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Mainstream holidays are not enjoyable (lemmy.zip)
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Paris, Venice, Disneyland are not enjoyable destinations anymore. They're packed with people blocking the way to take a stupid picture for social media. It's so narcissistic, you're not there to admire the art in museums or the architecture but to take a picture of yourself next to it 🫩

The worst part? That other non mainstream locations are also getting packed with people every year because of these people sharing it on social media. Slovenia, a country that's supposed to have modest tourism is now full of people that are making the bus services crash because they're not prepared for this amount of tourists

You'd think the heat waves in Europe would hinder tourism but for some reason there's still even more people coming every year. I swear that if I hear another German tourist speak with that goofly deep voice of theirs I'm going to crash out.

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[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Australians call both holidays, but it hardly comes up, if we're talking about a named holiday like Easter or Christmas. It's only like this when someone is talking about one of the two categories ambiguously that it would be nice to have two words

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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