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Old Feb 15th 2010, 5:26 pm
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by Madridboy
I´ve only just realised that I never leave the Goya area of Madrid.
I don't know if it's still going, but on Calle Maldonaldo there's a bar/pub called the Celtic Cross, run by a Scotsman and his Spanish wife. You're quite likely to bump into Brits there, especially when a rugby or football game is being televised. It also gets a lot of Americans too, as it's not too far from their embassy
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Has Castile Leon been mentioned?
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Old Feb 15th 2010, 5:29 pm
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by steviedeluxe
My guess is it would be somewhere like La Rioja or Soria. Places in the deep interior with little tradition of tourism. There again, I would have said Galicia a few years ago, but it now seems that (on this board at least) the odd bod has settled there.
Probably fairly close with La Rioja and Soria, but I would go with Teruel, where the locals complain that the rest of Spain has either forgotten all about them, or does not even know they exist.
Even more cut off now that its been bypassed.

I think all the others mentioned have at least a scattering of Brits.
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Old Feb 15th 2010, 5:33 pm
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly
Probably fairly close with La Rioja and Soria, but I would go with Teruel, where the locals complain that the rest of Spain has either forgotten all about them, or does not even know they exist.
Even more cut off now that its been bypassed.

I think all the others mentioned have at least a scattering of Brits.
I reckon Soria trumps Teruel. I've never met anyone (even on these boards) who's claimed to have been there, even for a few hours. Whereas a few of us have visited Teruel (and enjoyed it too).
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by steviedeluxe
I don't know if it's still going, but on Calle Maldonaldo there's a bar/pub called the Celtic Cross, run by a Scotsman and his Spanish wife. You're quite likely to bump into Brits there, especially when a rugby or football game is being televised. It also gets a lot of Americans too, as it's not too far from their embassy
I´ll have a look at the weekend, it´s only a 5 minute walk from here.




I hope this one´s not turned into a sushi restaurant as well lol
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There's a bar at the top of Alcala called 'The Sportsman'. Huge gloomy place.
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by rugbymatt
Has Castile Leon been mentioned?
Don't think it has.

IME of walking, the area around Salamanca/Zamora and heading back East towards Madrid has the fewest Brits, or any other ex-pat population.

The north coast is heavily populated with Brits, French, Swiss, German and Dutch second home owners at least as far west as Santander. It's very wealthy area with house prices that compare to London.

I've been surprised at just how many Brits are in Galicia, but they're not in the cities - only in rural areas. Very rural! The rural areas that the Spanish gave up long ago.
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by TheLostPhotographer
I've been surprised at just how many Brits are in Galicia, but they're not in the cities - only in rural areas. Very rural! The rural areas that the Spanish gave up long ago.
The same area has strong links with Colombia... if you know what I mean....
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

At a wild guess, probably not too many Brits in either Ceuta or Melilla.
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I lived in Zamora for 6 months in the early 90s, I was the only English-speaking person there (and you can imagine that a twenty something English blonde was quite a revelation for the local guys hehehe!) and pretty much the only foreigner, so I basically got to learn Spanish very fluently as there really was no other choice. I went back a couple of years ago and there were a couple of language schools but still not many "forners".
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by steviedeluxe
My guess is it would be somewhere like La Rioja or Soria. Places in the deep interior with little tradition of tourism. There again, I would have said Galicia a few years ago, but it now seems that (on this board at least) the odd bod has settled there.
I'm gonna be lazy and just say that Brits don't live in parts of Spain that is

1) more than an hour's drive from the coasts (except the north, there's hardly any there)
2) outside of the immediate areas of Madrid and Barcelona

Course that's just a generalization

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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by TheLostPhotographer
Very rural! The rural areas that the Spanish gave up long ago.
There was a programme on Spanish TV about a community, mainly from Benelux countries I think, that set up in some remote Galician semi abandoned village and they all seemed blissfully happy.
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Not many brits in Leicester
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Not many brits in Leicester
Or London
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Default Re: Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly
Probably fairly close with La Rioja and Soria, but I would go with Teruel...
I think all the others mentioned have at least a scattering of Brits.
I think I would agree- with the addition of Huesca and or Burgos. And all these locations are stunningly beautiful in their own way and have great people.
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