JLFS

Many a true word spoken in jest............

this is a story in a similar vein about acouple who got married in the Maldives.

I am sure that they were thrilled with the way their wedding went and were showing the footage a photos to all the fimily back home.

As the story goes, they official and staff were insulting them and mocking them in a very cruel way.

When it was posted on Youtube the truth came out........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ve-resort.html

I wonder if the marriage has any legal standing at all.

As J2 said sometimes ignorance IS bliss.

jackytoo

Yes I had a little chuckle when I saw that. Glad my Daughter chose Barbados.

I was once in Zara at the cash desk and one worker said to another "go down to the far end and watch those foreigners they always steal"

whitelinen

Everything in Zara, right down to a bar of soap, has an electronic tag on it which has to be deactivated at the cash desk or sets of alarm when leaving the store.

HBG

I’ve been out and about in my supposedly ‘British’ area this morning, Spanish hospital, Spanish bar and Spanish bank. I was trying to spot a fellow expat, a funny game to play.

It was almost a relief when the obvious expat queuing in front of me at the bank got to the front. He heaped a pile of papers on to the startled bank employee’s desk and the waiting started. Over the next half-hour I began to hate that expat and wondered at the bank employee’s patience. And mine.

When I finally got to sit down and presented my lone and uncomplicated form to him, the chap was making those Spanish hand movements to explain what he thought of his last customer.

I tried to sympathise. ‘Ingleses, eh?’ followed by the hand movements.

‘No’no’no, Aleman’, and the hand movements went into overdrive.

Mitzyboy

They dont have a very good reputation around here

poolboy

there's good & bad people in all walks of life. I know bad Spanish tradesman & good english ones, lazy germans - you just go with your instincts. Not any 1 nationality has a monopoly on friendliness, honesty etc.

I do feel for the people who have moved over & cut their tie with the UK, it will always be your home country.

Also, try & be as legal as you can, someone has to pay for the hospitals, police, roads in Spain.

I still can't see the point in English restaurants abroad though.

JLFS

I dont get that bit about you not seeing the point of English restaurants abroad.

That is like saying you dont see th point of Chinese, Italian, or Spanish restaurants outside of China Italy and Spain.

What a boring world it would be if there were only "natvie" restaurants in each country.

Bigger Jim

I spent 5 years in Germany and almost never encountered a rude German there. I went on holiday on the Med from there and encountered many. Just as we Brits love to recount tales of badly behaved Brits so they recount tales of badly behaved Germans.

In Hong Kong it was common to talk about loud and brash Yanks on the Star Ferries who you could hear the length and breadth of the Ferry. As for integrating try living in Cornwall. The Cornish are renowned for their distrust of foreigners, even unto the third and fourth generation.

Here in Spain one of the reasons we bought a place here was that there was no pressure to "integrate" as many Brits would have you do. Try and define integration. The only people I find who wish for "integration" for all are other Brits.

People are what they are and no ranting and going on about integration will change that

Jim

HBG

I got to thinking about the German who upset the bank clerk today, but as Jim pointed out, people are the same the world over.

The bank clerk was lucky, if that customer had been a Russian, he would have been sitting there with his hands up.

I say that partly in jest, but also because the local Russians have so far shot and killed a Spanish builder and a famous Spanish notary, in separate incidents, and that’s apart from the regular executions within their own community.

I suspect that we don’t get the best quality of foreigners from the eastern part of Europe. I’m frightened to philosophise further, in case my fellow expats come under too much scrutiny, but the villains seem to have congregated on the Costa del Sol around Fuengirola, a traditional resting place for them, and there have also been some well recorded shootings down that way, Brits on Brits. Even Charlie Wilson, the train robber copped it down there, didn’t he?

I got the shock of my life yesterday while sipping coffee in a Spanish bar round the corner when four Guardia Civil GRS walked in and stood next to me. I’m quite tall, but these were giants, and they were armed to the teeth. To my relief they ordered four diet cokes and sat down, but I still scolded myself on the hot coffee.

How do the Spanish put up with us?

Chiclanagir

I don´t want to particularly eat in an English restaurant but I would like the opportunity for more variety than we presently get in the Spanish restaurants. It is chips, chips and more chips and no fresh veg. I love spicy food but even the Indian and Chinese round us aren´t very good. Can I have a Nando´s please.

jackytoo

Yeah, Nandos chicken wings, the fiery one Suprised it hasn't opened in Spain.

I say that partly in jest, but also because the local Russians have so far shot and killed a Spanish builder and a famous Spanish notary

Well good for the Russians

steviedeluxe

I like Nando's, but they serve chips as well! (ok you can choose rice instead). I suspect because you get those places selling roasted chicken (rotisseries, to use the French?) that Nando's don't think it's worthwhile opening in Spain?
I think you generally don't get English restaurants outside resorts (and we're talking most countries), because British food has a bad reputation worldwide. A shame really, as well-prepared good hearty British meals can be superb, with the right ingredients and a decent cook.

steviedeluxe

and you wonder why no-one likes you?

HBG

Well, I do, because I know she's only jesting. Her remark that all the shit goes over their heads is about the most profound thing I've read on this forum.

Extreme views sometimes tell the truth more vividly than all the pussyfooting around.

Where's that Cricketman? He would have something to say on this topic.

jackytoo

didn't you see the wink you tosser Don't exactly post on here for the popularity contest