Many thanks to Jessica for sending me her late fathers photos which she has only just come across. His name was Fred Hall but was sometimes known as Louis, Does anyone remember him…see the first photo.
The photos are taken in the Duke Of York (1971) so it’s possible that he was working there at that time.
Many thanks to William for posting this bullfight poster on the Facebook page, it dates back to 1976.
Williams details about the poster….A few months ago, my Mother gave me a couple of boxes with pictures from our times in Europe. When I first saw this one, I thought it was from our time at Zaragoza in the early 60's but upon closer inspection I found it to have been from Lloret De Mar. We were there the last two weeks in July of 1976.
Many thanks to Ray Morris for another one of his memorable stories from the days he worked in Lloret and Tossa de Mar. Ray is now living in Australia but it seems that his days of working in Spain are never far from his mind! ……..
I spent several hours watching footage of Tossa and Lloret on You Tube and it left me feeling like I had actually travelled there. In the footage of Lloret it looked like they had demolished most of the buildings and built a new town on the site. I got a kick out of seeing the old town hall building where I spent two hours in the jail looking out the window at people frolicing on the beach. Otherwise it was a large bustling city that I had never seen before.
Thanks to Hammy for letting me publish his photos which he came across while sorting through his brother Ian’s apartment. For those of you that haven’t heard Ian has sadly died recently after suffering an illness for a few years…RIP Ian
Many thanks to Richie for sending this great selection of photos featuring the Sportsman back in 1988/89.
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.
