German tourists are First to Get Their Towels Down First

British scientists found that an average Briton slept for 7 hours 21 minutes a night, before starting work at 8:50am. In contrast, German citizens, famed for getting up early to secure their sunflowers with a towel, had an average eight minutes less sleep every night and started work 30 minutes earlier.

The University of Oxford study also concluded that when Teutonic alarm clock went off it was rto arely silenced by a 'snooze button', unlike its British counterpart. It found that Germans got up 15 minutes after their alarm went off compared to those in Britain, who lazed under the duvet for an average 20 minutes. It could explain the two mysteries of Anglo-German relations: how do Germans get their beach towels on the sunloungers first and how does their country's economy countinue to outperform that of the Britons.