All I get for the blog at the moment is a google server error message.

I wonder what the El Reg equivalent of the slashdot effect should be called?

With reviews like that it will be the 'in' place for chavs to holiday.

Shame...

I believe verbifying the word "vulture" is called for in this case. As in, "My crappy blog was in The Reg, now it's been vultured".

Well, given the fact that the English Tourist Abroad has had a reputation both on the Continent and at home from the mid seventies* onward for an attitude they didn't have a name for at the time**, this website could be seen as an exercise in self-fulfilling irony at the expense of the posters rather than jingoism run rampant.

No doubt I am being naïve.

* And possibly earlier; I'm relating personal experience here.

** But "chav" seems a pretty good fit, at least from a behaviour standpoint

..and Steve - I think you're being uneccesarily bitter: Isn't all news just re-churned press releases nowadays?

a) I'm sure the one for Wollacombe is my family

b) the one for Amstetten, Austria made coffee come out of my nose

"In the early 90s I was on holiday in Curfu [sic], I went out one night got so horrifically drunk on cheap cocktails and beer, I woke up in the morning feeling really unwell in a strange grubby room alone, with a sore arm and bruised face and body, and an empty wallet, there was a used syringe on the floor, apparently I had been mugged, had my wallet emptied of a couple of hundred pounds and in return they filled me with heroine [sic]. I’ve never wanted to try drugs and I’m crap scared of needles so I certainly didn’t volunteer to do it willingly."

How is this in any way worse than what would happen in this country?! He should thank himself lucky he didn't have his face rearranged or set alight in a large dustbin behind the nightclub for the sum of £5.

Maybe the reality is he's a complete prick, since he has such a shitty time everywhere he goes with himself...

The Kathmandu one is pretty funny as well, but the Austria one takes the biscuit!