A bit council (Vol 3)

A bit council (Vol 3)

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Pieman68

4,264 posts

235 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Jimmy Recard said:
The thing about Benidorm is that the town itself sucks, but the hills above it and down the coast out of town are just lovely.

I wouldn’t want to spend time in Benidorm itself, but I’d happily visit the area again
We've just got back from a week there - cheap family holiday with the kids

We were in the old town, right on the front overlooking Poniente Beach and our hotel had very few Brits and a large number of locals and was all the better for it

All inclusive, lots of fresh seafood dishes and people drinking alcohol to reasonable limits. Decent behaviour around the pool with regards to sunbeds and child noise/behaviour. We had a lovely week - I believe that the hotel is going adult only in 2019

We visited the new town one evening to see what it was like - we didn't go again!

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

124 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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so we're demolishing some flats. the tenants naturally and fairly now get an alternative home of their choice.

It's fascinating looking at the data of how many want a larger home "because they're hoping to win/get/back/have a court case" where they may get custody back of their children.

A sad indication of society !

Deesee

8,469 posts

84 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Gad-Westy said:
Ascayman said:
Why cant the spanish go somewhere else for their holidays laugh
It maybe would be more pertinent to ask, "Why would the Spanish not want to go somewhere else for their holidays?"
Perhaps it was a hotel for Spanish council.

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

254 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Deesee said:
Gad-Westy said:
Ascayman said:
Why cant the spanish go somewhere else for their holidays laugh
It maybe would be more pertinent to ask, "Why would the Spanish not want to go somewhere else for their holidays?"
Perhaps it was a hotel for Spanish council.
El Counc

Deesee

8,469 posts

84 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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SpeckledJim said:
Deesee said:
Gad-Westy said:
Ascayman said:
Why cant the spanish go somewhere else for their holidays laugh
It maybe would be more pertinent to ask, "Why would the Spanish not want to go somewhere else for their holidays?"
Perhaps it was a hotel for Spanish council.
El Counc
She could have just waited for the siesta, she would have had the place to herself.

captain_cynic

12,087 posts

96 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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SpeckledJim said:
El Counc
Direct translation would be Consejo.

However council in this context is slang, you've got a variety of words the closest I've found is "naco" in Mexican Spanish or "cani" in Spanish Spanish, meaning a person of poor manners and poor education.

S11Steve

6,374 posts

185 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Jimmy Recard said:
Saleen836 said:
Can we have a new thread with the title...'Uber Council' ?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woma...hehe
I just came here to post that!

She wants compensation because she encountered Spanish people in Spain rofl
She lives in Blackburn, but she has an issue with foreigners? It's one of the most ethnically mixed towns in the North West!!




PositronicRay

27,062 posts

184 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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S11Steve said:
Jimmy Recard said:
Saleen836 said:
Can we have a new thread with the title...'Uber Council' ?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woma...hehe
I just came here to post that!

She wants compensation because she encountered Spanish people in Spain rofl
She lives in Blackburn, but she has an issue with foreigners? It's one of the most ethnically mixed towns in the North West!!
Not foreigners, Spanish.

Frank7

6,619 posts

88 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Digga said:
Ought to be grateful. I was under the impression the bits of Benidorm frequented by the locals are far better than those teeming with Brits.
That would be a given, just for the fact that the Brits there would be conspicuous by their absence.
I only ever went to Benidorm twice, the second time purely because my wife wouldn’t believe it could be as bad as I said it was when I was there without her.
Naturally, these things are subjective, but I found the place to be a hell hole, with a northern accent.

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

82 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Some areas of Benidorm are really pleasant.

SlimJim16v

5,693 posts

144 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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SCEtoAUX said:
Some areas of Benidorm are really pleasant.
The roads out.

kowalski655

14,660 posts

144 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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austinsmirk said:
so we're demolishing some flats. the tenants naturally and fairly now get an alternative home of their choice.

It's fascinating looking at the data of how many want a larger home "because they're hoping to win/get/back/have a court case" where they may get custody back of their children.

A sad indication of society !
Do you absolutely HAVE to get them out before demolishing the flats?smile

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

124 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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they actually get a homeloss payment.

debts to us are deducted. this means most of them don't get the full amount. they are heartbroken.


although I witnessed a couple of tenant's necking cider back at 9.00 am the other day, giddy with joy about the pending cash coming their way.

think lottery win joy, life changing money joy, birth of a child joy.

or the thought of 9.00 am more cider joy.


MWM3

1,764 posts

123 months

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

136 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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MWM3 said:
Its a bit of a crap holiday when your car breaks down.
Not sure why that's council.
But I think it's right what he says at the end.
Leaving Norfolk is not all it's cracked up to be.
It's like another more disappointing world out there.


Shuvi McTupya

24,460 posts

248 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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talksthetorque said:
Its a bit of a crap holiday when your car breaks down.
Not sure why that's council.
But I think it's right what he says at the end.
Leaving Norfolk is not all it's cracked up to be.
It's like another more disappointing world out there.
I suspect they are kind of milking it though!


They are on a Caravan holiday and had to stay in the caravan in a service station car park for one night

unhappy campers said:
“It was not a good experience. It was frightening. My daughter was panicking and upset.
They would have had better facilities at the service station than in a lot of camping grounds!

MWM3

1,764 posts

123 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Caravan

Complete over reaction- I'm sure it wasn't frightening. Frustrating, most definitley but frightening?

Refused being put up in hotel by RAC and then moan they were just left.

Going to stick to only their native county going forward after one bad experience.

Triumph Man

8,705 posts

169 months

Thursday 16th August 2018
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MWM3 said:
Caravan

Complete over reaction- I'm sure it wasn't frightening. Frustrating, most definitley but frightening?

Refused being put up in hotel by RAC and then moan they were just left.

Going to stick to only their native county going forward after one bad experience.
Maybe if he had spent money on maintaining his Transporter rather than buying those horrifically chavistic headlights he wouldn't have broken down in the first place.

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 16th August 2018
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Shuvi McTupya said:
They would have had better facilities at the service station than in a lot of camping grounds!
True. Fleet services are quite nice too (assuming they have finished the building that was going on last time I was there).

Saleen836

11,132 posts

210 months

Thursday 16th August 2018
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Triumph Man said:
Maybe if he had spent money on maintaining his Transporter rather than buying those horrifically chavistic headlights he wouldn't have broken down in the first place.
He is a mechanic, they don't look after their own vehicles wink

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