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Scientific breakthrough found in combat against German Lounger Stress Disorder

July 28, 2009 By in Habitudes Tags: Leave a comment

Well, it isn’t all that scientific really. But it is a step forward in the ongoing battle against GLSD. European vacation specialists seem to have finally come up with an antidote to the dreaded early morning German vacationer ritual of draping a beach towel over the first vacant sun lounger he or she can find (some call it “bed bagging bingo”). But, then again, maybe they haven’t.

We were here first again already.

Thomas Cook is now giving Germans, genetically programmed as they are to reserve deckchairs wherever and whenever they find them, the option of pre-booking their loungers long before they ever even get to there, wherever that is. On vacation, I mean. Whether or not this will put an end to the long-running beach towel wars between Germany and the rest of the world as we know it remains to be seen of course. So stay tuned or something.

„So far, the offer only applies to winter holidays booked in Germany.“

Saving on vacation?

January 21, 2009 By in Heconomy Tags: Leave a comment

From the folks here at vacation nation? I have my doubts, really. I mean, I’m doing my best to deny what’s going on out there as well as the rest of you out there are. I’m really trying to pretend that this financial crisis thing won’t be the financial crisis thing that we are being led to believe it is. But, well, when Germans start saying that they are ready to begin skimping on vacations, that’s when the alarm bells start going off with me.

  

 The cheaper the better.

 

Perennial vacation masters of the world, word is out that “vacation travel cannot escape the economic crisis”, not even German vacation travel, and a survey now indicates that Germans themselves may actually be prepared to spend even less money than they already do when it comes to escaping their country for a few weeks several times each year. Some are even said to be prepared to consider maybe even to start perhaps thinking about maybe spending part of their vacation time, gulp, here. That’s right, here, as in Germany. We’re talking crisis now, people.

 

So now one of the few options left open for many a panicked German vacationer is to go vacationing in REALLY Billigländer (el cheapo countries) like the US of A, or US-Amerika if you prefer. This has something to do with the strong euro or the weak dollar or something, I forget (it’s not the yen, though).

 

And if you look carefully at that picture of New York up there, really carefully, you can see a few of them there Germans right now. No, not there, more towards Fifth Avenue. Higher, up there, that group bargaining with the hot dog vendor.

 

„Doch der heilige Haupturlaub ist noch nicht bedroht.“