Sorry, I'll have to agree with Merlijn here, you sound a bit naive.
I have been cheated too. But, heh, we're tourists, we don't speak arabic, we have quite a lot of money compared to the people we had to deal with... you should have expected that !
2008/7/28 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org:
Congratulations, that measured a 0.1 on the sarcasm scale.
I'm 39, on my third passport, and no longer live in the country I was born and grew up in. If you took all the miles I've flown and stitched them together you could probably get to the moon and back.
I know what a travel guide is, and I also know how they sugar-coat things so potential tourists don't run away screaming.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Merlijn van Deen Sent: 28 July 2008 21:06 To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Comments
2008/7/28 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org:
I suppose the key point to take from the gripes Majorly and I have posted
is
that you need input from people outwith the hosting country. People who
have
visited the country as tourists and can comment on where and how there
will
be attempts to take advantage of you.
Yeah. That's called a travel guide.
--valhallasw
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