Camera fodder for foreign tourists...

[sandyRoe]

For the second time in as many weeks a group of foreign tourists, Asians this time, Spaniards the first, started taking photographs of me as I walked through town with some shopping today.
What's the matter with these people, have they never seen a chap wearing a tweed suit with the trousers cut in the plus-four fashion?

[dotty.]

did you have a deerstalker hat on too? maybe they thought you were sherlock holmes

[sandyRoe]

No. Just a cloth cap.

[tonyav]

Was you smoking a pipe, sandy ?.

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps you would care to post a photo of yourself Sandy, and then we could see for ourselves what all the fuss is about?

[sandyRoe]

AOG, I value my anonymity too much to be posting pictures of myself here. BUt the suit looked a bit like this, though not that terrible colour.

http://t1.gstatic.com...xxPQsikyHLrfEH7OHm_l0

[emmie]

are you the reincarnated Sherlock Holmes, if so perhaps that is why?

[dotty.]

ahh, perhaps they thought you were King George V1

[emmie]

straight off the set of Downton abbey.

[parkie]

Lol :o)

[tonyav]

Do you play golf, sandy ?.

[sandyRoe]

You buy a suit in Oxfam and the two times you wear it there's ructions. It will have to go back. :-)

[emmie]

you was robbed..

[shoota]

I'll have it - it'll go with my moleskin breeks a treat!

[tonyav]

LOL, ask for your 50p back, sandy.

[emmie]

surely they paid you to take it away..

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// AOG, I value my anonymity too much to be posting pictures of myself here. BUt the suit looked a bit like this, though not that terrible colour. ///

Yes I can quite see the reason for the interest, but why only from Spaniards and Asians?

But regarding the latter, I wonder what the reaction would be if you were to try and taker a photo of an Asian woman wearing a Burqa?

[emmie]

come on he is only teasing..

[sandyRoe]

There you go again. I start what should have been a light-hearted thread and racism is dragged into it.

[ummmm]

He's obsessed.

[emmie]

i have been asked directions hundreds of times over the years, sure it must be the blue badge stapled to my forehead.