点评:We visited on my husband’s Birthday hoping to experience a flavour of what his dear Nan endured during WW2 when she was resident.
I know this is possible as had visited previously on a school trip.
However, the Guide we had spent most of the allocated time slot talking about ancient Saxon and Druid times (not much to show for that) and a ‘hilarious’ story (at least he thought it was) about an old colleague called Dave. He lost us many times during that story and it was certainly NOT what we went there for.
Anyway, after he finished presenting himself to us we finally moved onto the evidence of WW2 life which was rich in evidence, but felt like we were rushed through it after spending 10 minutes looking at an old ‘lake’ where we were treated to Taz’s unique style of tourist interaction. He would ask everyone to answer the question then ridicule the answers “What! Why would you say that?”
We didn’t go there for an argument or challenge. Just to learn about the history of these caves that relate to our family.
We left feeling disappointed.
There was no talk of how far the caves stretch (I provided that in the car home afterwards) or any kind of geographical history.
Maybe a different tour guide would have provided a more robust tour of the WW2 experience.
翻译:我们在我丈夫生日那天前去参观,希望能体验一下他在二战期间与祖母同住此地时所经历的一切。
我知道这是可以实现的,因为我以前曾作为学校组织的旅行团成员来过这里。
然而,导游在规定的时间内大部分时间都在讲述古代的撒克逊人和德鲁伊文化(其实没什么可展示的),还讲了一个关于他的老同事戴夫的“搞笑”故事(至少他自己觉得挺好笑)。在那个讲解过程中,他好几次把我们搞糊涂了,这绝对不是我们去那里的目的。
不管怎样,在他做完自我介绍后,我们终于开始查看有关二战生活的各类展品。虽然相关资料相当丰富,但在花了10分钟时间观看一个“旧湖泊”模型后,我们感觉整个参观过程被匆匆带过。在此期间,塔兹还展现了他独特的与游客互动方式:他会要求每个人回答问题,然后对答案加以嘲讽:“什么!?”“为什么你会这么说呢?”
我们去那里并非为了争吵或挑战,只是想了解这些与我们家族相关的洞穴的历史。
离开时我们感到很失望。
导游根本没有提及这些洞穴的延伸范围(后来我在回家的车上补充了这一信息),也没有讲述任何相关的地理历史。
或许换一位导游的话,能带我们更深入地了解二战时期的历史吧。