Carvoeiro

[Grinch]

What a dump! Just come back from a week there and its rubbbish! If you want English bars, English food, English people, its the place for you. If not, steer well clear! Its crap! I won't be back!

[Grinch]

Just been reading the thread on Sully's, I rest my case. Drugs, get a life!

[e-richard]

Interesting observation Grinch, and you're allowed your own opinion.

Yes, there are English bars, English food, and lots of English people cos thats what many tourists want, but if perhaps you'd been adventurous enough and sought the other 7/8ths of Carvoeiro you may have seen a different place.

[waboab]

Grinch, I'm with you on that score.
I hate going on holiday only to find a whole sh** load of English bars serving English Food with an English Culture.
Maybe that is why I have been visiting CVO for the last several years.

I don't know where they locked you up when you were out there, but it is a shame they did.

With regard Sulley's, fights and drugs.............................
Have you ever had a look at 95% of the world's towns and cities?
Where alcohol and testosterone is involved, you will also get that.

That being said, I'm sorry you found the CVO experience an unpleasant one and it obviously asn't for you, but like they say "If we were all the same then there would be no individuality"

[Bessie]

Is this a hoax?

The Grinch is he not the chap who also hates Christmas?

[roy4eyes]

Hello Grinch

Where did you go to get all this English food, English beer etc.?

I have lived here for 8 years and all I can find is meat or fish grilled Portuguese style, or sometimes a funny local thing called bacalau (why do they dehydrate a good fish when we have modern refrigeration?) and all the beer is icy cold and fizzy - not at all like the warm flat English stuff.

Please, please Grinch tell me where I can find my favourite English products

P.S. How much where they charging for smack - they only offered me viagra at well over the odds price !!

[bruce]

I feel left out got offered nothing!
You wont be going back then Grinch

[maddi]

not at all like the warm flat English stuff.

I have to say this is one comment that always gets me irritated - why do some people always make a comparison between a super chilled lager from an extra cold pump and a real ale.

Britain is full of pubs selling super chilled lagers and most young people I know drink bottled lagers like Brahma and Corona with wedges of lime, Carling do a draught and of course as you know there are now extra cold versions of things Boddingtons and Guiness.

For the foreign visitor to the UK it is actually harder for them to find a good real ale pub or cider bar and drink this "warm flat stuff" endlessly referred to by ex-pats the world over.

Rant over!!!

[maddi]

What a dump! Just come back from a week there and its rubbbish! If you want English bars, English food, English people, its the place for you. If not, steer well clear! Its crap! I won't be back!

Hi Grinch

Sorry you had such an awful time, I know how it feels to save up and spend your well earned money on something that disappoints you, I think most of us have had that experience in our lives.

I think that most of us Carvoeiro fans will accept that there probably are too many interchangeable bars and restaurants with look-a-like menus - something we have been discussing on here earlier this week - on the other hand though it certainly isn't Palma Nova Majorca, Coral Bay Cyprus, Sidari Corfu - there are no pubs called the British Bulldog, the Queen Vic or Rover's Return - and whilst the cuisine might be samey it is steak, cataplana, garlic mushrooms, sardines rather than wall-to-wall roast dinners and full english breakfasts.

It would be really useful if you could provide some specific criticism rather than us trying to decipher what you mean by emotive words such as "dump" - to me that word means - filthy dirty, rubbish everywhere, streets and buildings in states of poor repair, no character, packed with tower blocks and as that isn't Carvoeiro it would be interesting to learn what you mean by the word.

Maddi

[Ellie]

What a dump! Just come back from a week there and its rubbbish! If you want English bars, English food, English people, its the place for you. If not, steer well clear! Its crap! I won't be back!

This is a windup yeah?

Well apart from living there and visiting virtually on a yearly basis I can honestly say I never eat English food, and from the restaurants & pastelarias I go to they only serve food Portuguese-style? Which I prefer..thats one of the main reasons I go there!

No hang on, I tell a lie. I used to visit Annie's 'Fish & Chix' shop now & then for a lovely fish supper or lunch(its now The Irish Times)

Grinch darling, you should have been more adventurous and experimented....
Im actually sitting here trying to think of all these English food places..and can't think of one

[ROTCIV]

i bet this is eco/spider winding everyone up.

[pato]

Well Grinch, at least you'll deflect some of the flack from me, they'll be PMing all over the place trying to wipe you out, as Jones'y says, "They don't like it up em" Incidentally I don't agree with your post, I love it in Cvo, Why don't you try Benidorm if you want class

[Ma-Ja's]

[quote="Ellie] Im actually sitting here trying to think of all these English food places..and can't think of one [/quote]

And there was us thinking we were the only English restaurant in town serving traditional English fare along with international dishes

We would also like to know where our competition is

And as for you Roy4eyes - can you not remember having dinner with us when Carol was away

[Ellie]

Im sorry, had a blonde moment then, Ma -Ja's..
of course I had a lovely fish chips and peas at your place one evening..very nice it was too

[roy4eyes]

Maddi - I was a member of CAMRA in England and it is a fact that you cannot get real ale here - I was not being facetious.

MaJa - I can only remember eating your empadao de frango e cogulemos, not real English food