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I love American tourists! Please don't be offended, I have met some very intelligent and wise USA tourists, but there is 'another sort'. I remember wandering behind two American grockles (tourists) in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter listening to their running commentary of the Prehistoric gallery. They passed the desplays of palaeolithic hand axes at a brisk walking pace, the parents exclaiming to their bored child "Wow! Wow! Wow! Some of these are hundreds of years old!"
All the implements where over 10,000 years old...
This is the sort of people I was put in mind of when I found out why the biggest hits I get on this blog includes the following -
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It turns out some American actor came to Dartmoor on his honeymoon in the 1980's, and went to Widdecombe where he encountered lots of quiet people in black looking sad. Strangely he didn't think - 'oh, a funeral', but 'oh, the entire town is haunted'. Having heard in the next village of the collapse of Widdecombe church tower he naturally concluded that all the inhabitants where dead ghosts... 30 years on and he has included his experiences in a TV documentary!
Another little bit for today - My wife overheard a grandmother at our child's playgroup that a certain village near here was "the last village that God built". Unfortunately she has forgotten what village it was!
And one last thing - please excuse this little bit of administrative help I need - could I ask if anyone can see any adverts (besides my 'Perpetual Calendars for Sale')?
Oh, and there was an earthquake today, centered on Bovey Tracey!]
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