Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Dear German tourists






















Dear German tourists, I love how you love Sweden. And I love how you embrace the concept of the allemansrätt. I just don't love how you look at us inhabitants like exotic species. Like ferrets, lemmings or moose. Peculiar, but kind of cute. In a natural kind of way.

Yes, we are weird because we insist on swimming naked during the summer. But you are weirder for not respecting the privacy that naked swimming demands. You fishing right next to our pier is uncalled for. Fish a little further away.

Yesterday, my brother couldn't take it anymore. He heard himself scream, from where he was in the water, in English: "you're fishing too close to our naked swimming point".

You obliged and moved a little bit away from the naked swimming point, but did not apologize.
We're still upset.