MALIA, Greece: Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin. They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion. "They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," the mayor of Malia, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people - not the Germans or the French."
MALIA, Greece: Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.
They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.
"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," the mayor of Malia, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. "It is only the British people - not the Germans or the French."
But realistically it's just a typical Friday/Saturday night in the UK exported to somewhere warm. I have no idea why they do it or what failing there is but it's practically a scandanavian attitude to drinking coupled with an aggressive territorial need to impose themselves on others. A mass celebration of the virtues of colossal ignorance; believing others are stupid if they can't speak english while mocking anyone who has the cheek to speak english better than they.
Especially when abroad with the ongoing cultural need to put down Johnny foreigner to prove that "British is best" :-(. Yet despite tabloid headlines, it's always been a part of British culture, going back hundreds of years. One of the great ironies is that British tabloids both criticise and encourage the very boorishness involved.
Fortunately the era of cheap flights is coming to an end and a lot of this will go away in the next few years. keep to the Fen Causeway
(not that a friday night out in Wales is really any better) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
