Holiday with language difficulties/Sprachprobleme im Urlaub

David Barnish represented himself in the county court and won damages from the travel company Thomson, but his case was snapped up by the newspapers and ridiculed nonetheless. He booked a holiday in a hotel where so many of the services were in German and for Germans that he couldn't use them. There was only one non-German TV channel, and there was a children's club his daughter couldn't use because it was German. The Telegraph report is fairly subdued. But then there's the second Telegraph report, with obligatory photograph of a lounger with a towel on it. There are plenty of British holidaymaker who can't bear the thought of a certain nationality always being first to the sun loungers - but one got so angry about being surrounded b…

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