Other international peculiarities

I remembered some other oddities I have encountered in my life. I will keep adding to the list as things come back to my memory.

• Paying more to sleep outside on the roof than for a room inside the hotel; it was the height of summer and there was no air conditioning [Greece]
• Being offered grilled rat on a stick as a snack at a bus stop; it tasted like chicken [Malawi]
• Being offered sheep's eyes and testicles as a delicacy because I was the guest of honour; I only ate the testicles [Azerbaijan]
• Getting loose change in the form of candy because price increases were accelerating; I gave the candy to some children [Turkey]
• Being mistaken for an airport worker because my hosts expected the international consultant to be white [Uganda]
• Shocking my audience at a public meeting by speaking in Welsh; my name is Jones but I am black [Wales]
• Being served by a white (Welsh) person while other white (English) people are constantly ignored; my name is Jones, I am black, but I could speak Welsh and the Welsh detest the English [north Wales]