Being a tourist in your home town / city

[Hill Wimp]

I moved back home to Deal 3yrs ago after being away for 26yrs. I'm still enjoying visiting the local landmarks.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I'm not sure I ever feel like I'm a tourist. I feel the same visiting somewhere from the house as visiting somewhere whilst away. This week we've been enjoying a staycation at home, so far we've enjoyed trips to Dawyck, Melrose, New Lanark, and Newtongrange Mining Museum.

 

[oldwheels]

I have lived in the same town for 45 years which is now a tourist dependent place. So many newcomers have come here and taken over so many local jobs that I now feel like a stranger in what I regard as my own community. When I go to say doctors surgery I practically have to produce photo ID before I am allowed in. This happens regularly. I am not so much a tourist but a stranger.

 

[s7ephanie]

I havent been back in uk for years, so would fel like tourist, used to live in Greece, (wish i still did) and hated tourist season ! Bloody forigners taking up the beach !

 

[biggs682]

i keep thinking about opening or offering conducted bike tours around the Boro but the only issue i can see is how many people would want one ?

Even @Drago and @PeteXXX dont venture in

 

[Globalti]

I was born in that London so every time I go there I'm a tourist in my own city.

The hospital where I was born is now a hostel for the homeless.

https://www.francisfrith.com/uk/london/london-the-princess-beatrice-hospital-c1950_l1305507

 

[JasD]

Edinburgh is ok to visit, but definitely not in August.

Living in Edinburgh in August is much worse. (For getting anywhere at least, culturally it's good fun )

 

[Sandra6]

We quite often do touristy things, visit the castle, museum etc.
I don't understand people who travel but completely ignore the gems on their own doorstep.

 

[Katherine]

You make a good point. We tend to seek out local museums and landmarks when on holiday or visiting a new place but are less likely to seek out the ones on our doorstep. On googling Manchester's tourist attractions, I notice that I have seen 9 out of the top 12 but only half of the top 20. There are some lesser museums, galleries and libraries that I really should visit... one day!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

When I go back to the town where I grew up I see the new buildings, I see the empty spaces but I'm damned if I can remember what used to stand there.

When I go to the small market town were I was born and lived until I was 3 or 4, I get strange feelings of deja vu because the centre hasn't really changed much in 50 years.