Feeling like a Tourist

Perhaps I am overly sensitive but I find being asked where to go “for a piss” to be a little abrasive. Especially since it was reviled that I was asked with the presumption I was Swedish. Its unfortunate I was asked by someone from the States, as I already regard Americans as poor travellers, just as some Australians are … Aussie Aussie Aussie. Words can’t describe the shame I feel hearing those words abroad. I understand its an unfair judgement as its always the indiscreet tourists that make them self know. This one enforced the point that he “… really had to piss”, so I suggested the nearby musseet.

As dazzling as Stockholm is, I feel more like a tourist here then anywhere else I have been. I constantly find my self surrounded by people walking blinded by awkwardly large city maps. Which reminds me that I too must be in a tourist trap.