A good sense of humour will go a long way when it comes to travel, especially to countries where the culture is totally different from yours. Sometimes unpleasant situations will arise because of lack of understanding, associated with the inability to understand a foreign language. Chat-Bout’s advice ‘” smile and make the joke seem like it is on you. Just laugh it off. Another important thing to remember when travelling is ‘ When in Rome, do as the Romans do”, or the Jamaican equivalent which is “If yuh go a tumpa foot dance, yuh fi dance tumpa foot. So observe the behavior of the persons around you, and make sure you don’t break the unwritten rules because you will incur the wrath of the ‘natives’.
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