Most big tourist attractions are BS

The Trevi Fountain is a crock of Horse manure. Don't get mad at me for saying it, get mad at all the people lying about how great it is. The fountain pictured is not the Trevi fountain but ill discuss that in a second. 
The Trevi fountain is artistically very cool, sure ill give it that, but ya know what its not. A good fountain. Its got this piddly little stream of water that doesn't even look that interesting. I've seen cooler fountains in Houston and Houston is the armpit of Texas, nothing in Houston is cooler than something else. Its like if one of the paintings in the Sistine chapel was worse than a painting in a high school in Dallas. I feel cheated.
Regardless, the fountain to the left i found in a random Piazza in Rome that i can no longer remember the name of but i think that's even more damming, because this fountain was an order of magnitude more interesting. It had better water spouts, I could actually get close enough to look at the carvings, and it wasn't as crowded as a bar that doesn't check Id's. 
I'm mad, how many attractions did i go to in Italy that were also strait up mid because tourist don't know what good art is?
Like now im rethinking everything i saw in Rome. what if it was all lame and i just don't know because i never got the chance to see the truly cool stuff. 
I'm not gonna cry over it, that be lame, but the point still stands. Don't trust what the tourist say, go ask a local and they'll direct you to some obscure attraction that is 10x as stunning as the regular tourist BS. 



 

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