British drunks appear all over the world, generally coastal areas, rarely inland, more of a reason for brits to try to learn the language and settle inland to show they are different to the eejuts and wish to make a contribution to the future of the community.

You have obviously not been to many inland places in andalucía, many are full of Brits and Brit bars. The low life moved inland because it's cheaper. Although I know that all you posters on here are the only guiri in the village

It is not very often I am rude to a female but
think of those Y shaped things that oars go in
then say it quickly

yes we have a couple of Brit bars in Granada, not know of any trouble in them, tourists don't last longer than a couple of days before moving on. one bar owned by 2 brits rarely sees brits.
we have some brits in the city but they most definitely not of the heavy duty beer belly, tinnie in hand, argueing over tatoos brits - and their men are usually quieter.
we are the only guiris in a very distinctly Spanish area of the city, although one of the 2 bars in the area is owned by an english speaking senorita she admits to 15 years in Malaga hotels and bars and is glad to get away from the english, and then we walked in. she has offered to help us with our spanish.

it was said on another country section of BE that many brits walk away from meeting other brits, too many complications and requests for help on this that and the other, especially language.

Well I will exclude your area as it's far from the crowd but every puebo I have been in málaga province has Brit run bars and restaurants. You can spot them a mile away, all usually congregating in one bar in a central square. They think they are integrated because the places where they spend their money call them mi amigo Wished I had a euro for every Brit reg car I have seen inland! Alhaurín is teeming with pint swilling Brits, makes fuengirola seem classy

Your crap postings crack me up.

One Brit bar and one Irish bar in Benalmadena pueblo and a hundred Spanish.

we will have to stop meeting like this ..

would love to give you that € for the oh's car, since april it has had a small bump and needed a little repair, most of the rest has been spent trying to get through the ITV ! !
even now with all the certs etc we are waiting for gestor to get it all sorted.

me and my car will be out there shortly and we will have to start all over again.

Totally off topic, tell me to mind my own business if you wish, but what took you there? I understand your Spanish is not great, so why a predominately Spanish speaking area? I'm intrigued! I quite like Granada, been there several times, it suits me fine. I also remember spending a week in nearby Montefrío, there's an accent to struggle with! We booked a place in "a typical Spanish street" according the blurb, we were smack bang in the middle of the gypsy quarter. Pretty rough, but they caused us no trouble, the car was there a week without any problems.

I don't consider benalmádena pueblo as being "inland", just a sprawl of the coast. Although I haven't been for a few years the last time I was there there were more than that but I shall take your word for it. Many years ago we sometimes went to eat in the square, was a typical spanish venta and a nice atmosphere, there was about 3 there. Didn't go for a while and when we went again they were all run by Brits.

Exactly. There are many bars and restaurants that you think are Spanish in Benalmadena Pueblo but they are actually run by Brits pretending to be Spanish. I wouldnt mind, but they've ruined the Spanish food by doing things such as frying embutido de Chorizo and putting gravy on morcilla

Saying that, at least half the places are Spanish and the better ones are next to road through the village where less tourists go

There are also at least 4 British bars/cafes that I've seen walking through the village so think jdr is being generous

why this worry about "off topic" ? We brits could still take flight !
no that shouldnt happen, over the past 20 years we have invested a lot in each other and in "the project" code named Retirement.

oh was offered a job in Granada in an English speaking environment, it was all sorted and moved her (only) out there in 6weeks from offer to move. Works with some very nice helpful Spanish people and a couple of Brits.

first flat near the centre, found from an agency I found on the internet, Juan vy nice guy, just wish he would stop apologising for his poor english and let me get an apology in for my spanish !!
second flat via the same guy, further out of the city near the motorway, my poor spanish is now a joke with the owner of the nearest bar. he has learnt a couple of words of english from his daughter.!

we want to live in spain, we want to integrate as much as we can, as much as the locals will let us, we want to contribute.
this will not happen if we find a rock in an english enclave and crawl under it. this will spoil the experience.

it doesnt matter if it had been Singapore, Thailand, Maldives, or any other foreign country where we dont speak the language - we would make that effort from our side - which is why i get so cross at those who enter uk and dont\wont.

The sensible Brits moved inland not for the price (if you need to ask the price you can't afford it), but to get away from the all fur coat and no knickers Brits on the coast!

Not a Brit bar anywhere near us, and less than a dozen Brits in the area.

There were plenty of Brits around the last time I was around there or have they all suddenly left.

Why do you run the coast down so much when all your spanish relatives live there

No idea how far you are from Álora, but there was one there, but it´s been closed.
http://www.rumoursofalora.com/
I´ve no idea how many Brits there, but we have stayed there a few times, and I definitely got the impression there were more than ten others apart from the two we stayed with. They always seemed to be out dinning with various friends.

I'm at least a ten minute car ride away from Alora, we only go there once a week to shop at Mercadona. Yes there are English there, but we can't even see Alora from where we live...we like it that way!

We are not even in a village it's just a small hamlet, but the nearest village does have a few Spanish bars and a couple of Spanish shops.
There are I believe six English couples in an area that contains about four hundred and ninety people, but it's a wide area so we don't even know them all.

You do rather assume that you know where I live....it's nowhere near Alora town, it's not even visible from where we live!

Just because my relations choose to run their businesses down on the coast doesn't mean we have to live next to them.

The Costa used to be a nice place thirty or forty years ago, but now (for us at least) it's like Butlins with sunshine.
Each to their own, I can understand some people liking it but it's not our style!
When we spend the day there we are always happy to go back home to the campo.....that's not for everyone but it's fine for us!