8 Essential Beach Etiquette Tips Every Maltese Person Needs To Learn
No one does summer quite like Malta, but as the swimming season rolls around, there are a few basic rules we cannot believe need to be explicitly pointed out. But here they are, so please take note.
1. Don’t flap your towel in people’s faces
Please walk a few steps away from the crowds before aggressively flapping your towel free of dust. Pretty basic really.
2. If you’re going to play football, do so as far away from people as possible
The obvious danger is risking a ball to the face, but sand constantly flying at your face isn’t exactly thrilling either.
3. If there are rows of sunbeds, don’t take the one right next to another person
This is the same as basic bus etiquette and urinal etiquette. It’s just awkward.
4. Turn down the volume on your JBL speaker
We don’t need to hear Avicii’s latest identical song on loop all day. Please turn down your bluetooth speaker, and if possible invest in a pair of headphones.
5. Control your children
Kids will be kids, and at a beach they’ll be drawn to litearlly anything – but no one likes having a bucket of water overflowing all over them as a kid loses their balance on the way to their sand castle construction site.
6. Leave a rung between you and the person descending the ladder before you
No that wasn’t squishy moss you stepped on, it was my hand.
7. Allow people up the ladder before you go down
If they’re coming up they’re probably tired from swimming, so don’t leave them to gently drown just so you and your friends can all step in together, stopping half way to complain about how cold it is.
8. Don’t fucking litter
Pretty simple really; just don’t. We’re sick of having to report the number of tonnes collected from beaches each week.