Wednesday, March 12, 2008

freeloading

FreeloaderThe Wednesday quotation, part IX: A traveller is shocked to learn that they speak foreign in France.
Not only did no one not speak the language, they had also seen us as just a bunch of freeloading backpackers, which is the complete opposite of what the pilgrimage is really about. ("Language Barrier Scuppers Walker", BBC News)
This guy seems to have as much difficulty with English as with French. And how exactly was his "pilgrimage" "the complete opposite" of freeloading?

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