Brits Go on Holiday, Europe Cowers in Fear

Travel Blog  •  Elyse Franko  •  08.25.08 | 4:53 PM ET

So we’ve posted about the British couple getting arrested after having sex on a Dubai beach. And about the nine British women who were arrested for taking part in an oral sex competition in Greece. Now the New York Times offers a comprehensive look at the bad behavior of Brits abroad.

While Brits have long been testing the patience of Eastern Europeans by getting smashed and belligerent on their stag party weekends, they’re now rising to even more destructive levels—getting in fights, getting hospitalized and sometimes even getting themselves killed.

Related on World Hum:
* Bored on Zakynthos? You Might Skip the Sex Competition
* British Couple Arrested for Having Sex on Beach in Dubai

Tags: Food, Europe, England, News and Briefs

Elyse Franko is a Long Island native, a graduate of the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., and a former World Hum intern. During her time at university, she wrote and edited for several campus publications and fostered her love for traveling by spending time abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany. She currently works as a teaching assistant in Vienna, Austria.


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