Gibraltar away General Thread

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echo what people say about Gibraltar....soulless kip.couldnt even get a kebab in the place.everwhere shut early doors and locals that are absolute w**kers(must be the inbreeding that goes on there).they seem to think there was thousands of Irish heading over for the game...one local told me you won't be able to get hear the square with the amount of people in the fan zone😳😳😳😳😳

JUICEBOMB wrote: echo what people say about Gibraltar....soulless kip.couldnt even get a kebab in the place.everwhere shut early doors and locals that are absolute w**kers(must be the inbreeding that goes on there).they seem to think there was thousands of Irish heading over for the game...one local told me you won't be able to get hear the square with the amount of people in the fan zone😳😳😳😳😳

My final twopence on the trip stayed in the ohtel campo in la Linea which was fine, bar service on the Friday night in the ivy was terrible and unorganised I thought and Ó Reillys not much better, headed to some nightclub then but have little recollection of that. Matchday we asked a taxi driver to take us to the cable car station but he told us it was closed because of the winds, so then we asked him to drive us up and said he couldn't we found out later the cable cars were not closed (t**ser) . We had a few decent steaks in O'Reillys lunchtime on Saturday, again food was fine but service was terrible. Few pints either side of the game in hendricks and tbf the staff there seemed to be more organised. Yeah the people in Gibraltar seemed to lack identity mainly due to the place full of English ex pats. 

pre Madonna wrote: Drumcondra 69er wrote: newrynyuk wrote: JUICEBOMB wrote: echo what people say about Gibraltar....soulless kip.couldnt even get a kebab in the place.everwhere shut early doors and locals that are absolute w**kers(must be the inbreeding that goes on there).they seem to think there was thousands of Irish heading over for the game...one local told me you won't be able to get hear the square with the amount of people in the fan zone😳😳😳😳😳   At least you met some locals, pretty much everyone I met in Gibraltar was Spanish.   Yes Gibraltar was a disappointment alright.  There was no local beer or food that was Gibraltarian.  Usually on Ireland trips I try to bring back a bottle of local wine for my sister and some local chocolate for work.  I think this was the first trip ever that I wasn't able to find either.    Gibraltar tries so hard to be British that they have no identity or culture of its own.   Kind of make you wonder why they bother having their own national team.     I actually talked to a good few locals and they were sound and very independently minded. Two groups I spoke to hadn't much time for the Brits but had far less for Spain. They appreciated that the Brits had their backs and knew that Spain would roll them over without the Brits holding firm on it. Said independence was the dream but that wasn't in any way feasible. Have to understand that they spent 50 years living as a democracy in the shadow of a dictatorship when Franco ran things as well which is where attitudes became so entrenched in my opinion. There were blockades, power cuts etc on numerous occasions orchestrated by Spain to make life hard on them. Good few of the people I spoke to had a Spanish parent yet still hated the Spanish. I thought it was a weird place but was interesting to visit. Wouldn't be rushing back all the same. Was glad I stayed there instead of over the border.  That's what I took from my few visits there too. As a small outpost that was cut off from the world for years, t isi undoubtedly unique. I didn't like it, but was fascinated by the contradictions there all the same. A group of local lads tried to start a fight with me there because they thought I was in the British forces, yet they want to stay British! The major reason for the latter is financial, although there are many others! Also,  if you ask a lot of the Andalusians over the border for an honest answer, they want it to stay British too. Brexit could be an absolute nightmare for all of them. It is the sort of place that will never really be understood as they don't really understand themselves. Did anyone come across the bizarre bilingual conversations that are a bizarre hybrid of English, Spanish and their own Llanito (which is an even more bizarre mix of the two) thrown in? To think, we get confused if some lad has an English father and Irish mother!

Anyone know if they accept the Gib money on the mainland ?, shed load of gib coins here

TBWRA wrote: Anyone know if they accept the Gib money on the mainland ?, shed load of gib coins here

TBWRA wrote: Anyone know if they accept the Gib money on the mainland ?, shed load of gib coins here

Charlton's Child wrote: TBWRA wrote: Anyone know if they accept the Gib money on the mainland ?, shed load of gib coins here Yea I got rid of most of mine in London in the way back