porshiepoo
22-Aug-06, 14:21
Hi all!
Just arrived back from 2 very sunny weeks in Crete, what a great time we all had. Have to say it's nice to be home and back to more 'normal' temperatures though.
Would recommend Crete to anyone - well at least the particular part we stayed in, the rest we saw looked a bit naff actually - apartments were great, beaches great, town great, in fact everything was great except for one particular area of the holiday - yep - german holiday makers.
It was bad enough that they refused to acknowledge a queue in the supermarkets or the restaraunts, it's even kinda expected that you'll witness the daily 'laying on' of beach towels on a multitude of sunbeds that they may decide to make use of at some point in the day, but I draw the line at water parks.
Picture the scene - the old mercury is registering 104 - 106, the ground is literally melting in places and the sprinklers the water park have laid on intending to cool passing bare feet are basically evaporating within seconds.
All other nations appear to be queueing, albeit grudgingly, for even the naffest of bumpy slide rides and along comes the german posse on their 3rd time down the slide (in the time we've been queueing), and appear to fail to notice the line receding down the path or even the multitude of people patiently (?!) waiting their turn whilst hopping from foot to foot in an attempt to lessen the 3rd degree burns on the soles of our flip flopless feet (either too excited or too stupid to think we may need them and leave them safely locked away at the lockers) and proceed to quite shamelessly make their way to the front of queue. Seriously, where are their manners?!
It's pointless trying to give them an evil glare (we tried) because they just shrug their shoulders and make out that they suddenly can't speak a damn word of English even though they spoke it fluently the night before at the restaraunt when they'd pushed to the front of the queue and wanted a seat.
Yes, it would definately seem that they may have lost 2 world wars but they certainly seem to knock up the holiday battle points, and lets be honest here, that is exactly what it turns into.
They go home with their fond memories of lounging lazily by the pool on the comfortable loungers - all of em!, refreshing night time sleep cos they've managed to get back to the hotel at a decent time cos they pushed to the front of the supermarket or restaraunt queue and what a whale of a time they had at the theme parks / water parks - they managed to have numerous goes on each ride cos their selective blindness / deafness meant there didn't appear to be any queues.
Whilst us Brits go home with a teriffic back ache from laying on the concrete by the pool or if we're reaaaaaly lucky - the prickly, dry grass, lack of sleep cos we don't make it out that diner before midnight and not so fond memories of 3rd degree burns to our feet now gone septic caused by queueing for ages to get 1 go on a 3 second ride compared to the 5 goes the german posse got!
And they even get away with it cos all we ever say is 'They're German what do you expect? They don't queue for anyone'.
Just arrived back from 2 very sunny weeks in Crete, what a great time we all had. Have to say it's nice to be home and back to more 'normal' temperatures though.
Would recommend Crete to anyone - well at least the particular part we stayed in, the rest we saw looked a bit naff actually - apartments were great, beaches great, town great, in fact everything was great except for one particular area of the holiday - yep - german holiday makers.
It was bad enough that they refused to acknowledge a queue in the supermarkets or the restaraunts, it's even kinda expected that you'll witness the daily 'laying on' of beach towels on a multitude of sunbeds that they may decide to make use of at some point in the day, but I draw the line at water parks.
Picture the scene - the old mercury is registering 104 - 106, the ground is literally melting in places and the sprinklers the water park have laid on intending to cool passing bare feet are basically evaporating within seconds.
All other nations appear to be queueing, albeit grudgingly, for even the naffest of bumpy slide rides and along comes the german posse on their 3rd time down the slide (in the time we've been queueing), and appear to fail to notice the line receding down the path or even the multitude of people patiently (?!) waiting their turn whilst hopping from foot to foot in an attempt to lessen the 3rd degree burns on the soles of our flip flopless feet (either too excited or too stupid to think we may need them and leave them safely locked away at the lockers) and proceed to quite shamelessly make their way to the front of queue. Seriously, where are their manners?!
It's pointless trying to give them an evil glare (we tried) because they just shrug their shoulders and make out that they suddenly can't speak a damn word of English even though they spoke it fluently the night before at the restaraunt when they'd pushed to the front of the queue and wanted a seat.
Yes, it would definately seem that they may have lost 2 world wars but they certainly seem to knock up the holiday battle points, and lets be honest here, that is exactly what it turns into.
They go home with their fond memories of lounging lazily by the pool on the comfortable loungers - all of em!, refreshing night time sleep cos they've managed to get back to the hotel at a decent time cos they pushed to the front of the supermarket or restaraunt queue and what a whale of a time they had at the theme parks / water parks - they managed to have numerous goes on each ride cos their selective blindness / deafness meant there didn't appear to be any queues.
Whilst us Brits go home with a teriffic back ache from laying on the concrete by the pool or if we're reaaaaaly lucky - the prickly, dry grass, lack of sleep cos we don't make it out that diner before midnight and not so fond memories of 3rd degree burns to our feet now gone septic caused by queueing for ages to get 1 go on a 3 second ride compared to the 5 goes the german posse got!
And they even get away with it cos all we ever say is 'They're German what do you expect? They don't queue for anyone'.