Weird people you meet on holiday.

[Diddumz]

1988 - went to Majorca with my family. There was a woman who kept pretending she was drowning in the pool.

Have you met any oddballs on holiday?

@Dizzy1234

Ooh I've been dying to tell my story. On a flight to Corfu, drunk couple had a fight, really noisy and violent sounding especially when the crew cut off their alcohol, got to Corfu airport and they were fighting as we waited to go through passport control, an armed police officer walked over to them and clicked open the popper on his gun holster (I thought he was going to seriously draw his weapon) they calmed down, OH & I got on our coach and they sat behind us and she lit up a cig! Another passenger told them you weren't allowed to smoke on the coach and they kicked off at the other passenger, then it turned out they were staying at the same apartments as us. They spent the whole holiday annoying other quests, sitting on the end of other guests sunbeds and starting drunken conversations that no one else wanted to have. Turned out that she was a psychiatric nurse, told us all about her job one morning over breakfast, that little window of opportunity when she wasn't drunk. She was actually lovely when sober, I'll never forget her

Sounds like you went on holiday with the same couple we did in Turkey. Spent the whole time fighting, drinking and 'befriending' other people. Told me all about the thousands of pounds they spent on holiday buying things and having Botox. On the last night they had a massive row and broke up. She came downstairs and told us all about it the next day. They were nice but crazy

@FluffyPersian

Yes and they're now our pen friends and we visit them once a year and write letters to them!

We got married in Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire and honeymooned in the local area, doing all kinds of crazy things. One of the crazy things was visit a museum (I won't say which one) which was run by the Husband and half way through his wife made us tea and home made delicious cake and we chatted - We found out that despite being 85 and us in our late 30's, they have very similar likes / dislikes - love gothic architecture, his wife loves gardening as do I - we both have a love of antiques, mu husband is very much into engineering as is the Husband..... it was amazing!

After we got back from honeymoon, I wrote a very positive review on tripadvisor and got a phone call from the Husband saying thank you - and then we sent the wife a Birthday card as it was her Birthday the week after we got back, so they sent a letter, so we sent a letter.....

.... 3 years later, we write letters to each other every 4-6 weeks! He writes the most beautiful letters in copperplate handwriting and I write letters on MS word and print them out and send them through the post .

The last letter they sent had a picture of him, wearing a WW2 German hat and a monocle, having taken a 'selfie'

I know we're pretty weird... so they're also weird, but in a nice way, and it's a lovely friendship - already looking forward to seeing them next year!

I love this

In a favourite bar in a village in Corfu, we were sitting at the bar chatting to the owner, and another couple came and sat on the stools next to us. We were complimenting the owner on her fantastic English and she was laughing saying when she first opened the bar, she was amazed at all the different accents that the UK tourists had.

The woman sitting on the next stool and I chatted a bit about this, when she said: "But you know, the very worst UK accent is the Scottish one. I simply cannot understand a word they say!"

Bar owner looks at us and indicating me, says to the woman: "But SHE is Scottish and you are talking."

Woman turns to me, amazed, and says: "But I can understand YOU! How is that?!?"

@FlorrieLindley - ha! That tickled me lol