Britons coming to Mallorca can’t be that stupid...

Yes, it’s August and the period of the year the media call ‘the silly season’ due to a general lack of news.

More daft travel advice for British tourists. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

Humphrey CarterPalma23/08/2024 09:56

I‘ve seen some headlines and stories in my time, even written some pretty desperate ones myself, but there is one doing the rounds in the UK at the moment which, apart from being laughable, is an insult to British tourists. Well, I hope those who read it take it as one.

The big flap in the UK, and an issue tourists are being “warned about”, is “Spain and Italy holidaymakers urged to check the time each day to avoid closures”. This all because “a lot of shops and businesses across these countries will close for a period of hours in the afternoons for a nap - or a siesta as it’s usually called”.

Now, it’s not as if the siesta is new. In fact, apart from being one of the main attractions of a Mediterranean holiday, many expert studies indicate that those who nap have less risk of heart attacks. Hence why ‘power naps’, as they have become known in Northern European and the United States, are recommended and encouraged by some doctors and companies.

I can neither see the issue nor the need to go into overkill about the fact that we like a siesta, when possible, in Mallorca and the rest of the Mediterranean. However, fewer and fewer people are able to have quick naps because working habits have changed and the main high street shops don’t close at lunchtime any more. It might also be worth pointing out that it’s rather hot at this time of year and a siesta is a good way of avoiding the heat of the day.

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Morgan Williams | about 12 hours ago

I'm not sure why this would come as any surprise. British tabloid media "warns UK tourists" almost daily of imaginary or irrelevant horrors they could face when coming to "Spain" or "Majorca" or wherever. Some of my recent favourites are ... ...the water restrictions in Puigpunyent, which the tabloids "warned UK tourists" about, and framed it as a "Majorca" restriction, although it was limited to Puigpunyent, which is not a place Brits are likely to go. Another good one is the one about liquids in carry on luggage. It's always been 100ml limit. They installed some machines a few months back that supposedly could determine whether any liquid in carry on was any threat, but it turns out they don't work so well, so they went back to the 100ml rule. But this is headlined as a "New setback for Brits", although it really has nothing to do with anything that hasn't always been. Just another "warning" about nothing. And of course, there's the "anti-tourism" movement, broadly parroted in British tabloid media, widely sensationalised to "warn" of the "dangers" to "British tourists", although there was no evidence of any "danger".

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