Tourists Your Ten Commandments

While delving through an old suitcase under my bed, I found a notebook from my travels years ago, and in it were these words of wisdom. I thought I might share them.

Tourists Your Ten Commandments

1. Thou shalt not expect to find things as thou hast them at home, for thou hast left home to find things different.
2. Thou shalt not take anything TOO seriously, for a carefree mind is the beginning of a fine holiday.
3. Thou shalt not let other tourists get on thy nerves, for thou art paying out good money to enjoy thyself.
4. Remember to take only half the clothes thou thinks thou needs - and twice the money.
5. Know at all times where thy passport is, for a person without a passport is a person without a country.
6. Remember that if we had been expected to stay in one place, we would have been created with roots.
7. Thou shalt not worry, for they that worrith hath no pleasute - few things are ever fatal.
8. When in Rome, thou shalt be prepared to do somewhat as the Romans do.
9. Thou shalt not judge the people of a country by the one person who hast given the trouble.
10. Remember thou are a guest in other lands, and they that treateth their host with respect shall be honoured.

The author is unknown and I can't remember where I found these but I'm guessing Scotland. Where ever it was, I think they apply equally now as they did then!