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The British reputation for bad behaviour on holiday is, I'm afraid, well deserved. Cheap liquor and sunshine are both strange to them ...
When my mother and I went abroad with the car (Mini) for the first time in 1964, we stayed in a bed-&-breakfast in Rotterdam (we had relations-by-marriage there). Mother asked the man of the house about how the Dutch liked their visitors.
'We like the British very much,' he replied. 'We like the French too. The Germans ... we don't like very much. But we are Dutch: we take their money.'
At that time the Germans had a habit of digging little forts on the beaches at Zandvoort and Noordwijk-aan-Zee, and decorating them with pebbles spelling out besetzt bis zum 1. September.
Sorry, ingo ...
I have to admit we tended to avoid Brits when we travelled abroad on holiday, even when they weren't badly behaved. French, Germans, even Iraqis, fine: Brits, never!
When my mother and I went abroad with the car (Mini) for the first time in 1964, we stayed in a bed-&-breakfast in Rotterdam (we had relations-by-marriage there). Mother asked the man of the house about how the Dutch liked their visitors.
'We like the British very much,' he replied. 'We like the French too. The Germans ... we don't like very much. But we are Dutch: we take their money.'
At that time the Germans had a habit of digging little forts on the beaches at Zandvoort and Noordwijk-aan-Zee, and decorating them with pebbles spelling out besetzt bis zum 1. September.
Sorry, ingo ...
I have to admit we tended to avoid Brits when we travelled abroad on holiday, even when they weren't badly behaved. French, Germans, even Iraqis, fine: Brits, never!