by Milo » Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:43 am
Well said Paphitis,
I was in a private clinic in Protaras one night ( back spasm ) and watched as they struggled to get alcohol out of a British youngster, before she died of alcoholic posioning later.
It's easy to blame young tourists, there are many who deserve the blame too, but of course these young kids tend to already have problems, I doubt very much if British people are at all embarrassed by the antics bad as they are of a few mental cases on holiday, but the countries they holiday in could do more about them IMO, drugs, attacks and rapes are commonplace and cheap dangerous alcohol fuel much of it. We watched a barman in Napa throw ten different shots into a glass, set fire to it and sell it to a willing young tourist, aren't the bars equally responsible for the damage they cause?
If you google staying safe abroad, rapes happen in Napa as do constant fights and drug arrests, what is worse is some countries keep it all quiet, so as not to deter other tourists.
Good thing is we know where the kids congregate on holidays, usually parts of Greece, napa and sunny beach Bulgaria and the big majority of real tourists avoid those areas like the plague!
What we all need to be aware of is as tourists in any country on holiday we are more vunerable to crime, and should be much more aware when travelling abroad, opportunists are waiting.
The holidays we take never include youngsters abroad as they wouldn't chose the holidays we have thank heavens. Also most decent parents didn't let seventeen yr olds out to holiday abroad on their own, none of mine ever did. Luckily my kids always had different ideas of a holiday than those who tend to get sensationlised in trash newspapers, one has just moved to Oz as well for two years, her idea of a holiday when young was to pack pack round the world!
So I would leave those tourists out to cause trouble and the countries who basically encourage these tourists there, to sort out the problems themselves while I get on my next cruise.
US citizens are targeted wherever they go - and no one doubts that the ever-growing number of illegal immigrants on European streets (Lyon is the worst I've seen) are not behind increasing crime rates .
