Cancelled my 2 weeks in Tenerife

[Bav]

Told you it was UK click bait BS.

The UK media should be ashamed of itself.

This is effecting small business here and in Spain, all because the UK media want to earn click cash.


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It seems the spin given in the UK media is well wide of the mark, almost certainly motivated by the cynical pursuit of clicks. Equally wide of the mark is the sentiment expressed by some in this thread that the protests were "a reaction to pissed-up Brits misbehaving", though I'm not quite so sure what the motivation for these comments was!

 

[Bav]

I worked with a geordie for about 8 years and loved dishing out the "your a soft southern fairy" but hated the Northern monkey come back

It's always a concern being considered a monkey when you live so close to Hartlepool!

 

[Trouts]

Told you it was UK click bait BS.

The UK media should be ashamed of itself.

This is effecting small business here and in Spain, all because the UK media want to earn click cash.


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More quality reportage from The Sun. They should be ashamed of themselves.

UK tourists in France warned after restaurants refuse service 'for being English' — Birmingham Live

A tour guide has spoken out after a group of Brits was refused service at a restaurant nearby to Normandy, where the famous D-Day landings took place.

apple.news

well i did say...

#noonelikesasmartarse!

 

[Sasquatch]

Not wanting tourists happens everywhere locals moan about them tourist trade want them Cornwall, North Wales, Scotland NC500 not just Tenerife

I'm Kernowen, born and bred. I can trace my Breton-Celt ancestry back to the 1500's. My Dad even speaks the language, as did my Grandad before him. I'm a big disappointment for not speaking it myself, although bizarrely I speak fairly decent German (two tours there BITD.)

Anyway, I live elsewhere now (me being daft went and married a Coventry lass) but I always chuckle to myself when "locals" in Cornwall moan about tourists when those making the most noise are usually incomers themselves.

The ones making the real racket usually come in from elsewhere, buy houses, often second homes, pricing the real locals out of the market, and then complain because they dont have the roads to themselves in August or its difficult to find a parking. They're the real moaners - if they cleared off the place wouldnt be half so rammed. The sensational media stories tend to overlook that bit.

Provided people behave and respect the area the genuine locals really don't mind the tourists ha.f as much as they do the incomers. The income the tourists bring is very valuable to us. In any case, there are no shortage of native Kernowen who behave like a-holes, so they don't really complain when others do the same.

 

[Sackmycook]

I remember going on a week's break to Penzance with my fiancé back in the late '80's. Went into a pub overlooking St Michaels Mount for a drink and bite to eat at lunchtime. Pub was empty bar 3 blokes at the bar. One of them clocked my 'english' accent.
Sat down away from them, this bore then proceeded to boom out across the pub how he was 'going to London with the Cornwall rugby team to beat the english at Twickenham.' I took this as an attempt to intimidate me and Julie. Well it worked. We left our drinks, walked out and vowed to never to return to Cornwall. Never have, never will.
Devon is just a fantastic english county

 

[Sasquatch]

I remember going on a week's break to Penzance with my fiancé back in the late '80's. Went into a pub overlooking St Michaels Mount for a drink and bite to eat at lunchtime. Pub was empty bar 3 blokes at the bar. One of them clocked my 'english' accent.
Sat down away from them, this bore then proceeded to boom out across the pub how he was 'going to London with the Cornwall rugby team to beat the english at Twickenham.' I took this as an attempt to intimidate me and Julie. Well it worked. We left our drinks, walked out and vowed to never to return to Cornwall. Never have, never will.
Devon is just a fantastic english county

Sorry about that. If I'd known it was you I'd have wound my neck in!

In all seriousness, I've had exactly the same in North Wales, despite being a fellow Celt. Ask enough people and you'll find that every county or region in the UK has such bell ends. The problem with Cornwall is that as well as our own were importing bell ends from elsewhere.

And being from the adjacent county, I know exactly what the Devon locals would have been calling you behind your back!

 

[Sackmycook]

I guess the Devonians do it behind your back, whereas in Cornwall, they're in your face.....!

 

[Sasquatch]

You don't want to know what they were putting in your lunch behind your back!

 

[Stay Frosty]

If it helps the Mrs is pretty well over Cornwall after staying at Tintagel this May, the weather this year and I know it wasn't great anywhere in the UK, clinched what is generally a pretty long drive from Northampton to a fairly bleak part of the UK with a few pretty little coastal towns and 5hitholes like St Ives full of imported DFLs in Chelsea tractors and poor worn out Penzance or Newquay.
Padstein, well you can stick that right up along with Rock it's A lister dumping ground opposite, parts of Cornhole are a victim of the Sunday supplement ethos of if you like it go and buy a chunk and pretend you live there.
The incumbent moan about how their kids can't afford to live there while flogging Grandads Mousehole fishing cottage when in reality outside of tourism there isn't anything income wise for young workers there anyway.
I know there's Fowey, The Minack Theatre, The Eden Project, Goonhilly Down (I'm a radio anorak) so we're not boycotting Cornwall just not in love with the place anymore and Devon is just that bit greener and less prickly.

 

[Bav]

C'mon @Stay Frosty, stop sugar-coating it and tell us what you really think.

