Ranch dressing. On everything. Visitors plan smuggling operations for the flight home.
#1
Seen something abroad you loved — or hated — compared to home?
Anything others do better — or worse. One box. No fuss.
Got it! Thank you 🧡
A real human (me) reads every entry before it goes live. Yours is in the queue. It gets emptied about once a week, so there’s not much point checking back tomorrow.
*Well — not one by one, exactly. A real human (still me) does download every single entry by hand, skims the pile for anything that names names, and deletes those. Then the same human (yes, still me) manually pastes what’s left into an AI chat. I’m too europoor for a proper backend with live API calls, so it’s bulk copy-paste into the free plan of GPT Haiku Nano 1.5 Flash-Lite instead, and then I hope for the best.
if that was an accident — no trace, no hard feelings. Simply back in the box.
From the wall
No air conditioning. A heatwave in a European hotel is a character-building experience.
#2
Luggage forwarding. Your suitcase gets its own ticket. And arrives before you.
#3
Tipping. Minimum 20% expected, screen flipped toward you. Now even at self-service counters. And it’s spreading.
#4
Free refills. Order one soda, drink six. The cup is a lifetime commitment.
#5
Bidets even in the scrappiest hotel rooms. One week there and you’re checking shipping costs.
#6