Originally Posted by Fortaleza

Nice comeback. That really told me!!!

Originally Posted by Fortaleza

You mean the one I resigned from????

Why don't you go back through past editions of said paper and a) show me where it said Fortaleza was the editor, and b) where there was negative coverage of your ghetto.

I think that whatever people think of me on here - and I hope it's all bad - people know that I did quite the opposite with our coverage of Fadesa and Esuri, publishing stuff that other people didn't at the time have access to. Thus fulfilling the role of providing a service to those incapable of following Spanish media coverage.

So whilst you think you are making a valid point you are on extrememly shakey ground particularly as I have the evidence right here on this very PC I'm using now.

Also, who made you the decider of who should say what on a public open forum. Isn't that for the site owners, and their team of moderators? The title of this thread is Costa Esuri-Ayamonte. It is open for comments from all sides of the debate, not just one side. And that's what grates you all most of all - that I and others don't join in your happy, back slapping fest. And why should I be forced to support British 'businesses' especially given the cowboy nature of more than a couple of them. With some of these British businesses closing down now, who was fooling who? I still have my two businesses intact - neither of which have anything exclusively to do with expats (why in God's name would you want to restrict your market so much????)

But I suppose living in such an expat goldfish bowl it's easy to get caught up in your own world. If you only knew some of the ideas being thrown around by the council for the future of the Esuri site it would make your skin crawl. I doubt they will happen as these are, and one idea in particular, pretty off the wall. But being discussed nevertheless.

Originally Posted by olivia

If someone could tell us the nature of your two businesses. I think we on this forum could ensure you get no more British business [however insignificant]. Particularly from owners on Esuri.

Originally Posted by Fortaleza

That's it - we have to close down!!!!!!! The Ghetto Strikes Back!! Revenge of the Ghetto!!!! What will we do now???? It is heartbreaking, it really is!!!!

One business is purely local, the other I have clients from Madrid, Seville, Marbella, Zaragoza and a few in the Algarve. But I'll be sure to make sure we do a marketing drive for your lot next time around!!!

One thing to ponder over your morning coffee in the plaza alongside your fellow Brits - how many Ayamontinos are wondering 'You know, this plaza used to be a nice place to come. Thesedays, I feel a stranger in my own town!'

Fishing is particulary good today!!!!

Originally Posted by Fortaleza

Darling, both my businesses existed here long before your lot arrived, so I ain't gonna cry over a few Brits passing through, before selling up.

Originally Posted by olivia

Good for you! when's the next Guadiana Weekly out? I look forward to reading it!

Originally Posted by MikeJ

sorry - vitriol

Originally Posted by Bamba9

That's it, I've waited 3 years for this, as I fellow resident of the area, had food poisoning from the local cafe (and no where it is), had more than enough thrown at me from saddos at CE, there are more good folk up there than vice or PRESIDENTS of a community!!! but please, someone tell me where a good lawyer can be found............................................. not just Ayamonte, Lepe, Tavira, Malaga..............they are all the same, I thought I'd met one unti???............. we all have a story, they all smile, they all agree to do what we want them to do, we all can say how good they are!!!??? they haven't a chance, there are some really goods one's until some numbskull form CE says otherwise, its all too easy to insult someone from here because too many people spend too much time dishing people without getting the proof, lets face it, for some people how they can live without CE................how sad it that??? c u in 3 years from someone who really enjoys but can't understand ES XX

Originally Posted by MikeJ

Just back from a week in CE - warm, sunshine all week, Friendly welcome from all we met. Warm enough for picnics on the beach.
Had a nice meal in Jags which is looking really great after the makeover. Now called Jag's Place so should be easier to find (There goes one topic for the thorum or fred). Also went to Luis's, whose proud boast that "although the service is crap the food's good" has survived his move 150m up the hill in Monte Francisco.

BTW what's all this about a Brit ghetto? As far as I can see from the ownership register nearly 75% is owned by Spanish - some chap called Martina Fedesa

PS: Hope the bland defuses the vitiol