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... drunk Brits ... ... what else ...

The tourists, ranging in ages from late teens to "about 60",...

gastro-whatsitsname my foot!

so now we know where disappeared off to in the middle of the thessaloniki gig...

I found it damn funny, but Greeks dont have that much humour when it comes to religion...
loved it!!

The funniest is that they were dressed as Catholic nuns, and Greeks are 98-99% Greek Orthodox
From the other hand, Silence you see what happened some days ago near Saint Panteleimon in Athens...
No, i will not say what happened there...

iesus wrote:The funniest is that they were dressed as Catholic nuns, and Greeks are 98-99% Greek Orthodox
From the other hand, Silence you see what happened some days ago near Saint Panteleimon in Athens...
No, i will not say what happened there...

So was the real problem the cross-dressing...?

7anthea7 wrote:
So was the real problem the cross-dressing...?

Don't know it really
But it was funny spectacle as i see the pics...



they were come from Bristol mainly i heard, is this in the south of England or North?

more in
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... Crete.html

iesus wrote:they were come from Bristol mainly i heard, is this in the south of England or North?

The southwest, actually.

The Mail wrote:...current and former players for Hanham Athletic and Hanham Sunday league team, based in Bristol, were arrested in a bar in the seaside resort of Malia on Saturday night dressed in nuns' costumes, lingerie and wimples.

Footballers...

And then wrote:In previous years the men have dressed up as St Trinians schoolgirls in Portugal and babies in Cyprus.

Not to say I have any problem with men in dresses (yummmmmmmmm) ( ), but not that lot, thank you very much.

And also wrote:Britons account for about 15 per cent of the 15 million tourists who visit Greece every year and some have gained notoriety for drunken and occasionally violent behaviour.

Guess they're trying to give obnoxious American tourists a run for their money.

"Brits abroad" have a very bad reputation on the mainland.

7anthea7 wrote:Guess they're trying to give obnoxious American tourists a run for their money.

The Americans spend a lot of money on their Cultural Ambassadors.

To be fair, it seems as if no single country is free from, nor has a monopoly upon, exporting it's most irritating and annoying citizens for two weeks in a foreign land once a year.

Some say that foreign travel narrows the mind wonderfully, but for whom?

You'd think a nation that elevated pederasty to an art form would be rather blase about a bit of mild cross-dressing, wouldn't you?

DeWinter wrote:You'd think a nation that elevated pederasty to an art form would be rather blase about a bit of mild cross-dressing, wouldn't you?

Actually, the Turks were more to blame for the pederasty business - the Greeks historically preferred theirs, erm, full-grown.