In other countries, birds and bugs can fly willy-nilly into open windows, because they don’t use screens.
Some countries use bed nets to combat bugs, but the idea of a window screen is an American one.
“I just have to ask this to see if anyone knows why… there are no screens on any of the windows of hotels, homes, etc [sic]. What is up with that?,” one Fodors commenter wrote of Europe.
“I have often wondered that as well… I remember closing windows in Greece cause I thought bugs would get in and waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat,” wrote another.
