Pub in Wales Forced to Take Down Sign Banning Travelers

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  05.30.08 | 11:03 AM ET

Brings new meaning to the place where everybody knows your name. If not, get lost. The BBC didn’t name the pub with a sign that read: “Polite notice—positively no travellers.” A police officer who noticed it called it “bigoted” and offensive and forced the pub to remove it. The BBC didn’t elaborate on why the pub is down on tourists or if we now have a prayer of getting a beer there.

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Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


3 Comments for Pub in Wales Forced to Take Down Sign Banning Travelers

Roger 05.30.08 | 1:50 PM ET

I think this is actually in reference to a subculture know as “travellers” in the UK, not tourists. Travellers are the British equivalent to gypsies in the rest of Europe, people with no fixed abode, who work temporary labor jobs and have a nefarious reputation.

Bradford Daly 05.30.08 | 2:02 PM ET

Yes, I agree that this was probably a reference to the UK version of gypsies, not travelers as we think of them on World Hum.

Joanna Kakissis 05.30.08 | 8:04 PM ET

You are both right, and I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out. I apparently need a translator to understand the BBC….

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