HowVisitorsAffectYourViewOfPlace

I have no gun, but I can spit

W.H. Auden's punchline on personal space applies, if not as vehemently, to the cluttered outer ramparts of my life. Once the barbarians pass the gate, nothing is quite the same. I don't like to think I'm a curmudgeon, but I might be wrong ... [Personal/Space] -- P.

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[Feathers of Hope] Davis, California is not a tourist destination...

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[Mulubinba Moments] Visitors can affect my view of place positively or negatively.....

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[Mulubinba Moments (Geoff)] Forty years ago, visitors to Australia were rare and celebrity visitors even more so. It was common for foreign celebrities to be swarmed by jounalists in the arrivals lounge at Sydney Airport. And wincingly predictable was the question “What do you think of Australia?”. Vivian Leigh in 1948 famously replied "I can't see it, you're standing in my way." But our nation's attitude to visitors is changing...

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[alembic] Not long ago, I saw a group of people milling by the vegetable stand at Woodlands Market, fingering the organic quinces and star fruits, only to discover that they were recent arrivals from Russia on a tour with the relative who made it good in America. It was well past six o’clock, so the shoppers were the “locals,” the residents of this leafy corner of Marin. The touring relatives were babbling and oohing and aahing and calling out to each other as they started to wonder off among the aisles in search of more edible curios. The host and seemingly proud tour guide started scrambled every which way to try to herd his charge back together again, and, as I caught the look in his eyes, I saw something familiar in them.

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[CassandraPages] My earliest memory of being “visited” was a parents’ day in grade school...

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[London and the North] I realise now there is a world of difference between being with visitors to London and visitors to Yorkshire....

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