Albir_Tom

Have any of you ever seen this fantastic video on YouTube ? If you haven’t please take a moment and enjoy. I think it’s great and how I wish I would have been able to come to Spain in those days.

Here you go..

big wheels

I wish I could have too.
We were lucky to get a day trip to Cleethorpes back then.

growinspain

I like watching old pathé films and wishing (well my family) bought land on the cote d azur years ago... France - Nice/Cannes area.

olivefarmer

In the seventies, I worked with an elderly woman whose family used to holiday on the Costa del Sol after the first world war. The family were butchers in Leicester’s Frog Island.

they flew to Madrid and then got the mail plane Madrid to Malaga. No cargo door.

we have fond memories of a tapas bar - cava and eats in old Benidorm 40 years ago. At the time, I thought it was disgusting that people just dropped their napkins etc on the floor. How times change!

growinspain

Depending on were you go, they still do

Albir_Tom

Yes just like this video when my Nan and Grandad first started going to Benidorm the only way to get there was flight to Valencia and then the coach down to benidorm.

I use a tapas bar in Alicante centre called d’tabla and the floor is always flooded with serviettes

growinspain

So; now you do not think it is disgusting or you thought the Spanish would have evolved a little?

Ronnyone

They throw napkins on floor as it is more hygienic and cleaner.Napkins are swept up by owners and are not touched . Doesnt matter if you stand on them.

tebo53

I go to several Tapas bars in different areas in Benidorm and I don't see napkins strewn all over the floor even at the busiest of times......

Steve

Albir_Tom

Proper tapas bars in busy cities it’s normal, it’s just what they do. Those serviette dispensers that you see on bars and tables with extra thin serviettes inside them that’s what people screw up and throw on the floor.

Moses2013

Same here and wish the parents had bought a nice plot along the coast on the Costa Brava back then. Now you need around 30K for something decent that's 15mins drive from the coast and more like 150K+ near the beach in cheaper parts.

Albir_Tom

It’s like winning the lottery when you think about it. You see these video’s of places when the coasts were unbuilt and untouched, Spanish families and families from places a like seen tourists starting to come, knew that the weather, man made beaches and the sea was going to make those places a gold mine and purchased plots of land and sold to hoteliers and builders and all sorts some years later.

I was told a story by a Spanish guy once about the land on the coast in Benidorm, I can’t for the life of me remember what it was now though lol something about the locals getting the rights to a piece of land each maybe something along those lines.

Xisle

About 25 years ago I crossed paths with some Costa Brava hoteliers in Manhattan.They were en route to Cuba,seemingly to invest in hotel development down there.Progressive thinking I recall and probably continuing a historical connection between the two regions.

Moses2013

Don't want to go off topic, but here a link and especially in Begur there is still a strong connection https://www.callcarlos.eu/blog/begur-costa-brava

These days you need a healthy budget, the area is stunning though. Unfortunately a lot of the coastline has been destroyed in Spain, the area around there has escaped the worst of development. Here a really interesting podcast in English about the challenges Catalonia faces today, trying to find the balance between development and nature.


https://catalannews.podbean.com/e/saturation-point-%e2%80%93-development-versus-conservation-on-the-catalan-coast/