth wrote: »

Why bother spending hundreds flying to a different country/culture to feast on egg and chips and down a pint of Carling? You can do it for much cheaper at Bognor Regis or Brighton in summer, and there's none of that silly 'local culture' to try and avoid.

Not sure about that,
I have to go to Brighton for a wedding in June, the cost of the hotel for 4 nights, and train fares are more than the flights and hotel for a 7 day trip to Tenerife I'm taking in July.
I've been to Brighton before, there's definitely 'local culture'