travel etiquette
Who doesn't love wet dogs and crazy foreigners? Some don't. Which is why this travel story makes Sartre's "The Look"* seem like the truth...(something for all you philosophical geeks out there)
Imagine you're just casually walking down a pretty remote beach in Germany and you stumble on a pile of clothes. You'll probably begin to wonder where the owner of this mound is. Well it seems that a few tourists walking on that very remote beach in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany called emergency after discovering the abandoned clothing.
The search went on all for three hours, which included helicopter and 25 rescue workers.
Apparently the owner of the clothing was hiding from the search; she was naked. Though to Karen Drechsler's defense she didn't know the search was for her. She was only hiding from shame. She had been at another part of the beach before the search.
"She saw all the police, the coastguard and the helicopter and she thought someone must be in trouble. She didn't imagine they were looking for her," a rescue worker told The Sun.
"She wanted to wait until they'd all gone before she retrieved her clothes. But the longer she waited, the more police arrived."
Source: New AU
Part I of a series of documenting travel joy: indigenous liquor.
Our first stop is Albania. A region known as Arberia during the Ottoman days, which helped boost Christian morale as they resisted the Turks onslaught (as they took over country after country). Sadly because of their persistence in not falling back they suffered continuous warfare. But this is why we toast them and their local home brew liquid delicacies.
Albania
Albanian Moonshine (Raki) an alcoholic beverage sipped artfully by macho men, it is a non-sweet, anise-flavored spirit made from fermented grapes or plums. Same alcohol content to Vodka. And we weren’t kidding about sipping it artfully; it takes a crafted hand to produce Raki—the slightest mistake can turn a potentially perfect batch into a “soft Raki” which is not even worth a rinse and spit—this laborious task deserves respect and an artful approach when sipping this drink.
Not really sure if these boys in the video care much about artful sipping but lesson number 1 in cultural etiquette, always accept a drink from the natives even if it is early in the wee mornings.
Video at travel break.
