Tag Archive | spain
Presents From Spain
She always was a sucker for the sort of bargain that wasn’t a bargain really, for the sort of junk that no-one else bought, the Betta-Ware man was a constant at our doorstep with his things for fishing stuff out of drains and plastic gadgets with no purpose whatsoever, my mother would buy junk off [...]
Tie A Jello Ribbo
Our Ned made a wonderful discovery in his loft the other day and I have ordered him to preserve the evidence until I can get it down in digital format and publish around these parts. Its the original Benidorm Live tape of Pepe Hernandez. If you are now scratching your heads and mumbling “Who?” then [...]
…and in doing so he discovered Benidorm
“I must warn you” I said to the young woman who, two years later would become my wife in a deal that I hadn’t realised would forever leave me impoverished, “my father likes to sing in bars”. It was I admit something of an understatement, the truth was that my father would not go into [...]
The Basque region of Spain
As hinted previously this largely unknown area of Northern Spain is stunningly gorgeous, being Alpine in appearance it would surely be a huge, even massive, tourist attraction if the people who live there weren’t the most miserable twats on gods earth, with big chips on their shoulders too. The ongoing terrorist situation in the region [...]
Driving in Madrid (III)
We were heading north out of Madrid on the motorway to Burgos and thence on into the Basque region, an area of Northern Spain which is perhaps the most beautiful and least seen region, mainly because the Basque people are the most miserable, ignorant twats that I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet and the [...]
Driving in Madrid (II)
So we packed the car the following morning and left the old folks Spanish paradise by the sea that is the town of Benidorm and headed off down the motorway to Alicante, me driving, our dad sat dozing in the passenger seat and his flatmate Brian sat in the back with his trusty map of [...]
Driving in Madrid
Anyone else ever done it ? Driven a car through, around and in the centre of Madrid ? No ? Its madness.
