do tourists have to feel guilty when they leave?

Why is it tourists always feel guilty on the last day of their holidays? Yep, you've guessed it, our first batch of visitors is leaving us today and they're going through the typical tourist syndrome. "Why haven't I seen more things? More museums, more architecture, more everything about this place?" It is kind of normal. Whenever I go somewhere for the first time and only have 3-4 days to stay I just hope to get an overview of the place. There's no way I can kid myself to believe I can visit all of it and still go out at nights! Must be some sort of guilt afflicting everyone of us. Actually not everyone, just the lazy ones. The organised kind of people will manage to tick all the boxes on the tourist must see list, but if you're a lazy bastard (like me -and most of my friends) you can't hope to go out and get that extra bottle of wine after dinner, because you're enjoying talking rubbish after dinner while sitting in a nice terrace and still pretend you're going to wake up at 8.30 to go visit a museum, right? At least that's how I see it and I know about it. At the end of the day you'll only get the spirit of a city by living there or spending a lot of time there, otherwise you'll only get some random snap-shots of what a guide thinks the place is all about.

On the other hand if you could visit a place in a couple of days and live all you have to live there, then we'd all be visiting places like Japanese tourists do. Get there, take a couple of shots, have somebody (or a book) to tell you a couple interesting facts you'll be able to use at a dinner party and move on to the next place to visit. Not my idea of tourism.

Now, I don't mean to write this to piss you off (if you work in an office, please don't read this, you'll hate me) but I'm going back to bed. I'm very tired and wheather is not very nice, so I'm off for a quick nap. ciao.