I went to watch the England vs Ukraine football match at Linekers bar in Puerto Banus last week.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Linekers concept, it´s basically a large disco/bar that´s very popular with football fans as it shows the majority of English football matches live on its many TV screens. In fact, I spent the first hour of my visit last week watching not only the England match, but also thinking that Ireland were beating Italy 1-0 until it was kindly explained to me that the score was actually 1-0 to Italy – the broadcast was being fed from a Middle Eastern TV channel, and apparently the scores are always displayed back to front!Anyway, I digress…

…I had 3 pints of lager at €6 per pint. That´s the equivalent of £5.50 a pint with today´s euro sterling exchange rate – does anyone else think that this is a lot of money? My friend had a pint of coke and it cost him €5 (£4.60)

And they wonder why there will be no Brits coming to Spain this year!