A Modest Proposal for Eliminating Tourist Overcrowding
Feb 22 '00
Europe has too many tourists. We all know that. You can't get into The Louvre in summer without a battering ram or a long wait.
Of course, YentaKvetch has a solution to this problem.
You know all those bus tours of Europe. They are the main problem. All those sites to check off the list in three weeks so they can brag to their friends at home about what they saw. They don't see anything. They just rush about from place to place creating long queues--to the great annoyance of the independent travelers--all of whom think they are superior to the bus tourists. Of course, the independent travelers have the same lists and are checking off the same things. It just takes them longer because they spend hours trying to master the Thomas Cook Timetable and rushing about on trains.
Help is at hand.
YentaKvetch proposes a new museum for Europe! She proposes that it be built in Luxembourg, since nobody goes there anymore now that Icelandair is using Amsterdam instead.
What should we put in the Luxembourg museum? Of course, all those things on everyone's check off list. We move the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory of Samothrace, Venus de Milo and that Michelangelo thing from The Louvre. From the British Museum we'd take the Elgin Marbles and The Rosetta Stone. From The Netherlands, we'd move "The Night Watch" by Rembrandt. From The Vatican, we'd get The Pieta. Perhaps we could include The David and "Venus on the Half Shell" from Florence as well.
YentaKvetch welcomes other suggestions for this new museum from the epinions community.
Everyone could go to the new museum and check off all those "must sees" at once. It would ease the crush on the highways from too many tour busses belching smoke, and students could pay for shorter term rail passes, saving their parents a few bucks. All those artworks that everyone has on their "A" level check off list will be in the same place. Very convenient.
And, as for all of us who have already seen most of that stuff on our first trip to Europe, we'd have the museums to ourselves. We wouldn't need a battering ram anymore. With fewer bodies in the summer heat, the unairconditioned Louvre might be tolerable for more than a half hour.
Luxembourg would be able to fill all those hotels beds left empty since Icelandair pulled out.
Just kidding, of course. But why, oh, why, aren't The Mona Lisa, Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo all in the same room at The Louvre--right near the entrance? It would make life easier on the feet.
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