Many are the times that I have been travelling abroad, and have looked through the huge variety of tourist publications on offer, with the sinking feeling that I am not gaining the same information that the local populace is privy to.
The enormous, glossy advertisements extolling the virtues of each restaurant merely convey one clear message to me. Why are they having to advertise if their product is so good?
Surely it means that they are shunned by all those in the know, and have to rely on getting gullible tourists - most of whom will never return - to fill their acres of empty seats.