Following last night's debacle, please consider booking your holidays in Albufeira, and helping us stay in business.
Floyd's Bar is the only Charlton bar in Europe, it will not be there after next year unless we can replace the thousands England's exit will cost us in takings. Forget the place you always go for one year please - one hot sunny beach is much the same as another - and come to see us instead.
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As an aside, if i brought a football team out there, how easy / hard would it be to arrange a game against a local side of similar ability (pub standard) ?
Pitch / facilities nearby ?
AFKA, no problem oraginising a match for you, got a Dutch mate who oranises training camps for Dutch teams in the winter break, so he would have all the contacts for facilities, and a bunch of ex-pat mates have a team you could play, or I could easily find a sunday side somewhere for you.
I can understand at home pubs do noticeably better, as they get people going out to watch the game rather than staying indoors, but surely in a holiday resort the vast bulk of the people go out most nights to have a drink anyway ?
Also, people drink more when there is a match on, and football fans in general drink more than the average punter. In summer we often get the couples in where she nurses a tonic water all night, and he gets a dirty look from her when he gets up for a third pint!
It really is a massive blow for us AFKA
Lol at AFKA too, I can imagine the board being buzzing and one who did not go asking what the funk is going on aren't you all meant to be on a session?! And several embaraased looking faces popping up over screens and grudgingly shuffling back to Alragves pub to have real conversation!!
that's kind of what i had in mind when i asked about sorting out a football match. Lets have a bit of a think about it in the new year.
About a twenty quid taxi ride away, or 20 minutes in my car if I pick you up...
Sorry!
Lanzarote??? You gypsy Lockwood!!!!
Get the Fred Olsen to Fuerteventura mate and redeem yourself!!
I recommend adopting another country for the duration of the tournament - become the Croation HQ for the tournament!
The weekender sounds fun but I don't think I could stay up with all the boozers on here for very long. I was amazed that some people drink three pints!!
Maybe if there are some commonwealth war graves nearby Addickted and I could tempt the Sevenoaks addicks over.
Off to Alantic coast of France in August but hopes it works out for you.
Unfortunately Perry may well have to break out the lederhosen & schnitzels if the above figures are true.
Those sad French and Italians are too busy suffering good food and making lurve to enjoy the delights of a good pint litre !!
We are a Dutch bar for Euro 2008. Several reasons.
1) First major tournament I remember was WC 1974, and the Dutch were brilliant then, and I supported them after Scotland went out - ditto in 1978.
2) I have always liked them as a nation, and unlike most of the rest of Europe, they quite like us.
3) After the Brits the Dutch bring the biggest number of tourists here.
4) The two hotels on our doorstep have gone from having Brits to Dutch as their main guests in the past couple of years.
5) Eric, our barman is Dutch.
As for the drinking survey, that's just about beer, believe me taking all alcoholic drinks into account, the Brits and Irish outdrink everyone else by a country mile!
It is so sad that I feel a sense of pride over that statement. I don't think we will ever cure our binge drinking problem!
Hope that your livelihood is saved and gets stronger mate.
Also, good to see Tavern out there with Robbo