How to talk the talk

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June 12th 2011

Published: June 12th 2011

I would like to share with you something I think every backpacker has experienced, and experienced a multiple of times. Indeed if you are still on the road you are experiencing it as we speak. It is the standard conversation between two random traveller's anywhere in the world. Perhaps the only traveller's out there who might not know about it are those true adventurers, the unique ones ... Read Full Entry

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Shangri-La

Flag bearer

Shangri-La

Riding along with a flag

Shangri-La

And riding along with a fag

Getting ready

Tibetan dancing

Fur hat

Gossiping

Archery competition

Ladies posing for a photo

Big hat

Start of the gorge

Houses along the way

Path through bamboo

It was rather deep

Scenery shot

Brown river at the bottom

Tiger Leaping Gorge

Waterfall

Tiger Leaping Gorge

Close up of the waterfall

Dali

Street in Dali

Dali

Market

Dali

Blue and white seemed to be the theme in Dali

12th June 2011

EdVallance
Edward Adrian-Vallance

Awesome blog
fascinating blog, original and honest. The first one of this year which will stick in my mind until the time for blog of the year nominations!

12th June 2011

Jenny Adams
non-member comment

miss you Ralf(ffff)
Tibet looks amazing! i really want to go there. Great blog post by the way See you in southeast asia in the fall, yes?

12th June 2011

zuzuzu72
zuzuzu72

This is so true of everywhere you go, well put, I won't ask where you are off to next.

12th June 2011

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Funny blog.
You are very creative and we've enjoyed this blog. You'll become famous with this one!

12th June 2011

2Brothers3Continents
Claudio e Fernando

Well done!
you just managed to sumarize the hole backpackers hostel conversation in one blog!! Don't forget the "are you on facebook?" hahaha BTW where do i klick in the "like it" Travel safe Fernando

12th June 2011

fateundermined
hana badando

So true
I was actually chuckling while reading this one, coming back from a recent trip -- again just a pretext to say I came back from one ;). I swear I've memorized all my answers to all those questions. Thanks for writing about "the talk."

12th June 2011

aspiringnomad
Jason

Sometimes the most interesting cultures are our own
I’ve actually been reading similar discussions doing the rounds this past week on T’Internet. Love what this reveals about you, and in the process, says so much about a culture - now inevitably carrying through into certain trends in the blogosphere, and travelblog - as exemplified by the comment made by Ed.

12th June 2011

Linn
non-member comment

So true!
Hi Ralfie, that is so true but not only for travellers. We all do it. Doesn't everybody enjoy a captive audience? And for some of us an audience is all that matters, captive or not!!

12th June 2011

Wanderly Wagon
Wanderly Wagon

Very true!

13th June 2011

His Dudeness
Ralf Kreuze

Thanks to all!
I guess this blog hit a nerve. We all recognize it, don't we? It actually came about whilst talking with a Croatian traveller, after I apologized to him for having to listen to my 'clinical trial' story for the umpteenth time. One thing led to another and we started talking about how the conversations we have with new travellers is always the same. And so I thought it deserved a blog of its own. Next up the general backpacker world, with its banana-pancakes, beers, backpacks with flags on them and so forth ;) Nah just kidding, I will just return to my normal mundane blogs, I can't handle the pressure of all this praise!

14th June 2011

Rat on the Road
Kris and Kate

Great blog
Really hits home. Perhaps all backpackers should carry some sort of information card with all the key information on it - kinda like a business card.

14th June 2011

Martha
non-member comment

Chit chats
Right on, Ralf. It does get tiresome saying and hearing the very same things again and again. Sometimes I just tell a bunch of lies; it gives me a quick. By the way to the question "where are you from?" my answer very often is: Andorra. Not many people know that tiny country. Happy travels, Martha

19th June 2011

TouristTim
Timothy

Wait a Second!
I find this all a bit too contradictory! So first you whine that everyone is asking questions to talk about them self and then when you actually get asked a question where you have to talk you start getting tired of it. Also I find this depressingly well rehearsed, literally I remember you spouting your guinea pig monologue word for word in 3rd Dormitory!

19th June 2011

His Dudeness
Ralf Kreuze

I am a contradiction!
Ah Tim, so right, so right. And of course you know my guinea pig story, it hasn't changed, it never will. I know it by heart and so I put it down by heart so all can see it. And I believe I shall be spouting this monologue until I stop being a guinea pig. Despite all this I do at times get very tired of it, especially when I am travelling with somebody for longer and they have to hear it as well, over and over again. I feel I sound like a record player with a scratch in it.

16th December 2011

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deleted_49612

This blog is a 2011 TravelBlog favourite!
Check this out, and feel free to add favourites of your own. :) http://www.travelblog.org/Topics/30521-1.html

24th December 2011

Beata and Tomek
us At Home Abroad

great one;-)
and so true by the way ;-)

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