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[BionicRab]

Anywhere in Benalmadena that will be showing the game on sunday? (going over for a long weekend)

[Dub]

Originally Posted by BionicRab

Anywhere in Benalmadena that will be showing the game on sunday? (going over for a long weekend)

The place is full of english pubs / english restaurants / english karaoke bars. I would suggest that you find one of the smaller ones and speak nicely to the owner and they may accomodate your request especially if theres a decent amount of you. Have you been before? I stayed there with a few mates on a golf tour - bacon and eggs for brekky was the choice every fekking day

[SG7nil]

AS it's against the Septic I had assumed that there would have been an entry in here...

Hail Hail the Celts are Here

However Benalmadena seems to be the only place in the world that has not been colonised by the soapies!

Torremolinos is really nearby and there is this place...

BAILEY'S BAR, CALLE SAN MIGUEL, TORREMOLINOS

I'm sure that there will be plenty boozers advertising the game on chalk boards when you get there!

[BionicRab]

Originally Posted by Dub

The place is full of english pubs / english restaurants / english karaoke bars. I would suggest that you find one of the smaller ones and speak nicely to the owner and they may accomodate your request especially if theres a decent amount of you. Have you been before? I stayed there with a few mates on a golf tour - bacon and eggs for brekky was the choice every fekking day

Haven't been before but we're in an apartment self catering so i'll be making my own style of spanish eggs and bacon paella stylee

Originally Posted by SG7nil

AS it's against the Septic I had assumed that there would have been an entry in here...

Hail Hail the Celts are Here

However Benalmadena seems to be the only place in the world that has not been colonised by the soapies!

Torremolinos is really nearby and there is this place...

BAILEY'S BAR, CALLE SAN MIGUEL, TORREMOLINOS

I'm sure that there will be plenty boozers advertising the game on chalk boards when you get there!

Thinks its a bit more uppercrust than that

[SG7nil]

Uppercrust....

Is there more than one Banalmadena?

The one I was at was next to Torremolinos ( Yes I quite agree with you, I mean what's the point of being treated like a sheep, I mean I'm fed up with going abroad and being treated like a sheep, what's the point of being carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their 'Sunday Mirrors', complaining about the tea, 'Oh they don't make it properly here do they not like at home' stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg and sitting in cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh cos they 'overdid it on the first day'!

And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes and their Watney's Red Barrel and their swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in to the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some big fat bloated tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.

And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with diarrhoea and flabby white legs and hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel, and then, once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman ruins where you can buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel, and one night they take you to a local restaurant with local colour and colouring and they show you there and you sit next to a party of people from Rhyl who keeps singing 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'Oh! It's so greasy isn't it?' and then you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's 'Daily Express' and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres.

And sending tinted postcards of places they don't know they haven't even visited, 'to all at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an "X". Wish you were here.'

'Food very greasy but we have managed to find this marvellous little place hidden away in the back streets.'

'Where you can even get Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion crisps and the accordionist plays "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner"' and spending four days on the tarmac at Luton airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dried Watney's sandwhiches....

...and there's nowhere to sleep and the kids are vomitting and throwing up on the plastic flowers and they keep telling you it'll only be another hour although your plane is still in Iceland waiting to take some Swedes to Yugoslavia before it can pick you up on the tarmac at 3 a.m. in the bloody morning and you sit on the tarmac till six because of 'unforeseen difficulties'. i.e. the permanent strike of Air Traffic Control in Paris, and nobody can go to the lavatory until you take off at eight, and when you get to Malaga airport everybody's swallowing Enterovioform tablets and queuing for the toilets and when you finally get to the hotel, there's no water in the taps, there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the bog and there's a bleeding lizard in the bidet, and half the rooms are double-booked and you can't sleep anyway...
.)....

And.... It was hard to move around the place for timeshare touts...

If you've got kids, try Arroyo where Tivoli Gardens is (it's ok for a night out - or it certainly was a few years ago).

[Dub]

Originally Posted by BionicRab

Haven't been before but we're in an apartment self catering so i'll be making my own style of spanish eggs and bacon paella stylee



Thinks its a bit more uppercrust than that

You've got a shockeroonie coming then rab if you think benalmadina is upper crust mate. Its a fekking shithole basically. Enjoy yer break though dude.

Originally Posted by SG7nil

Uppercrust....


If you've got kids, try Arroyo where Tivoli Gardens is (it's ok for a night out - or it certainly was a few years ago).

I was going to praise the verbose nature of your post SG and then my mind wandered back to monty python.

[BionicRab]

Originally Posted by Dub

You've got a shockeroonie coming then rab if you think benalmadina is upper crust mate. Its a fekking shithole basically. Enjoy yer break though dude.
.

Erm thanks

[SG7nil]

Rab, I'm sure you'll have a great time.

It's not as bad as some people make out and to be fair it's 100 times better than Torremolinos (although the borderline between the two is a bit hazy)... like Portobello and Joppa I suppose (but with sunshine).

I had a ring stolen while I was there a few years ago (almost certainly by the maid that cleaned my room) and spent a whole day in the Torremolinos police station filling out forms. Nothing was ever proven so it was a waste of a day of my holiday.

People die regularly crossing the road in front of the beach (a father and son died the day we arrived... had just went for a walk while the mother unpacked in their room.. not a good start to your holiday).

There was a lot of building work going on while we were there and literally there were timeshare touts on every corner.. It got so bad that I bought one of those t-shirts that goes on about not wanting to go to see timeshares and telling them to F**k off... they used it as a challenge and as an opening gambit... was VERY close to decking a couple of them cos they were so in yer face!

I believe that situation is much better now though.

Seriously, have a great time and dont overindulge on the San Miguels!

[Dub]

Originally Posted by BionicRab

Erm thanks

Sorry Rab I wasnt trying to dampen your enthusiasm dude. I'm sure you will have a good time regardless of what I think of the place. Looking forward to your report already

[southfieldhibby]

Originally Posted by Dub

You've got a shockeroonie coming then rab if you think benalmadina is upper crust mate. Its a fekking shithole basically. Enjoy yer break though dude.

want a job Iain?

you'd have the holidays rolling out the door with that sales patter

Originally Posted by BionicRab

Erm thanks

Rab, for a wee treat, get the bus down to Marbella, go to the old town and find a wee munchery called the orange tree (just off orange sq.)

It's tidy.

[hibb1]

Bar None Main St, (Opposite Riviera Hotel), Benalmadena, Spain its owned by Fletchers uncle only downside its a Rankers pub so they will be showing that if its on at same time..
We were at Puerta Marina in Benalmádena last year and it was bootiful so i suppose it depends where you go

[Dub]

Originally Posted by southfieldhibby

want a job Iain?

you'd have the holidays rolling out the door with that sales patter

If I was trying to sell the place I would have left the sweary word out. Oh no wait, then I would have described it as "a basically"

When we getting another game of gowf young fellow me lad.

[OxgangsHibby]

Mr Pickwicks bar just down the hill from the Bali hotel, they have Setanta games on in there mate. :YAYYY:

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