[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't think manners are anything to do with where you come from....or where you are going for that matter. It is to do with respecting other human beings. Not swearing where older people or women are present....OK, I know that there are some women who can swear better than men......but it isn't big and it isn't clever, and shows a definite lack of linguistic ability.
Alcohol...well, it seems to me that no holiday is a good holiday unless you have consumed copious quantities of alcohol from the moment you wake up each day until the moment you collapse in a heap...unable to drink anymore.....until you have sicked up your dinner in front of foreign strangers........and then started drinking again. What a sad indictment of our society this is.