I’ve only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they’re just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I’d be taking for granted?
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To answer OP’s question, I’m American but spent a few years in the UK. Things that fascinated me included:
The history. Jesus fuck, it’s the history. I swear in the south we talk about things from the 1920s like that shit is ancient. Meanwhile in the UK you’re just casually staying at a hotel that was built in the 1600s.
Yes, the amount of ancient history anywhere across the pond is fascinating. You’re walking in the same place as people from books and movies. I guess that we’re writing somewhere near the beginning of the local historical record is interesting in it’s own way, but there’s just not as much to say about it.
When I was a kid I got in the local library and looked at their copies of the maps of our city going back maybe 2000 years. A few things had been there that long, the high street and the cathedral, couple of other places. You could see how the town had grown, and sometimes contracted - it got hit hard a few times by plague, fire, and war. The maps didn’t go back further but the place had been occupied much longer, way before the Romans came.