The characters you meet on holiday....

[NoMercy]

Following on from what I was telling Salla on the GMT, I was wondering if you, like me, tended to encounter hilarious or just downright bizarre people on holiday - whether they are your fellow countrymen or foreigners.

When I used to go away with my mother on girly hols, we always gave these characters names according to who they reminded us of. When we were in Malaga about 10 years ago we met friends we ended up calling "kipper breath", "Rob Roy", "Fraggle Rock" and so on.... LOL

Have you met any memorable people whilst on holiday?

[Sqad]

NoMercy...good morning.
Many years ago mrs sqad and I were on holiday in Antigua and I stood at the hotel foyer booking a private plane to the Island if Barbuda. A right little "*******" came up and said could he share the plane and the cost with his "friend!" Of course I agreed and when I got back to the room mrs sqad was not pleased and gave me a b0llocking.

We all 4 met up at the airport next day and his friend turned up.......gorgeous, long legged, the shortest if shorts, t1ts to die for and she was a German model...LOL LOL

Again mrs sqad was not at all pleased......LOL

I had a fantastic day out.

[NoMercy]

LOL Sqad - We met a hilarious German guy called Manfred when we were last in Cyprus. He spoke excellent English, but then most of them do. Puts the English to shame really !!

The Malaga hol was hilarious. We ended up in a hotel called The Balmoral, which the locals referred to as "The old folks home". Anyway, we ended up meeting a huge party of Sarf Londoners (all male) who were there celebrating a 40th birthday. One night a little asian guy came round selling red roses, and the birthday boy bought me the entire bunch. When I wasn't looking, these two rather large lasses, dressed for the Nuclear age, were nicking my roses and biting the heads off them and spitting them on the floor !

[Sqad]

NoM...lovely touch....Roses for a Blue lady?

[NoMercy]

Blue lady???

Please explain....

[Sqad]

It's a bleedin song......I can't come out with one liners all the time...LOL

O.K the song should go...." I bought some red roses for a white lady"....is that better?

[Bbbananas]

There was Steve - aka 'Big Bambooey in the Yellow Shorts' in Jamaica. All eyes, male & female, followed his track across the beach in a morning - it brought many a tear to people's eyes...

On the same holiday there was Konrad - aka 'Mr Pink Speedos'. Once again - impeccable English, impeccable manners and a very peckable hrmph... and 'Caspar the Friendly Ghost' - a Jamaican that tiny you could count his ribs, he swept the beach every morning, singing his Reggae and regularly disappeared behind the nearest palm tree to smoke his Ganja. The most chilled out man in the world.

[rinkins]

Err sqad, no.

[Bbbananas]

Can I just add - I don't make a habit (much) of studying men's groins..... It's just that some are SO obvious FFS.
:-)

[pericat]

Morning all. When we go to America and being Irish we tend to get stopped by all sorts wanting to tell us where they are from. We've been yelled at from across restaurants wanting to know were we Irish and followed by a big WOW. They should try the weather here! Three quarters of Americans seem to have roots here

[NoMercy]

Oh right !!

Anyway, isn't Barbuda like the sister island of Antigua? I remember reading that the Barbudians are unusually tall..... is that true?

I went on one of those little Island hopper planes once, from St. Lucia to Union Island in the Grenadines.

[rinkins]

NM I did exactly that trip last year!! Scariest plane ride I have ever done!! Beautiful though and got to swim with turtles off the back of the catamaran

[Bbbananas]

This particular holiday I've just returned from - one of the islands we visited was Belle Isle. It has quite a large hippie, surf-dude type community. Lots of eccentrics.

There was one couple who used to drive through the streets on a motorbike - he on the front dressed as whatever took his fancy that day, her on the back dressed as a bride playing the tuba while they rode. They'd stop off every now & then at a cafe, do an impromptu tuba & harmonica ensemble, then back on the bike.... Brilliant, I loved it.

[NoMercy]

LOL Salla - the various Islanders of the Caribbean and W.I. do seem to be so laid back it's untrue...

Peri - Do you find that all the Americans say, "Oh my God.... I love your accent" ??

[Sqad]

NoM...yes,,,Barbuda is a small island about 20 mins flying time from Antigua. One hotel when I went, but now an upmarket playground for the likes of salla and peri...LOL

[Bbbananas]

Upmarket playgrounds?!! Not for me thank you. I'd rather have the surf dude colonies & the hippie eccentrics fraternity any day.

[leggionaire]

I just seem to meet the dregs of the uk

everyday i passs tattooed bleach blonde wrinkly grannies with piercings shouting to chardonnay or beckham as they wander around in bikinis that show more wrinkles and veins than i require to see.


one of them looked like a map of the london subway

complete with jal=panese tattoo of her name.

handy if she runs into a japanese tourist here who wants to shag her i guess??




uk home of the kyle nation

[rinkins]

When I was in the States at Christmas we found that as soon as the Americans realise you're form the UK they assume you know their sister-in-law's cousin's neighbour's best mate who happens to live about 400 miles from where you do.

[NoMercy]

Hi Rinkins - we never went on the Catamaran, we actually went on the ship that was later used in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. I was swimming off the coast of one of the uninhabited islands, and seemed to be miles out, when all of a sudden an American woman came swimming up to me asking if I had a pen, because she wanted to sign a travellers cheque. Yeah sure, I always keep a Bic in my bikini !! Anyway, I name her the "Gremlin". She had the most pointy ears you could ever imagine !! lol

[Bbbananas]

Leg - you sound like you live in an episode of 'Benidorm'.

Don't your fellow Brits let you down eh?!!

[pericat]

Yes get that all the time - I really don't see it (or hear it). When our 15 year old was a baby we were told she was the most Irish looking baby - whatever that is