Word: touristed
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...rioting Toldot Aharon members of the Eda Haredim community as they perpetuate their own forms of hatred and, ultimately, disloyalty to the state. In just this month alone, they have protested, with the same stone-throwing intensity, the installation of a municipal parking lot near Jerusalem’s tourist-heavy Old City that would remain open on the Sabbath; in late June they protested (albeit much more peacefully than they have in years past) the city’s annual gay-pride parade...
Germany's reputation for efficiency is under serious threat, as work on Berlin's main suburban train networks has brought the city to a grinding halt. At the height of tourist season and with Berlin playing host to the World Athletics Championships in just a few weeks, the resulting chaos could not have come at a worse time for the cash-strapped capital...
...admit that the choice not to make the forum completely user friendly might not actually be a choice per se. Perhaps Italians don’t know how to handle their ancient treasures in a tourist-pleasing manner. In this sense, my friend might be right, but visitors must take Roman ruins on their own terms. The bitter-sweet taste might not induce comfort, but it does make you think...
BATA, Equatorial Guinea — This country is a frightening place for foreigners. With a booming oil rush and billions in American petrol companies’ investments, it is fair to say that the government has no real need for a tourist industry. This became very clear to me on my fourth night in the tiny central African nation...
...Karlan, one of three missing students and the only Harvard student in the group, had set out with a group of roughly a dozen hikers on Sunday to climb Imbabura, an inactive volcano and tourist attraction in northern Ecuador, her mother said. The group enjoyed lunch on the mountain after reaching the summit late Sunday morning but then split up on the way down. Karlan and her companions reportedly got lost in the rainforest and were forced to scale down waterfalls using roots and sleep in dried riverbeds before they were able to continue their trek down the mountain...