点评:I live in Bishop and had been several times before so I was keen to bring visitors to this incredible gallery. Unfortunately the experience was all but ruined by the behaviour of the guides. They are like five year olds who just learned something new at school and absolutely have to tell everyone, interested or not. It is impossible to communicate to them that you just want to be left alone to contemplate the experience. On one floor that we entered there were two guides (and two of us) one of whom immediately moved ahead of us and the other shadowed our movements from behind us as if they were expecting to foil us in our attempt to steal one of these paintings … completely unnecessary and completely rude. By all means have the artwork guarded but perhaps being less hostile about it. As for the endless army of guides, instead latching on to someone and boring them with the endless trivia maybe take a breath and wait to be approached, as excellent as the gallery and Castle are these are by no means a cheap experience, which is severely marred by this cloying unpleasant behaviour … on of these characters even chased through the Castle to tell us who had made the replica carpet in the throne room, despite the fact that we had not enquired about the carpet, were not interested in the fabricators of the thing, in fact he was fixated on this detail having been asked about it at some time in the past and decided that anyone who stood still long enough to be trapped by him was jolly well going to know this utterly useless fact whether they wanted to or not. If this level of arrogance is something you can tolerate then the gallery is worth a visit, but these guides ruined the experience for me and my visitor today.
翻译:我住在毕晓普,之前来过几次,所以很想带大家去看看这个很棒的画廊。可惜的是,导游的粗鲁行为几乎毁了这次参观体验。他们就像刚在学校学到新东西的五岁小孩,非得跟所有人讲,不管感兴趣与否。你根本无法让他们明白,你只想一个人静静地欣赏。我们进去的那层楼里有两位导游(我们俩也一样),一位立刻走到我们前面,另一位则在我们身后紧跟着,仿佛要阻止我们偷画……完全没必要,也非常粗鲁。无论如何,一定要保护好艺术品,但最好不要那么敌视。至于那群没完没了的导游,他们不会紧紧抓住某人,用无休止的琐事让他们感到厌烦,而是会休息一会儿,等待别人上前询问。虽然画廊和城堡都很棒,但这绝不是一次廉价的体验,这种令人生厌的令人不快的行为严重破坏了这种体验……其中一个人甚至追着我们穿过城堡,告诉我们是谁制作了王座室里的复制地毯,尽管我们没有询问过地毯,对它的制造者不感兴趣,事实上,他一直对这个细节很着迷,因为他过去曾被问及过这个问题,他认为任何站着不动被他困住的人,不管他们是否愿意,都很可能会知道这个完全无用的事实。如果您可以容忍这种程度的傲慢,那么这个画廊值得一游,但这些导游毁了我和今天游客的体验。