ladylisa

I remember years ago when my parents and their friends went to Crete they stayed in a hotel full of Germans, infact they were the only English people. Every day the resident Germans would come down before sun rise and take all the loungers with their towels and then go out for the whole day...yes I kid you not. After a day of having no lounger my mum was having no more of their shenanigans. So she took the towels off of all the empty loungers and then promptly claimed loungers for her and her friends, my dad kept saying no you cant do that, :scared: her reply was watch me . There was a right ruckus when the towel owners came back, to which my gladiator dad immediately jumped in the pool for a swim leaving mum to fend off the angry mob herself. She just told them straight that they were out of order and if they weren't at the pool in the future she would claim the loungers herself. Bless her she's a tiny little thing with a large voice, not many would mess with her when she's indignant. Way to go mum.

gruffbrown

gruffbrown

Good advice

CitySimon

Perhaps it's just me, but...

I'd say that the problem is not the legal precedent but simply that the Brits are (mostly) too damned polite to remove the towels.

OK, we COULD remove the towels from loungers... How many Brits here WOULD!?!?!?! I know I wouldn't!

Like I said.. Perhaps it's just me!

CAsunlover

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

I used to live next to Germany, I know exactly what you are talking about!!

Now the next thing is that they have to stop claiming spots on the beach, digging holes!!!!

scrubbedexpat099

James Bond type figure. Came on to the Balcony as dawn broke.

Towel bounced down the pool to the tune of the Dam Busters.....

Awesome.

PS: I think it was Carling

AdobePinon

You mean the towels weren't put there by the beach staffers for our exclusive use?

eurotramp

Come on guys...I'm german and I'm pissed of about the towel thing as much as anybody else.

Hubby and I remove towels from sun beds and look totally surprised when anybody came and wanted to lay down ...infact we did that even with sun beds we not even needed

franc111s

Nothing personal my friend. Just our weird sense of humor. You are free to take the micky out of any one of the following to do with Brits :-

1. 0-60 in 1 second when a wasp (yellow jacket) turns up at a pub.
2. Shirts off as soon as there is a break in the clouds (even if it's still raining).
3. WInd-breakers for the beach - a true British invention.
4. Make your own sandwiches for lunch because we are cheap (we make them *on* the beach).
5. Use the word "f**king" at least 3 times in a single sentence
6. Come up with a new name each season to describe what's hot/not (Dinks/Chavs/Yuppies/).
7. Make G-Strings a fashion statement
8. Drive over round-abouts not around roundabouts
9. Ban the word "Man-hole" cause it's sexist
10. Turn the country into a parking lot when we have one day off work (called a Bank Holiday) where we spend at least 4 hours getting somewhere and 4 hours getting back (typically to the beach). Just so as to get 8 hours off work

Germans and towels, we got you licked

SecretBeing

Theres nothing wrong whats so ever with German people, SO get that right. Germans are good hardworking people

snowbunny

This is a good article (linked to from the one posted above):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4263755.stm

eurotramp

And this is the reason, why Britain is so far at the bottom end when the Olympics are on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3039553.stm
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