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?
Pic unrelated.
Sure, ride one, but is it an emotional experience to see a motorized vehicle on tracks arrive in a metro station?
If you’re not used to it, the subway can be a really novel experience. The metro is also an interesting part of Montreal’s history for tourists - it’s relationship to Expo 67, the development of RÉSO, the kind of things that can lend more interest for someone learning about the city. Plus the station designs are pretty neat.
Source: One of those tourists who loves the metro in Montreal. + trains in general are dope.
Don’t you realize that people who are waiting for the train are not actually in public and don’t expect, or want, to be in your dumb pictures?
edit: here are the rules https://www.stm.info/en/about/business-zone/partnerships-and-permissions/activities-taking-photos-and-shooting-videos
“Neither STM employees nor métro users are filmed or photographed.”
I don’t want to be in pictures and it would be within my rights to ask you to stop but I have better things to do.
I admit that tourists anywhere often have piss poor situational awareness, and are often rude re: how they go about taking pictures.
Doesn’t mean someone can’t take a picture of a train pulling in without violating the rules though (off-peak times, cropped angles, etc.). Fuck anyone carelessly or deliberately taking pictures of folks on the platform without permission, though. I agree with you there and know it’s probably common, which sucks.
Well, it wasn’t so much the legalities, I just saw a gaggle of tourists waiting on the platform with huge anticipation for the metro to pull into the station, like they’ve never seen a train or a tunnel. Yet, if I may use my racism for good, they seemed to be from a far away land, so they flew here, how many pictures did they take of the flying train?
It just seemed out of proportion to the banality of a mundane situation, and they were snapping away, and I do not want to be immortalized as a sad, fat middle-aged man, where were these people when I was 25 and a movie star?
According to my 6 year old that’s a definite yes!