We meet a good many fellow travelers (although we try to meet mostly locals) and one group always bothers me. These are the comparison visitors. They compare the food to home, the hotels to home, the language to home, the culture to home... in general they like home best.
I like home too, but a person sounds like an idiot getting angry in an Edinburgh tea shop because they do not have ranch dressing for the cucumber salad. (Actually witnessed that one.) If you don't like seafood you just work around it in Venice, you don't complain. You will find Coor's Beer is expensive in Austria because it is an import. Do you complain about the added cost of Stella in the U.S.? (Maybe you do.)
When you go into a Catholic Church in Italy you need to respect their dress code. You may be able to attend the Baptist Church in California in a tank top, shorts and sandals, but you are not in California when in Rome.
Travel is to experience "someplace else".
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