Funny isn't it, the OH and I have just been discussing bread and can't wait to get back to Chiclana next month to buy and eat the multi seeded bread in Mercadona . We find it to be much superior to anything you can get in UK supermarkets. The closest here appears to be Warburtons seeded batch but it still isn't a patch on that in Mercadona.

As to supermarkets in Germany two of the largest are Lidl and Aldi both to be found in profusion in Spain. It was not all that long ago I read that Walmart (ASDA's parent company pulled out of Germany because their level of service with meeters and greeters didn't appeal to the Germans who preferred the no frills approach of supermarkets such as Lidl and Aldi.

I also read that Carrefoures and Tesco went head to head in the Far East and Tesco pulled out with their tail between their legs. Its horses for courses really and I can't count the number of people I meet in Spain who had never dreamt of going into a Lidl's or Aldi supermarket in the UK but swear by them in Spain. Am I not also right in thinking that the Champion supermarket in Chiclana, near Macdonalds, was a small offshoot of Carrefoures?

I think that distance lends enchantment because one of my pets hates in our local Tesco branch is their bread is always a couple of days older, or so it seems, than that of ASDA in Poole which is always much fresher.

But we really do like that bread in Mercadona.

Regards

Jim






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My car is a new LHD BMW 320 collected near Munich!

So, they have to measure it??????????????

Yep!

AND you'd better know how much it weighs!

I think the best bread I have found in Spain is an organic brown loaf in Carrefour. Must say that I have never tried Mercadonna, or Lidl or Aldi in Spain. In Britain they are variable..in some areas truly spartan and basic, in others quite different. However Aldi in Germany is somethng else. In Frankfurt I ended up shopping nowhere else. The range was astonishing. Smoked salmon and Gravadlax. The cheeses, the bread, the wine. I guess the Germans have higher expectations, so they are forced into catering for them. In Britain not so, though I am glad to say that it is changing rapidly.

I like the Mercadona bread too.

[QUOTE=Bigger Jim;4437695]Funny isn't it, the OH and I have just been discussing bread and can't wait to get back to Chiclana next month to buy and eat the multi seeded bread in Mercadona . We find it to be much superior to anything you can get in UK supermarkets. The closest here appears to be Warburtons seeded batch but it still isn't a patch on that in Mercadona.


You only have to look at me to see how much bread I eat, I have never eaten as much bread as I do here in Chiclana. My very thin sister is always telling me off about the amount of bread I eat, but she makes me laugh when she is out here because she will eat a whole fresh loaf of the stuff to herself given half the chance.

Order of Preference for fresh bread:Carrefour, Mercadona, Supersol; please don't get me started about the bread shops in La Barrosa.......I think I need full elasticated waist instead of half elasticated

It's nice to be able to get fresh bread from the petrol stations as well. I must admit I don't care where I shop as most places have fish, fruit and veggies and I don't eat packet or tinned food so I'm easily pleased. I also don't cook very often, so eat out all the time, and as long as there are healthy options I'm a happy bunny.

Better get it independantly weighed. You can trust what BMW says can you?

It will be interesting to see if it has gained any weight since it was manufactured.

If it is full of diesel I could give myself all sorts of issues couldn't I?

Is it best to remove the CD's before it is weighed?

My this really is crucial!!

My husband said if ours was too high he was going to let the tyres down.

Make sure the paperwork says which side the steering wheel is on (seriously!). What size the tyres are too.

Its the easiest way to tell if its had modifications by measuring, IE : lowered suspension, or wide wheels, or larger wheels, or different bumpers, or tow bars etc.

So, they charge the £1000 and they register your car. You now have Spanish plates.

The next day, you lower the suspension half an inch, or, you fit a towbar..

Now what happens?

After 5 years, I expect most cars have dropped half an inch anyway, just weight on the suspension. So what happens to all these cars that do not measure up?

That's what I mean, it is just all pointless. So damn complicated for negative benefit.

As a result, most of the cars driving round here are on UK or German plates!

Just make sure that when it goes for its ITV the alterations are no longer in evidence, there is someone on this forum who has to change his sterring wheel from a small one back to the manufactiurers one each time so it will pass.

Yes Champion were part of the Carrefour group, and , at least here, has been renamed Carrefour and gives points etc. Mercadona is probably the most Spanish of the supermarkets round this area with the smallest range of UK good, but still is the one we mainly shop at, however it does lack a decent carnicera and sells little in the way on non prepacked fresh meat, and NO loose vegetables or fruit so we also use our local Lidl, and also the Saturday market for fresh veg etc.