This morning I’ve received another story from Ray Morris who lives in Australia, he used to work in Lloret and Tossa de Mar back in the 60s! This story tells about is from his time in Tossa....Many thanks to Ray!
In 1962 whilst working as a barman in the beach-front bar named “Chez Biel” at Tossa de Mar I was known to the locals as “el Australiano”. That year the only other foreigners working in Tossa were the Englishmen Tony Batey and Eric Richards and the American Chuck ….who jointly ran the Club Internacional inside the fortification walls. The white two-storey building that was “Chez Biel” still stands on the corner of Calle Mar and the beachfront building with its distinctive rounded windows on the upper floor remains today but its side entrance and the entrance to the cellar are now covered by a postcard stall named Carte d'or opposite a restaurant named Es Congre.
San Miguel was the most popular beer at the time and Estrella Dorada and Moritz were available. One afternoon a drink waiter took several bottles of San Miguel out to customers on the terrace, preparing to open and pour the beer but just in time he noticed that there was a dead lizard in one of the San Miguel bottles and he concealed this from the customers. The staff marvelled at the large lizard in the bottle with its mouth open revealing its teeth. The following morning when the San Miguel delivery man came you never saw a beer bottle disappear so fast. I switched to drinking Estrella Dorada for a week or two before returning to San Miguel.
