Yet the stream of tour buses heading into town on most summer days makes it clear that times are changing.
The castle, an imposing stone fortress of ramps, stairs, parapets and holding pens, is a Unesco World Heritage Site and draws not only a steady stream of tour groups but also many visitors, including large numbers of African-Americans, traveling on their own.
As the director of golf for the PGA West courses, Darrin Harn has seen a steady stream of tour players recently showing up to try the courses.
Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is a sequel of sorts to her 2009 Booker winner Wolf Hall, and Will Self's Umbrella is a bravura stream-of-consciousness tour through 20th-century history and psychiatry.
In late 2014, Roar Radio ran a commentary stream of Australia's UAE tour against Pakistan.
(I saw her point: imagine putting up with an endless stream of foreigners stopping off between tours of Rajasthan and Indonesia for a little restorative do-gooding).
As he tours North Carolina for his wife, Elizabeth, and her run for Senate, he has rejected it in favor of a more natural stream-of-consciousness patter.
Call it stream-of-consciousness shopping.
He noted the stream of public officials who had toured ground zero over the past seven months, and added: "And now, when Andrew is talking, it's political.
Battling with Meek Mill, releasing a steady stream of singles and completing a headline tour, unlike Kendrick Lamar whose opus To Pimp a Butterfly was released, impressed a lot of people and then slowly faded from view, Drake's been jumping up and down while dishing out tracks for his fans.
