Brits Abroad on Holiday - how others see us

[Earlybird]

www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/europe/24crete.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Any thoughts or comments?

I think it depends where you go, but there was a big piece on the French news while we were away about carryings on in Malia/Faliraki etc, and the footage was depressing.
Have to say I was living in France as a student 25 years ago and even then there was a general view on campus that British and American women were easy and drank too much. It unfortunately made one very cautious about any overtures of friendship.
Luckily 50% of my family wilt in the heat so we tend to holiday in parts of Europe where there is no sun, sangria and sex culture. Getting through a bottle of Pineau in a week is as riotous as it gets on a bargain basement gite holiday .
TMMJ has a point about bar owners etc being to some extent responsible for making very cheap drink readily available and offering "buy one, get five free" type promotions.

And I quite agree that boozed-up Finns and Danes are not to be messed with on holiday.