Giles Tremlett The Guardian
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I am hoping that a certain Giles Tremlett of the Guardian is vain enough to Google himself and find this post so that I can tell him what a pig ignorant ass he is.
Read his article if you can call the stuff he has spewed out an article. I have to wonder if he has ever visited Marbella.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/28/michelle-obama-holiday-choice-marbella
The one thing Marbella is not is tacky. We have incredible restaurants, world class hotels and if it is tacky why have Christian Dior, Gucci, Prada and Jimmy Choo all opened up outlets in the nearby Puerto Banus? I don’t see them down in Clacton in Essex do you?
Marbella is not high rise. Head to Torremolinos or Benalmadena for that and as for overrun with the mafia? Sorry, never had a gun pointed at my face yet and I can’t think of anywhere safer than walking around Marbella at midnight with other families and their small children. Read my post on what it was like on the World Cup final night here in Marbella. No drunks, no sleaze, just happy people filled with the joy of life, all ages….
Giles Tremlett’s description of the choice of food that Michelle Obama can enjoy is insulting, ignorant and just plain wrong. I have never seen any place, other than London where you can drive 5 minutes from your house and be literally spoilt for choice on superb restaurants. These are not catering for tourists, we have a year round season in Marbella because so many International people live here. With so many restaurants we walk away from those that do not serve up first class food and as a result the bench mark is high. Very high.
Do not avoid Puerto Banus front line marina as Giles suggests.Enjoy the many restaurants, the lavish boats, the fast cars and the scores of designer boutiques there. Enjoy people watching and don’t believe everything you hear about hookers and drugs. If you want that, walk behind the front line of Puerto Banus but you don’t have to. When you head to London you can avoid Soho, if you head to Amsterdam you can avoid the red light district, it does not spoil the charm of the town that you are in.
Culturally Giles Tremlett describes Marbella as “a dessert.” Well he didn’t see Seal play live then, he didn’t see the opera night, he didn’t see the week of the arts festival in Marbella and he obviously doesn’t classify our wonderful street parties and ferias as culture. Does he have no understanding of Spanish culture? The fiestas that we enjoy here in Marbella are absolutely Spanish culture and ones that all nationalities enjoy together in harmony. No race riots here or cries to ban the burka.
I’m not sure where Giles Tremlett spends his holidays but I expect it is somewhere terribly dull and anodyne, Marbella is neither of these and that’s why we get Michelle Obama rather than the likes of Giles….Hurrah.
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Sat, 31st Jul 2010 2:15 pm
Thanks for highlighting yet another out of date newspaper article by a snooty, lazy journalist who doesn’t appear to have travelled far from blighty or done his homework. I laughed at his comments on Sean Connery being a (presumably good) example of the sort of people who used to visit Marbella – if he’d checked the latest news coverage then he may have realised this is just the sort of person we don’t need in town! Never mind, could be worse, could be Giles Tremlett of the Guadian visiting!
Well I thought this rant was so good I retweeted it. I have previous with him regarding lazy journalism and he never interacts. One of the old school of journalists who will die out just like dinosaurs unless they change.
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It might also be worth pointing out his lack of geographical knowledge … aren’t they staying in Estepona!
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