It was glaringly obvious whilst enjoying a bit of sunshine in Kefalonia this last week, that the vast majority of the Greek population, young and old, know exactly how to enjoy themselves socially without having to resort to the vile loud mouthed British method.
Went into Argostoli, the islands main town, for a drink in the main square that is ringed with wine bars and tat shops.
It was very busy and bustling. Average age of the punters was 25-35.
ALL without exception were mild mannered, polite pleasant and most noticably, quiet both in speech and laughter.
Complimented the bar man regarding their general behaviour and asked was this usual.
It is apparently
Fast forward 20 hours to a restaurant at 5:30.
No locals in there. Just a gang quarter dressed loud mouthed f'in and blindin' cockneys, male and female, jeering and fisting the air...could have been scousers brummies geordies jocks or taffs , makes no difference, but these particular arse holes were clearly cockneys.
They had to laugh as loud as they could at every word spoken by their mottley crew.
WHY?
Do we as a nation have something to prove here, prove that we can't hold our drink and are generally a nation of shameful arrogant loud mouthed attention seeking overly aggresive trouble seeking greedy selfish dick 'ed's?
Minority granted, but a bloody large one.
Ashamed to be be a Brit abroad sometimes.
