Got back from the Algarve tonight & the above is my opinion of The residents of this place.

It costs 15 euros for 2 sun beds & a parasol on the beach.

Some places it costs about the same for a large beer as a pint in England & it's not even a pint.

The residents are rude & unhelpful & seem to be brain dead. I thought the Spanish were a bit sullen but these people are on another level.

AS for lazy, half of them can't manage to get their shops open by 10 o clock, although this point didn't affect me personally.

Something I forgot to add to the title in the heat of my raving was Entertainment. Last night in our hotel bar it was a red indian with a guitar & drum machine reading off sheet music & turning off the drums a few beats after each track finished.

Night before was bongo man who did numbers such as Angels( Robbie Williams) with bongo accompanyment.

Every other night was Karaoke which basically means entertain yourself.

Thoroughly enjoyed it apart from that.

:D

Anybody else with the same findings?

I hate spain. It doesn't even deserve a capital letter.

 

The land scape is fowl. Rocky, dusty with no colour. The people are arogant, bitter and self centred.

 

Dont forget this is still a country where they enjoy watching some one killing a drugged up bull.

 

The EC pays for spanish (Again no capital letter) farmers to grow crops only for them to waste it throwing it about.

 

San Migel or what ever its called, tastes shit. People only buy it because it's cheap over there.

 

As you can tell I dont like spain.

 

They can't even play football. Yeah great domestic teams (well 2 maybe 3), but the spanish International team is the only one worse than England.

 

Stuart

er what geography lessons did u skip at school, algarve is portugal, they speek portuguese and portugal is the 2nd poorest country in the EU, when i went to albufarer or summat a 1 litre botttle of beer was 40p from suparmaket, no more than 1.20 in pubs, admitadley this was 4 years ago, proves that euros is pants i think

Originally posted by SRRAE

I hate spain. It doesn't even deserve a capital letter.

 

The land scape is fowl. Rocky, dusty with no colour. The people are arogant, bitter and self centred.

 

Dont forget this is still a country where they enjoy watching some one killing a drugged up bull.

 

The EC pays for spanish (Again no capital letter) farmers to grow crops only for them to waste it throwing it about.

 

San Migel or what ever its called, tastes shit. People only buy it because it's cheap over there.

 

As you can tell I dont like spain.

 

They can't even play football. Yeah great domestic teams (well 2 maybe 3), but the spanish International team is the only one worse than England.

 

Stuart

 

Kiddo..You know nothing about cars and obviously even less about geography and peoples of the big wide world.Have you ever even left Wigan??:D

In stuarts defence, there is a spanish algarve.:)

Been holidaying in the Algarve for 15 years so obviosly don't agree. So in reply,

 

Never understood the need for a sunbed on a beach, a couple of towels does the job.

Depends where you buy your beer, the most expensive places are usually the non-Portuguese owned bars!, drink the wine at £1.50 a bottle, it's a wine country.

I think 'reserved' would be a better description of the Portuguese, probably not the most outgoing personalities but given a bit of politeness and respect it's usually returned.

Shops open at 10a.m. still open at 10p.m.

I've always found hotel type entertainment pretty naff anywhere I go, it's not the entertainment capital of the world it's more a 'sit outside ,have a drink, watch the world go by ' sort of place.

holidays are rife with rip-offs. Easy money. Best staying at home ;) :D

D'oh. Wasnt paying much attention.

Oh yeah, its a right p|sser when people do exactly as they please in their own country.

Dammit cant they open the shops up at 6am, stock The Sun newspaper and Watneys Red Barrel and gor blimey why dont they speak English or what.

 

Go to f***ing Blackpool next time.

 

Lazy, Greedy and Thick - here is me thinking it was bash the bloody Tory Party time again - YAY! but instead we got the usual anti-foreigner sh|te.

 

Those are my findings, thanks for asking.

Originally posted by senna

Oh yeah, its a right p|sser when people do exactly as they please in their own country.

Dammit cant they open the shops up at 6am, stock The Sun newspaper and Watneys Red Barrel and gor blimey why dont they speak English or what.

 

Go to f***ing Blackpool next time.

 

Lazy, Greedy and Thick - here is me thinking it was bash the bloody Tory Party time again - YAY! but instead we got the usual anti-foreigner sh|te.

 

Those are my findings, thanks for asking.

 

time for some more medication Glen!! :D

If everybody stopped going to the Algarve (complete with big A) they would all die because tourism is the only way they earn money to buy food.

The only thing they produce is oranges which are sent to Brittain to make marmalade which they then buy back from us.

The Algarve cork factory has now been turned into a museum to show us how they used to do a bit once upon a time.

Peter, I don't like wine & don't think I should be penalised for being a beer man.

Also Peter, reserved is being a bit kind to them, I watched a woman get *****cked for taking a long time chosing some sun glasses (before you say it, I suppose it was her own fault and she should have bought them before she went there) but a bit of common courtesy costs nothing.

Srrae, they're just the same except Algarve starts with a capital.:D :D ;)

Think about it guys, if you lived in a warm sunny place with beautiful scenary and fantastic beaches, you'd be quite happy. But if the only way you could make a living was to let in all the "here we go" yobs that typify the british on holiday, then you'd be a tad reserved too (or down right pi**ed off with the whole deal !)

 

The only one's I have a problem for is the moaning brits, who expect everyone to be able to speak English, convert their prices into sterling and be polite whilst having the pi** taken out of them!

 

I can just imagine how you'd all feel if you got that treatment from tourists over here!

 

(oh and I don't really care for the hard selling touts that you find in the real package holiday resorts either!)

 

Anyway - I'm off to stay in the South of France for a few weeks, where I will speak only French to French people, drink only French wine, eat only french food and (I pray) not meet another brit till I get back to the airport!

 

:D

Originally posted by NigelBoyd

Anyway - I'm off to stay in the South of France for a few weeks, where I will speak only French to French people, drink only French wine, eat only french food and (I pray) not meet another brit till I get back to the airport!

 

:D

 

Remember the war ?

Originally posted by Nelson MainFella

Remember the war ?

 

Yeah, because dragging up 50 year old prejudices really advances society..

They don't like it up 'em Mr Mainwaring!!!:D :D

Originally posted by aaronjb

Yeah, because dragging up 50 year old prejudices really advances society..

 

I meant the Gulf War lol :D

They don't like it up 'em Mr Mainwaring!!!

 

LMDO :D:D (Laughing Mon Derriere Off) :D:D

Dave

Wish I'd not said anything now;)