No-one seems to like tourists any more. This week Venice introduced its €5 entry charge – which merely buys you the right to go into the city and be ripped off by cafes and restaurants. On Tenerife, residents have been marching and daubing slogans on the walls ‘tourist – go home’. So much for free movement. Meanwhile, in Japan, a village near Mount Fuji is so fed up with Instagrammers that it is erecting a giant screen to hide the mountain. Happy holidays!
It was a trudge over ash and glacial gravels – which make for surprisingly easy walking
Not to worry. If you want to go somewhere where you won’t bother the locals you could always do as I did last summer and walk across Iceland. That is a 200 mile trek without a single local to offend. Once past the grockles luxuriating in the rainbow spray created by the Skogarfoss waterfall, it was going to be eight days with hardly a single inhabited building. Taking
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