I am a lollipop for directed tours. I like to intensify Cliffsnots for a place. In ninety minutes, both Rome gave me a sense of achievement, even when the suspension of the automatic sound of the tourist bus came out of synchronization, which means that the Pope lived in the Trevi fountain. One day I was a sponsor through the prohibited city of Beijing with the voice of Roger Moore, coming from a faltering tape recorder; During my visit to the ruins of Tiotihukan, outside Mexico City, her blogging was canceled to Basilica with the mantle of the Virgin of Guadalobi, which we saw from the mobile sidewalk. It looked like a dry cleaning blouse still covered with plastic. You are fascinated by learning, therefore, some Herodotus is the father of travel guide. It can be said that his account in the fifth century of Egypt has invented the model, and even included the mandatory section in the general comfort rooms: “[The Egyptians] Ethics and customs create for themselves in a way against other men in almost all matters. . . Women make water standing and men run. “
Until recently, though, I didn’t have to be a tourist in the city where I lived for forty years-which is New York, who got nearly sixty-five million visitors in 2024. So, during a short period, I went in seven directed rounds. I have learned a lot of facts that I am practically walking in New York City, with a useful supplement that narrates some of the fun things that you can say at cocktail parties.
The options were useful. Among the tours that I did not get are “Sham” Booshwick “and” Death in New York “, and one of the Illis Island Hospital, which the tourist must wear solid caps, and takes place through the wings of infectious and infectious Seros, anti -bodies, and the corpse anatomy room. Thousands of basalt columns that were formed in the volcanic output of the sea), “deserves vision, yes; But do not deserve to go. “
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My tour started on the rounds on February morning. For three hours, I was wandering on the streets of Hossidik Williamsburg with two Swiss sisters, two gay couple married to Argentina, a Lebanese Jewish woman who now lives in New York, two friends from Romania, and a French man living in England with his mother (Fraida tours include, $ 99, nose). Ferida Vezl, our Sakron, we have, in the village of Kirias Joel at UPSTATE UPSTATE UPSTATE. (“It is a different planet,” she said.) Fifteen years ago, when she was twenty -five years old, she left the community for a secular life, and took her five -year -old son. From the outside that knows the ways of the familiar, the amphibious for tourist guides. It has two hundred and sixty -four video clip on YouTube, on topics ranging from female head shaving to sex on the wedding night, which saw millions of times; I have seen 2.3 million Tiktok on Kosher phones (i.e. FLIP phones or smartphones free of browser that cannot access social media, broadcast or games).
Vizel, Pert, was a small blonde, his face was partially hidden by sunglasses, scarf, and ski cap, as a fountain of Hasidic. Among the three Jewish neighborhoods of Hasidi in Brooklyn, Vizel told us, Williamzburg is the “most amichely”. It meant the most isolated. In reference to the squatting building across the street from a luxurious high -rise, where Justin Bieber used to live, I asked: “Does anyone know about the architectural details that this is the home of Hasidik’s apartment?” Answer: The balconies are arranged in an overlapping pattern, so that the terrace is not on one floor directly higher or below the balcony on another. Why? SUKKOT monitoring, a week -long fall vacation, states that you should eat all meals in an open sky. (“Camping, Vapi Christmas meets,” We stopped at the Brachsoni shirts, a pickled pick-down store that only carries chimneys of men identical to men, and then we stopped in front of the Borough Park-run-up, but it was operated by a private company and is often used. In 2011, the line was investigated by the point to make women sit in the back. The official aspect, the base does not exist, but, according to Vizel, any female passenger should be dared to sit in advance with males in the vicinity.
My favorite stop in the tour was a diversified store called Lee Avenue Photo – specifically, the games section. Vizel explained how it reflects a variety of games for family values: for example, instead of Princess dolls, there are brides. The “Children’s Break” of mini dolls includes a single -faced children from the face and nine young children, which is three more offspring than Angelina Jolie. Boys, what about the “hats store”? Five male dolls are blocked with seven different caps, each of which is worn by the various members of the Jewish diaspora – and the hat brush and a box. Given, Kane?
If there are Michelin tours stars, then it will get three. One of the most prominent fried LOX fried Lox was on the bread we presented in Williamsburg Bagel, where we met Michael Stoesel, who helps his friends manage the store, and works as a diamond severing.
The “New Amsterdam remains”, which lasted for two hours, and an archaeological colony on the seventeenth century colony, which has become Manhattan, has started on the steps of the National Museum of the American Indians, near the battery (Useless New York, $ 39). Four hundred years ago, in this place, the Dutch began building Fort Amsterdam to keep the indigenous people (and the English) out. Our guide, Mandy Edgkumb, a trained geologist and has a background in archeology who is also a former garden guard on Elos Island, on the tour by periodically withdrawing the elements from her messenger bag, Mary Popins. It started by polluting the giant oyster shell. (According to some biologists, ten hundred, half of the oysters in the world in New York Port, some of which were so great that their shells were the size of the professional basketball player shoes) A copy of a new map of Amsterdam drew in 1660 by the public surveyor in the New Netherlands. Edgkumb explained that when the British took control of Amsterdam, in 1664, the general director of the colony, Peter Stowvent, could not join anyone in resisting the invasion. “In the end, he received a ninety -three -year -old message from the town,” Edgakumb told us. He said, “Please calm. We do not give shit from New Amsterdam. “It continued,” “The Patty Hearst Story Precived!) Edgecombe took advantage of a little historical trivia that pleased me: Lenape was called” old women “by the neighboring Aerokua, whom they considered very nice.
At the beginning of Rock Monnet “East Village Rock N’s Punk” tour (47 dollars), our guide said: “I am your host, Boby Ben, and I thought I would tell you that I made this name, because the majority of the people I will talk about today have the theater names – all Ramons, Dylan, Boy. I thought, What is the right of hell, man, I will go with the flow, right? “Pinn, who said he works in marketing and sales in various signs from 1990 to 2010, speaks with a comfortable rhythm of radio broadcaster late at night and who needs to be inhaled only once a hour. He said,” Work), but if I have two guesses, I will say “sixty -three, but it seems that fifty -three” or “fifty -three but it seems that sixty -three.” “O comrades, have any favorite teams?” Pinn and my colleagues asked me on a tour.
