What do Russian foreign tourists want to see and buy?
The subject of this article came up accidentally when foreigners stopped me on the street and tried for a long time to find out where the nearest detoxification center to the city was located with the help of language and gestures.
I don’t understand at first why they need such a specific organization? At first, he suggested that they want to “pass” the drunken sleep guide in him. But I could not help them. You know your reason – medical detoxifiers have long disappeared across Russia. I tried to explain to the visitors in great and powerful English. It’s useless – they don’t understand. He changed German – the same zero effect.
I still don’t know where they came from and what their mother tongue is. But when they started pointing fingers at cameras and camcorders and then pointing to a sleeping guide for shooting on the face – what I guessed by the gestures and facial expressions. Well, of course! For them, Russia is a country of universal intoxication, where men often do not sleep at home but have a guard in a special institution. How could foreign tourists go through such ecstasies! And then I savagely regretted that I didn’t take such a lucrative business niche, didn’t open my private think tank, and didn’t even make money on a piece of white bread with caviar from a well-to-do organization. Jo ridiculously, but my friend After my “request” described above on the street, I now voluntarily believe in friend stories. I admit, at first, I realized his stories after taking the only solid-liquid for stories invented for fun.
Incredibly, Western tourists who come to Russia have an idea about us and us – mostly “popular.” At the level of some comics. No, of course, they know that the world’s first astronaut is Yuri Gagarin, we have the longest railroad, the scattered cranberries are actually very few… they voluntarily try Russian food, take a steam bath with birch broom in a bathhouse and taste Russian vodka in the castle They buy wooden souvenir spoons… but in addition to the “program,” they want to see and capture images and videos that are not available in the West. What exactly is it about?
First cycle: “Give us a load!”
Oh, this Toptigin! How can she play the accordion and dance “Lady”? Okay, I saw it once in a circus. The accordion was not really there, but the bear jumped from side to side several times, immediately begging for sweets from the trainer. However, it is a circus bear trained. The zoo is in Mishka, away from everyone. And zoos with bears are a rarity. How do we convince foreign tourists that our bears do not roam the streets? More with Harmonica!
But try to explain it to a foreigner. He is one hundred percent sure of his innocence. And here’s the “iron” argument: in Egypt, they propose a camel to shoot against the backdrop of pyramids. So, in Russia, they are forced to arrange a shoot in a hug with the help of live bears. And how can anyone go back to their comrades in their homeland without a national image, always in a caftan and accordion, always standing on its hind legs in full-back growth? They do not understand and do not consider that he was greedy for money in selfies.
Second bike: “We want real bust shoes!”
When a friend told me this story, he didn’t believe me. The situation looks like a joke. What lightning boots and where? But the ninth part of the foreign guests is sure that the best shoes of Russia are very easily available in almost every village of ours. Why? It turns out that in our stores and in boutiques with souvenirs, these best shoes come in a variety of sizes: ceramic ashtrays, plaster “pockets” for small items, culinary spices, wooden kitchen table “retainers” for original chained bags, and “cabinets.” The fire was not found anywhere else. Craftsmen weave them long ago, partly because of And partly because our people prefer more practical shoes. However, it is very difficult for foreign tourists to understand. They came to Russia as foreigners and wanted to get it for their currency. Otherwise, gentlemen, Russians, are you fooling us and not making us look the most attractive? We want real bust shoes! Let them get fast! We’ve got everything at your travel agency’s rate… you won’t even eat cabbage soup with your bust shoes! The last argument is simply murderous, as it seems to them.
Third bike: “Everything can be bought from you, you fool!”
Once a ninth of foreign tourists in Russia are convinced that absolutely everything can be bought in our country, say, fool the Russian vanilla with a bill – and he will break it into a cake, but he must be happy. And when that doesn’t happen, they’re just wondering at the core. More specifically, they will be serviced by a travel agency but according to the price list and without the desired service. And for those who are ready to crawl below the waist, travel agency staff will look down on them. In the case of foreigners, such an image is beyond their comprehension. It turns out that not everything can be bought in Russia!
Additionally, if you hit the Russian in anything, sneeze at your notes. I admit that I don’t trust my friend on this bike either. Especially in the last “thesis.” Well, stupid, probably, Not extinct. Like a bad road. But so to say that someone has left the coin with the coin ?! However, it happens. I saw it the other day.
The taxi driver (when I got in the car with him) got out of the dirty-nosed steering wheel, opened the side door, and literally “threw” from the back seat. He snatched all the ashes from the cigarette, not on the ashtray, on the floor, believing that the driver of this kingdom had not seen it.