WAV, I think you can't tell the difference between multiculturalism and tourism. Going on holiday, even on a shoestring and even to lots of exotic places has nothing to do with multiculturalism. It really is just going on holiday. Who was it who talked about "a cheap holiday in someone else's misery"? Ah, that great English icon Johnny Rotten. With his Irish roots and love of dub reggae.

Your sophorific English idyll never existed outside of the minds of the Pre-Raphaelites.

I prefer the place where another English icon with Irish roots said: "Where taxi drivers never stop talking under slate grey Victorian skies".