Tuesday, 2 July 2013

How to Freak Out Tourists

While writing up my Italy trip which you shall find below, I found in my notes this little list of things I created to, as the title suggests, confuse tourists.
Admittedly, I did not do all of these. But I did manage to get over half of them:

  • Pose for a picture, with no-one holding a camera anywhere near you
  • Stand in front of monuments and take lots of pictures in the other, wrong, direction
  • If possible, change your chosen language every now and then (Can also help to get away from the tourist street sellers. None of them seemed to know any Russian)
  • Audibly name every pigeon you see OR loudly tell them to get off the monuments
  • Pretend to be a tour guide and make up your own stories and legends (Just don't charge anything. You'll be sure to get a crowd and keep out of trouble)
  • Stride up to the front of a tour group and declare the guide a ghost
  • If possible, replicate whatever a tour guide is holding up in the air to direct their group, and stand ready at a T-junction
  • Look through your camera backwards
  • Point at a statue, loudly proclaim "I win, you blinked!" and carry on
  • Stare pointedly at an exit sign for a minute; then walk resolutely in the opposite direction
  • Use an audio guide as a phone; constantly ask them to speak up or if they're currently in a tunnel
And always, always remember the three Ps:
Photo-bomb, photo-bomb, photo-bomb.

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