For literally decades....if you'd brought up the topic of Mallorca, Spain (the isle) and vacations....your German associate would have gone to a grin, and then started discussing 'partying' and heavy consumption of booze (a lot of booze).
Mallorca was legendary. It was the place where young and old Germans flew in the summer period.....spent a week or two....took on a vast amount of booze (beer, wine, and cocktails)....and then did stupid stuff. Relationships were started, with neither party remembering how they met. Guys woke up on the beach missing their clothing.
Over the past decade....the situation has gotten to a point where the locals (Spaniards) are a bit peeved and want something to occur...to trim back the consumption of booze.
So ARD (German public TV, Channel One) brought up this topic today.
Strict rules are going up for 2020 in Mallorca, and alcohol will be more difficult to come by.
Happy hours? Gone. The 'all-you-can-drink' binge drinking deals (at a heft price anyway)? Gone. Grocery shops selling booze? They have to shut down by 9:30 PM. Machines in public selling the small mini-bottles? Gone. The 'two-beers-for-one' deal? Gone.
What'll likely happen? I think a number of Germans will look at the rule changes, and just say 'enough'.....avoiding the Mallorca vacation. Cash flow pain? If you watched one-third of the business go away....just about everyone would freak out from the Spanish side of this discussion. My guess is that Romania and Bulgaria will both pump up their chatter, and try to take the party-image to their beaches.
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Mallorca was the first stop of the USS America (CV-66) in 1981, on my first deployment when I was in the Navy. Talk about drinking, 5000 thirsty sailors!
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