We are all different! I like a bit of solitude but only for so long. Part of my hiking experience is to meet new people, whoever they are. After a long day hiking when I roll into town I want three things, food, beer and relationships! I'm that person who will be in that pub or cafe just waiting for an opportunity (eye contact, a sound, etc) to speak to a local, a home tourist, a foreign tourist and so on. People are so very interesting! That's why I also love tea rooms, coffee and cake, the high spot of any hiking day! When I was in Keswick a few months ago I had a great time talking to the visiting religious people. so many were so intolerant of everything, but I enjoyed it a lot. I had lots of coffee and cake whilst there. I also talked to a man and his son who provided one of the food and drink contracts to them. When he realised I wasn't 'one of them' he was so relieved, we chatted for well over an hour whilst be slogged our way through my Victoria Sponge and his Coffee and Walnut.
They have some good ones in France as well, the French seem to concentrate on visual display of their cakes to tempt customers in, the UK ones mostly seem to just bung their cakes under a see though round plastic container. Just as good to eat but just different in style. My most memorable cake shop was in Verdun, their cake display was mind boggling!