NORTH-EAST holidaymakers fare the worst when it comes to chatting up locals abroad, according to a survey.
Mobile phone travel insurance company Text2Insure found that Londoners were the most successful, with 38 per cent having had a fling or romantic encounter with a non-English speaking person while on holiday.
Only 17 per cent of North-East travellers have tried to use their linguistic skills to find love on foreign shores, the survey claimed.
Other groups with good chat-up lines included East Anglians and those from South East England.
Those less likely to have had a romantic encounter with the locals included Scots and people from Yorkshire and Humberside.
Spain is the country where most Britons have a holiday romance with a local, followed by France, Germany, Italy and Greece.
The survey was based on responses from 1,028 people.
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