 

[Sasquatch]

If it helps the Mrs is pretty well over Cornwall after staying at Tintagel this May, the weather this year and I know it wasn't great anywhere in the UK, clinched what is generally a pretty long drive from Northampton to a fairly bleak part of the UK with a few pretty little coastal towns and 5hitholes like St Ives full of imported DFLs in Chelsea tractors and poor worn out Penzance or Newquay.
Padstein, well you can stick that right up along with Rock it's A lister dumping ground opposite, parts of Cornhole are a victim of the Sunday supplement ethos of if you like it go and buy a chunk and pretend you live there.
The incumbent moan about how their kids can't afford to live there while flogging Grandads Mousehole fishing cottage when in reality outside of tourism there isn't anything income wise for young workers there anyway.
I know there's Fowey, The Minack Theatre, The Eden Project, Goonhilly Down (I'm a radio anorak) so we're not boycotting Cornwall just not in love with the place anymore and Devon is just that bit greener and less prickly.

Apart from the place names and mentions of tourism you could be describing Nothampton...which curiously enough is where I currently live until Mrs B joins me in retirement.

 

[Stay Frosty]

Ooohsheet!
Didn't see that one coming, might have to relocate to our recently acquired fisherman's cottage in Mousehole, a snip at £827,000, two beds and a parking space too...
Northampton must be one of Britain's best kept secrets, conveniently located near to lots of much nicer places but retaining the cultural vacuum and anonymity so beloved of it's inmates, got the current Gallagher Premiership Rugby team though so some civic pride.

 

[Sackmycook]

Are you mistaking Northampton for Basingrad?

 

[Sasquatch]

Bless you, I think I may have erroneously given the 180° impression of Nothampton!

Put it this way - I've a place in South Uist and we can't wait to flee there the second Mrs B gets some leave. The mere fact that Alan Carr likes the place told us all we needed to know, but Mrs B's job came with too tempting a salary so we have to rough it until October next year.

It's not all bad. There are some lovely Grade II listed crackheads and a few wonderful abandoned sofas of outstanding natural beauty, and the M1 means a speedy getaway is easy to be had.

 

[Sackmycook]

Any front garden listed Cortina's

 

[Sasquatch]

Any front garden listed Cortina's

It's not that classy. That said, we're in an area laughingly called Collingtree "village" and in the next road is a wonderful Grade 1 listed Dolomite Sprint that's been there in someones front garden since 1980. I've heard that Chris Packham sneaks up with his binoculars to catch a glimpse.


In all seriousness, it's OK, good and bad, not my first choice but similarly not the worst place to end up, but that's how life worked out. I think the problem is that being from the South West and then having spent some childhood in the Western Isles (Dad was a GP, two or three times the salary to be made up there on a fixed term contract as no one wants to go) I feel zero attachment to it. It just leaves me a bit cold,

 

[Stay Frosty]

We all feel that we belong somewhere and that it's our town/county/country right up to the point we travel and meet other people.
Sometimes our choice is affirmed by that feeling of belonging after travelling and those times you realise that you're a better fit in that somewhere else.
With Northampton it's traditionally been a bit of a clearing house for London's huddled masses so doesn't retain as much of it's historical market town identity as it could have, factor in various town councils destroying more historic town centre buildings in the 60s and 70s than the Luftwaffe could have dreamed of and you have a small town with a large population biding their time until something better comes along.
Collingtree is very convenient for the M1 at 150m distant and a classic example of corporate ruination of an area with it's soon to be Amazon wish fulfillment centre just over the road at the new rail centre, not a problem when you're passing through though.
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[Lubrown]

We all feel that we belong somewhere and that it's our town/county/country right up to the point we travel and meet other people.

I feel I belong in France.
They may moan as much as the English but A) I can’t understand them so it doesn’t affect me and B) they seem to have a better way of life.
I don’t get angry by tourists coming to the UK - I just don’t get why they would.

 

[Salty Spuds]

I feel I belong in France.
They may moan as much as the English but A) I can’t understand them so it doesn’t affect me and B) they seem to have a better way of life.
I don’t get angry by tourists coming to the UK - I just don’t get why they would.

There’s a huge difference between living in a country & visiting it. We have French friends, consequently we spend a lot of time in France and they spend time here. We think France is better in some respects than the UK, & they vice-versa. The problem with being a visitor, is you tend to pick & choose the best bits, until you’re a resident & have to work with the systems & bureaucracy, you don’t really get the whole picture. You visit France & see the well kept towns & villages and good public services, but you don’t see the high tax rates, VAT on food & kids clothes, sky high food prices. The French come here & love the liberty that we have to walk the countryside, the lack of “Controle”in all aspects of life (France can feel like a police state on occasions) the toll free motorways, the vast choice of wine in our supermarkets & restaurants etc etc.
The grass is always greener on the other side.

 

[Madpasty]

Ooohsheet!
Didn't see that one coming, might have to relocate to our recently acquired fisherman's cottage in Mousehole, a snip at £827,000, two beds and a parking space too...
Northampton must be one of Britain's best kept secrets, conveniently located near to lots of much nicer places but retaining the cultural vacuum and anonymity so beloved of it's inmates, got the current Gallagher Premiership Rugby team though so some civic pride.

Im Cornish and you're a liar !!!




thers no such thing as a parking space in Mousehole