What do you think when the English come to Spain on hols?

Just to clarify, that this is not a dig at the English, it's more a "Do you feel home sick when you see them?" or Not ;)

By English, do you mean British? The Spanish let the rest of us in, too. As a non-dentist, I like your site.

When I lived in Spain; when I was out on the lash, I loved running into the Brits. Good fun normally the lot of them. When I was hungover, I wanted to be as far away from them as humanly possible.

Sorry Martcross - I mean't British

In Spain, do teenagers run amok smashing up people, places and getting ratted? Or is it just the UK?

I ask, because I often wonder if it is just not reported in the UK press or ?

English Irish Germanys what every .depends on what age group there are and if there familys are singles . Its a 7 - 14 days off sun drink and to sleep it off ,
But not all do this .... i take my holidays in spain and in UK , Ireland , but fine it more expence to buy drink there so i drink less ( will i am a cheap date 5 drinks and i gone ) but in spain i will drink more when with freinds but it take over the hole night not like at home when it 2 am the pubs club about to closed and have have 3 r 4 drinks lined up front off you

Yes in some place in spain its unreal with the drinking going on but cheap then home and it a holiday so who know you there ....

> Sorry Martcross - I mean't British

In Spain, do teenagers run amok smashing up people, places and getting ratted? Or is it just the UK?

I ask, because I often wonder if it is just not reported in the UK press or ?


In recent years there's been a huge increase in a phenomenon called the "macrobotellon" where thousands of kids get together to drink in the streets and plazas in big cities. It mostly happens at the end of exams and on bank holidays, and typically involves mixing cheap red wine or spirits with cola. They get completely plastered and end up pissing and vomiting in the streets, as you'd expect, but there doesn't seem to be nearly as much violence or vandalism as you'd get in the UK. In most cities the authorities are really good at cleaning up the mess, too. Another thing about kids in Spain is that they use a lot of drugs. I don't know what the statistics are but coke is pretty widespread. Certainly, although young people in Spain seem to be more civilised than their British counterparts, the idea that they're all perfect little citizens is a myth.

think it a better way off Life here in spain and kids more in sports and have lot more to do here then uk Kids and taken in the weather in the Uk is big factor aswell
watching kids here in Elche and Santa pola there more in to have good fun but not killing them self .... are binge drinking gose on every why now

jurdy

> Sorry Martcross - I mean't British

In Spain, do teenagers run amok smashing up people, places and getting ratted? Or is it just the UK?

I ask, because I often wonder if it is just not reported in the UK press or ?




Answer: No, the Spanish teenagers don't go on drunken rampages, at least never ever in my experience, and I have lived here for over 5 years now and travelled extensively all over the country.
They get drunk, they dance, they embrace, they play music (themselves, on instruments thet have learned to play), they kiss and hug. They offer uou their wine and food.
They don't get aggressive at all.

Neither do the Dutch, or the Germans or any other non-Spanish nationality that I can think of.

With just one consistent exception I'm afraid and ashamed to say: The British.
Note, not those from Ireland even, just the English, the Scots, and to perhaps a slightly lesser degree the Welsh.





I have noticed the same appalling behaviour traits in Greece, France, Belgium, Thailand....in fact everywhere I've travelled and stayed around the globe.
A general small-minded arrogance, an aggression, an intolerance of any other nationality or language; a refusal to respect local culture and customs.

My passport says UK citizen (not my chosen country, simply a fact of the great lottery of geographic birth location), but my home and my world and my outlook are not British any longer......for whcih frankly I am grateful.
I consider myself as adopted Spanish now, and I try to behave in that way wherever and whenever I can.

What do I think? More often than not I'll walk the other way, as I their behaviour embaressing. Sadly people judge countries by what they see their representatives doing, and tar everyone with the same brush. We mix with a wealth of nationalities here on the Costa Blanca, but the holiday makers that come over from Britain (not just the English) have to be some of the worst.
Kids screaming everywhere, with their parents screaming after them, young teenagers drunk and rowdy in the street...I walk the other way.