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  2. I’m vacationing in Spain in July. Madrid/Pamplona/Barcelona/Mallorca. Hoping to be a gracious guest over the 2+ weeks we are there.

  3. Hah.
    There were 2 Irish pubs across the street from each other here in Waikiki.
    1 changed to a BoomBoom club last year, it is now shut down.
    Should have stayed as it was. Even a dive bar is better than BoomBoom.

    1. Drive down King St in Kitchener-Waterloo….Delhi doesn’t have this many Indian food places!!!

  5. If you’re Spanish and don’t like tourists, stop opening Irish Pubs. Just a thought.

    1. I guess the £ spends better than the €. Wait. only N.Ireland is on the £ … all those Catholic shits to the South are on the €. So the real question is which bar is which?

      1. You damn Americans and your currency jokes. Try spending a Canadian dollar 😉

        But seriously if I wanted to make some money selling beer, I would try attracting the Irish. They’ll drink beer even if it’s green.

        1. What a tired old stereotype! Wait … except for that trip I took for a wedding in Ennis, IR … and the locals drank me under the table … and that was just the women.

        2. Cdn $ haha. The trinket seller in Essaouira was mezmorized by a fresh plastic fiver over a €5.

      2. The big factor isn’t the exchange rate, it’s the super low cost of booze compared to prices in the UK, Ireland and most other European countries.

        For example, you can get a beer in a neighborhood Spanish bar for around €2 and in a grocery store/supermarket for around €0.60. That’s the low range.

        Prices are much higher in heavy tourist areas but still cheaper than in other Euro countries.

    2. RE: “. . . stop opening Irish Pubs.”

      Then again, if you want to make money . . . Just say’n.

    3. What’s the alternative though?

      Trendy club? $1000 bottle service, drugs, sex trafficking, greasy middle easterners, etc?

      Another pub sounds good.

  6. Hmmm… I note that they are all pretty much within crawling distance of each other.

  7. If any of you ever make it to Donostia (San Sebastien) Spain, check out the Museum of Whisky. Every great scotch known to Scotland. An interesting display of Royal commemorative bottles going back to George VI’s coronation at least, maybe even Victoria. For sure Elizabeth’s birth and coronation. Dirt cheap for the best compared to cheap stuff in Canada. When I went you could also still get a Monte Cristo or Cohiba cigar to enjoy for the equivalent of $5.

    1. RE: ” . . . check out the Museum of Whisky.”

      What are the rules regarding how long you can leave the wife in the car? I mean cracking the windows, water and everything else I’d forget.

      Do the rules still apply to someone even half Irish?

      Full disclosure: the Mrs. doesn’t read this site.

  8. Go to Jerez and see where sherry is made.
    Spain is interesting. My family company had 600 employees there.
    Too bad it’s Socialist and becoming more Muslims. Go to Marbella and see for yourself.

  9. RE: : “This might give you a sense of why so many Spaniards are sick of tourists!”

    There seems to be some doubt of why the Irish are held in such high regard wherever they’ve infested.
    It wasn’t that long ago that signs stating, ‘Irish Need Not Apply’, were apart of Toronto life.
    Full disclosure: me Ma is from Belfast.

    1. I knew a fellow in Toronto some years back who had a pub there but had started his career running the only Mexican restaurant in Luxembourg. Not bad for a lad from Edinburgh.

  11. Back in the late 90’s / early 00’s, my brother and sister in law had an apartment in Playa Flamenca, on the Costa Blanca. When the Irish joined the Euro lots of Euro’s went to Ireland and as a result, lots of Irish went to Spain and bought property there, and so the Irish pubs and restaurants opened up. The area was known as ‘The Emerald Isle’.

  12. Alvor PT had five pubs on one short block.
    Venice has at least one.
    Coulda bin the whiskey
    Mighta bin the gin
    2 or 3 six paks…

  13. Long time lurker here, spaniard who lived in Canada

    The problem with tourism in Spain is not Irish bars. It’s:

    1) giant cruise ships parking several at a time in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Málaga, and offloading tens of thousands of frantic tourists with an eight hour window

    2) air b&b rentals being way more profitable (and squatter safe, thank you Podemos and Sumar pseudocommunist parties) than long term rentals, hence there are few long term rentals and many apartments in a block turning to short term rentals, leading to very high rent prices and locals (people who have lived in that region since Roman times or earlier, in a given neighbourhood since centuries ago) being displaced from their towns and neighbourhoods

    3) turismo de borrachera, i.e. drinking tourism. A lot of British, Germans, Dutch and others on a shoestring budget, barely spending any money outside a foreign owned hotel and bar, creating drunk chaos when on the streets

    I do not think anybody has a problem with responsible tourists, even those who had a couple too many cañas, or with Irish bars

    I do not know where the limit for tourism is, but when in a town or neighbourhood more than 50% of the housing and businesses is owned by foreigners who rent to foreigners who go to foreign owned bars and leave little money in the local economy whilst crowding everywhere and driving up rent and hence driving a majority of locals away, you probably have gone over the limit. And I’m not a fan of the tourists go home leftists harrassing bona fide tourists and demonstrating with rainbow flags and other cause of the day flags, but something needs to change

    But, I’m more concerned about the flooding of towns by unemployed Magreb people (Morocco, Algeria) found in every city centre, every year in larger numbers. Their numbers have substantially increased since covid

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