When they are not naked, they are “incredibly well dressed”, according to Peter Hughes. “They all wore clothes suited to an activity far smarter than the one in which they were engaged. Men wore ties on the promenade deck.”
This buttoned-up demeanour was a common theme among the other Telegraph Travel contributers I canvassed, who were of the opinion that Germans find it very difficult to let their hair down, even on holiday. That apparent lack of humour came up too