To feel a bit like everyone hates me when I'm a British tourist in Europe now

I don't relate to your post OP at all.

Please remember that sometimes staff in bakeries and supermarkets can be a little abrupt/come off as rude because they are trying to serve a lot of customers with varying accents & linguistic ability and sadly don't always have time for pleasantries.

I moved to Greece post-Brexit and have travelled to a variety of other countries & cities during that time and honestly have not had any issue that one could directly link with being British. Brexit has been a topic of conversation at times but most Greeks I have discussed it with either lightheartedly laugh at the stupidity of self sabotage or couldn't care less.

The anti-tourist demonstrations have mostly been aimed at the governments and their allowing Air BnB & their ilk to price local people out of the rental market. It really is disgusting & incredibly short sighted. We have a shortage of teachers & medical staff on our island mostly because trying to find long term and affordable rental properties is becoming increasingly impossible. A good friend of mine had their rent doubled in the space of a year, on the basis that the landlord argued he could make more money via Air BnB.

Agree, was in Canaries both when Brexit was announced and when we officially left. You could tell the sentiment towards Brits a mile off . I have a transatlantic accent so people assume I'm American/Canadian and when I correct them, there was always a distinct look of disappointment - now, it's one of pity! 😭

I don’t think the British are known for being too polite

God no one has mentioned Brexit to us since the year it happened, I'd be amazed if people on the continent were still bringing that up. We've been to Spain, Greece, Austria, France, Cyprus, Belgium and Croatia since Brexit happened and no one has ever been negative about it - and when it happened they were just mildly disappointed that the UK was leaving.

Some areas of Spain are upset about the lack of housing and are taking it out little on the tourists rather than the people really at fault and who could actually do something about it (ie the government allowing it to go on). We went to Mallorca recently and saw a couple of slogans but had absolutely no issues.

Nooooo!!! And there's me going to French classes to brush up on my French ...should I not bother? Last time I was in Paris I had a bit of a mixed reaction...some people were lovely and helped me with my rubbish French..others rolled their eyes and sighed and said "Anglaise?" when I tried to speak French to them 😂

OTOH we were staying with dd, SiL and baby Gdd in a beach hotel in Crete, shortly before the Brexit referendum. The manager told us he was very worried about the vote - if it meant Brexit, would the Brits stop coming? They were his best customers, the most polite and the least troublesome!

Of course it was a nice family hotel, not the sort of place where people would be boozing around the pool from breakfast time, but still, it was nice to be appreciated!

What? 😂You're wasting your time, anyone can tell you're a Brit.

Why are you avoiding Spain? That said, I have only been to Barcelona, which is arguably not really Spain. I know that Barcelona is supposed to be very hostile to tourists, but I haven't found that to be the case at all.

It's not so much that French people love it as it's just seen as the basic bare minimum of reasonable behaviour, and to not do it comes across as really rude. It's considered to be like walking into someone's house without greeting them. People working in heavily touristy areas have come to expect it from some foreigners, but it still comes over as ignorant.

I’ll never tell 😂

Since last June I've been to Spain, Czech Republic, Portugal, Hungary, Italy, Austria and Slovenia.
Mostly by myself but on some occasions with friends.
I haven't experienced any hostility whatsoever.
People have been kind and friendly. Same as they always have been

When we were students many years ago we went to Paris on a Uni trip, When we tried to get into one night club they wouldn’t let us in as the thought we were English, we told them we were Irish and they immediately changed their tune and let us in

Just stating what had been said to me over the years!

Only just got back to the thread
I want to know what you said now 😂

I think some people really overestimate how much interest people in other countries have in British politics.

This isn’t British tourist it’s tourism in general as it is pricing people out of living in their home towns/ cities. People in Cornwall did something similar.

if you stay in a hotel opposed to an Air BnB you are often treated better.

Great argument there. I've never experienced racism in the UK, and I've travelled all over. It must mean there is no racism on the UK at all

Please say how you look so British OP! I'm absolutely intrigued 😁

We were on holidays in Lanzorate for christmas, found staff a bit reserved and not that friendly, they asked where we were from and we said ireland, all smiles, said we thought you were English, we don't like English, drink too much and always trouble so possibly OP is experiencing this although totally not fair as obviously they are totally generalising, sad to say its not the first time this has been said to us over the years, just don't think English have a good reputation abroad which I agree is totally unfair