Mother, may I go out to swim?
Yes, my darling daughter:
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb
and don’t go near the water.
Apparently, tourists in Spain have been taking this old rhyme too literally.
Last week, the City of Barcelona began distributing posters with the image above, to discourage tourists from walking through the streets and entering shops wearing only their swimsuits. According to the report by Agence France-Press, the posters will be put up “in the metro, buses and in all public areas.” A spokesperson stated that “the mayor has sent letters to businesses, hotels, bars, restaurants … encouraging them to download the poster and paste it on their walls.”
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