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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Italy. I’ve seen tourists (probably american by the looks and the words) cheering and in awe because, in cities, there are free public drinkable water fountains.
UK here. Various right-wing governments have discouraged and torn out almost all the public drinking fountains on the basis they were being used by the homeless (they were also being used by everyone else, but ignore that bit). I’ve not seen much of Italy outside Rome but the water fountains there are amazing; just a simple gesture of mutual respect between humans.
American here, I was over the moon when I visited Amsterdam and everywhere (even in stores) had water fountains that not only had clean drinking water to refill water bottles, but where so prominently displayed (we hide ours by the bathrooms, if we have any), and most where very artistic or at the very least matching the aesthetic of the store.
I did that in Ulm!! Fountain i took water from
People coming up staring for 15 minutes!!
Then i walk away and they, like a scared animal, walks up to the fountain and checked it out from all angles and took a sip.