I would have told him to find the offending birds and get them to cough up a partial refund...

We have that problem in London! My husband contents himself with muttering "shut up you feathery ****ers" and putting his pillow over his head.

When I was married our living room and bedroom windows looked out over a smallish pond in a park. Nothing like the lovely sounds of duck/goose sex and coyotes interrupting said coitus for a meal at 4am to encourage sleep.

@paula Tell your husband I feel his pain. We lived in central Washington State for several years..a place that runs rampant with quail 7 months out of the year. Nothing is more irritating than a quail perched on the rooftop of the neighboring building as he screams out his announcement that the sun is rising at 4am. Those little rats with wings are louder than roosters....

Yea had that problem...bird bombs !

Well there is but sadly it's not legal ;)

Well then, who feeds them? 🤣

There are idiots everywhere and polite people everywhere. The same Spanish people who complain about the British being rude/drunk/racist/etc can behave as complete a******s when they travel abroad themselves. I worked as a group leader for several years and I felt like being abducted by an alien spacecraft many times. I learnt that you can be either polite or an arrogant idiot, but that depends on the kind of education you received at home, not your nationality. I've met very "basic" people in little villages, poor and sometimes barely literate, who where extremely polite and helpful; and well off people who could speak two or three languages and had travelled all over the world but behaved like uneducated, obnoxiously entitled red necks. Your passport doesn't define you. Your education does.

Maria Hermida, I don't think that your education makes any difference, it's your upbringing and how your parents, your village, taught you to behave.

I'm French. I can relate also. I'm pissed off so many times about frenchies abroad.

Thanks for saying that. I thought it was us Americans who were the awfulest.

There's a******s of any nationality abroad. There's (dumb and rude) Brazilians everywhere... we even joke that we're a plague. Most polite Brazilians don't want others to know where we're from so we don't get associated with the obnoxious crowd. Some aren't really rude per se, but they basically pack together, create a community and live in a bubbly, trying as hard they can to avoid any local culture - mainly the people who went to other countries to try to earn more money/get more benefits, not because they like the country and wanted to live there.

I'm American and loved Germany when I visited. Clean and friendly. I too am ashamed when I see fellow Americans being a******s.

Elizabeth: as long as you do not behave like those idiots everything should be fine. Lots of Europeans speak English, so you don't have to fear a language barrier.

To be honest I would love to travel the EU but I'm actually too scared to go as the only other language I speak (and very badly) is a little Spanish. I'm too embarrassed to go abroad because I know the reputation of American travels and I don't speak the languages of the countries I want to visit. I do not want to to be a bad guest 🥺☹️

Elizabeth - The reputation of Americans is to hide in their own bubble and think they are the center of the world. Don't hide in that bubble. Go to your library and rent a phrasebook to try and learn a few phrases/words, you will learn more when you visit. Trying is another skill Americans lack, so just attempting a few words will show how much you do care. I am also, unfortunately, an American and have travelled quite a bit. I've learned the above because people in other countries are surprised I am my nationality because I didn't do the negatives mentioned above. Don't be scared to experience and learn because the people around you are stupid.

Sad enough that a lot of hotels offer German food to the tourists because it's too hard to eat something else when you're on vacation. Not to mention trying new food... Too adventurous you know. So when I'm abroad I usually avoid speaking German and use English instead.

Thats a really good idea Janine.

Wait, no German beer meant you weren't a proper Irish pub? That sentence hurts my brain.