Smile – you’re on holiday!
Anyone heading for Italy for their holidays should be prepared to endure “glum and stressed-out” locals, according to a report.
According to The Times, research by psychologists in Italy found that the locals’ habit of holidaying at home (only 25 per cent of Italians take their annual break abroad) is making them miserable.
The newspaper quotes Professor Raffaele Morelli, who found that 48 per cent of those questioned were “unwilling to take risks with something as important as their holiday. Everything must be perfect.”
Accordingly, the professor reportedly wrote in Riza Psicosomatica, many Italians “stay in the same room, reserving the same deckchairs and umbrellas. Their neighbours did likewise, so they exchanged the routine of the workplace with the routine of the beach.”
The newspaper reports that nearly half of Italians have been going to the same holiday destination for “at least 10 years”.
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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