Quotes About Sightseeing

We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' and 'through' and go somewhere else. The result is they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl.

Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.

My first Eurotrip, I want to fly into London and take a train to all the traditional must-see cities.

I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

The traveler sees what he sees," wrote G. K. Chesterton in the 1920s, "the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The focus of the camera remains majorly on own face rather than food while making video, yet brazenly they say it is Food Vlogging ; even when they show more own looks in the video frame than sightseeing places, still surprisingly they say it is Travel Vlogging. People are so self-centered.

souvenir tablecloths bearing images of the Acropolis,

George Vines felvitt a tornya tetejébe, ahol az áruló Cooke feje van kit?zve, meg Harrisoné a Westminster Hall másik oldalán. Innen jól láttam ?ket, és a szép londoni panorámát is.

What Dad means by "see" of course, is "drive past at 67 miles per hour." Dad feels it is a foolish waste of valuable vacation time to get out of the car and actually go look at an attraction.

Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.

I came to San Antonio, and it's known for the River Walk. So I was just doing some sightseeing, I looked at the bridge and I thought, 'Man, if I do a flip off this bridge, that would be super-cool.' I don't recommend anybody jump off that bridge.

In her childhood, the grass was green. There were cleats and freshly laundered jerseys with silly team names and sliced oranges on the sideline. And to see the differences, to find these beautiful boys worthy of curiosity, of examination—it's the core of her chosen profession but it feels like human sightseeing. A tour of others. Look at these poor boys, happy despite everything.

Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.

Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once—not oftener.

Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw—whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam—felt simply like a name on a list that I needed to check off.

Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a box I'd needed to tick on a list.

Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a box I'd needed to tick on a list. - Lou Clark

I've been to three different islands in the Maldives, and the Caribbean was relaxing, although my holidays are always peppered with some sport, sightseeing, or diving.

Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option.

My wife is a much better tourist than me.

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.