Hope this helps if you are planning a trip here. When the vendors want your attention, it is rarely...hello, how are you today? but ...you come in my shop, you buy something from me. Eventually it wears away the happy tourist veneer that we have and we get very frustrated and annoyed. Even in the middle of a conversation in a restaurant, a woman will approach us...you want cigarettes, postcards, gum, silk paintings, whistle, sunglasses, bread rolls, donuts, pastries, beads?... anything that is classed as totally useless to carry around while travelling and then you get home and think "why did I buy this crap?" and then think..."I'll give that to someone as a gift, probably Sue in accounts, maybe she'll lighten up when I want something next time." There is no getting away from the
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