Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Summertime in England

Thanks to the people at Freedom Week, I'm going to Cambridge! I might stay for the month of July and travel around a bit. Now I just need a smaller camera:

Indeed, solitary travelers conjured up an entirely different reaction than a group of Americans, who were perceived as camera-wielding, Bush-supporting boors. “Universally idiotic; large Hawaiian shirts; large cameras; stupid questions,” says Ian Clifford, a software developer from Nottingham, ticking off the stereotypical qualities of a group of average American tourists. And, says Clifford, these are the more cultured members of U.S. society: “Only 10 percent of Americans have passports. What on earth have you left behind?”

1 comment:

Max said...

Congrats, dude!

And based on the website's pics, it looks like the participants are not nearly as spectacularly lame as I would expect.

See you at the 'roo.