Civilization
Civilization

Summary/Abstract: Yet another thing that makes us different from the tourists is the fact that we never or only rarely eat at restaurants? This unsaid unease is a commonplace of a small island town. But our dear friends who are guests in our house are adamant and persistent, they are almost blackmailing us, they will most certainly get offended if we don’t let them take us to dinner to the fancy restaurant whose terrace borders on the beach. My wife and I keep declining, while our son, who is not even seven years old, jumps up and down on the couch and keeps repeating in the rhythm of his hopping: Let’s go! Let’s go! We’re finally disarmed, sense and friendship have won over the rigid norms of customs.

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