Three Things
Thousands of Germans have booked holidays on Mallorca over the Easter break despite (or because of) the fact that vacations in the Bundesrepublik are verboten. Business owners on the Balearic island have been bending over backwards to accommodate north European sun seekers, even offering those who test positive for the coronavirus free quarantine in a local hotel. The rest of the local population must have been praying that the German government would follow through on a threat to go full GDR and stop people leaving the country. Germans have a deep and, one can only assume, unrequited love for Mallorca. Teutonic tourists on the island are notorious for mass sing alongs to music so atrocious that no adjectives can truly do it justice. (Trigger warnings for anyone who has spent a night out on the Ballermann) see for yourselves here, here and here. Sure enough, within a couple of days of ze Germans arriving some Holzköpfe were already shooting the first Malla mega hit of the …
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