thismeintiel said:
It's pretty clear he was doing the cheek kiss, as he was nowhere near his lips. Maybe Will should take some lessons in culture when he is going to be going to be in other countries. |
He wasn't, the cheek kissing done in european mainland (I'm from UK and we don't do it domestically with other brits) doesn't actually involve lips touching the cheek, the cheeks touch but never the lips if done properly. Trust me on that, at least that is the way for friends who aren't close and family. I walked across spain last year, "Way of Saint James" or "Camino De Santiago" and often was introduced to friends of people I'd been walking with and always greeted like that, was a bit scary at first especially if women as it could be interpreted as a sexually motivated action, well it wasn't and it isn't. Was very strange first time I spontaneously did it to someone I hadn't even said "hello" to yet when a person I'd only met half an hour before introduced me to these 2 japanese women. They were a little surprised too as had only started walking the past few days but surprised in a pleasent way.
The reporter here I can 100% say was not following that custom, he was going for a reaction. I have a friend I'm very close to who is female from barcelona who I also met along the way and discussed this at length as I was intrigued by the whole thing.
