When “tourist hordes” “descend” on a place they “spoil” it, ditto “cruise-ship crowds”

Molise has yet to be discovered, so it's a region worth visiting before tourist hordes descend. (about.com)

avoids the tourist hordes that descend upon Moscow's Red Square. (wikitravel.org)

Most travellers descend on popular regions (like Europe) during the summer months, as this often coincides with their own holiday periods. The result? Hordes of tourists descending on the attractions that you want to see, booking out the funky hotel that you wanted to stay in, and packing out the tables in that restaurant that you didn’t want to miss, all on the day you’re in that town that you wanted to visit because the pictures you saw made it seem so quiet, serene and delightful. Lonely Planet blog 

hordes of holidaymakers and sightseers teem through the streets. chinatravel.net

Try to avoid the hordes of day trippers who arrive about 10.30am on excursion boats from Rhodes… Web

But venture closer towards Mallory Square and the horror creeps in. Sunset is the big crowd-puller and as the cruise ships dock, all the crazies in the land come out to play, whistles and hot pants at the ready. The whole place becomes a carnival. During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness. The Daily Telegraph on Key West, June 2011

unspoiled: no tourists

hordes: tourists

tourists: low-rent travellers

coach parties: low-class trippers

visitors: people like us

travellers: our student children (with backpacks)

belch     Factories chimneys always belch smoke. We don't like them much.

bustling     Street markets, especially abroad, are bustling. Waiters are likely to scurry in this environment.

brisk     At auctions, bidding is always brisk.

colourful    Anything can be colourful: roadside stalls, vegetable patches... But maybe not supermarkets.

concrete jungle = fine modernist Portland stone buildings (Owen Hatherley)

dutiful     Monks are always dutiful, or make herbal liqueurs dutifully. (Sometimes for a change they're tireless or indefatigable.)

 

duly (which he duly did – has slight sneer, bit like the dutiful monks) Oh yes, those monks “duly” do things too “Nonetheless, the monks duly recorded that 34 cloths, meant to be made into monks’ clothing, had been delivered to the monastery,” wiki “The monks duly resettled at Maenan” (forced to move by Ed I) monasticwales.org In AD635, King Oswald of Northumbria requested that a group of monks from the priory on Iona in the West of Scotland come to his kingdom with a view to converting the North of England to Christianity. A party of monks duly came. “Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ“ prescribed the Rule of Saint Benedict, and his monks duly fed the arriving pilgrims.// Left instructions that it was to be buried with her upon her death, which the monks duly did. Correct use: they were obeying an injunction. (Same sneer as dutiful – of course monks are zombie slaves, when they're not being quaint.)

fierce     The local inhabitants are either fiercely proud, or fiercely independent. They also tend to be fiercely loyal.  "The Polynesian aspect of our heritage is fiercely independent." Independent March 10  The Shetland Islanders are "fiercely independent and self-reliant".//Because of the repressive form of Islamic radicalism that has dominated the Afghan narrative, most Westerners would find it shocking that Pashtuns are fiercely independent and value individual liberty. pakpotpourri2.wordpress.com (They have to be fierce to counteract those Western stereotypes - Westerners like projecting repression onto other societies.)

folk are people distant from us in place or time. Or else they're rural and primitive. Townsfolk threw rotten veg at people in the pillory. Does anyone still write captions about "Local tribesmen and their womenfolk”? Yes, they do.

grey     Suburbs are inclined to be grey, because we disapprove of them.

huddle     Houses are always huddled on a mountainside.

industrial wasteland = applied to any collection of industrial buildings which may be  “hives of activity” and “bustling” with actual industry. But anything that isn’t residential or natural is a “wasteland”.

lush    Grasslands are always lush.

nestled     Villages are always nestled somewhere.

pummel     What waves to do coasts. 

buffet    What high winds do to practically anything.

lash     What rain does to buildings.

rolling    Hills are always rolling.

sleepy     Fishing villages are always sleepy, and contain a huddle of whitewashed cottages. "We ate more fresh fish at a beachside restaurant in the sleepy fishing village of Sogut." Observer Feb 28 10 I think it's code for "no tourists".

 

sightseers, day-trippers, tourists  Not us!

suitably seraphic   Choirboys are always suitably seraphic (angelic, cherubic). There's something slightly damning about that "suitably".

wind     Narrow cobbled streets always wind up hills.