Diario de Madrid: Junio 2005: El Bar Irlandes 1: los clientes habituales

I have started to really enjoy my job here. The actual work is mundane and boring in the extreme, but Irish bars are fascinating places for people-watching. I have seen the like of whom I never before presumed possible to exist – from the most painfully stupid and ignorant, to professors, artists, lawyers and every type in between.

You have the inevitable expat regulars, who like to sit and scratch their balls whilst drinking Guinness and watching cricket on the BBC. This type of clientele, by and large, speak very bad Spanish and work as English teachers. I have yet to divine exactly why they are here, as they complain about every aspect of Spanish life yet have no intention of returning to the Mother Land.