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Yep, same experience.

I'm Canadian but living in Barcelona, in El Born district. I had no idea drunk Brits on vacation could make so much noise at nights. I live above a cafe/bar frequented by locals, and I have no issue with their late night (late night for this Canadian anyhow, around 10-midnight) enjoyment of tapas, wine and friends. Sure the Spaniards aren't exactly known for being quiet people, but it's not unreasonable levels of noise and they're quite quite after midnight. Its the bloody tourists that fly down on a 30 quid Ryanair flight with their lads for a weekend of fun in Barcelona and scream bloody marry at 3 am that get under my skin.

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I can only apologise. You're suffering from one of the lesser-known aspects of Theresa May's "hostile environment" policy. Many of my fellow countrymen are staunchly opposed to immigration, so we engage in a kind of reverse diplomacy. By exporting our loudest, rudest arseholes to destinations across Europe every weekend, we advertise the very worst aspects of British life and create a powerful deterrent against immigration.

In greece, said tourists are limited into specific resort towns where they can enjoy their general raucousness and binge drinking from their morning breakfast till almost the next one without generally infesting the streets of working people. I don't know why barcelona does not do that - they can arrange that with tour operators.

But that would neuter the GP's purported purpose, wouldn't it?

I lived in Spain for 3 years and moved constantly due to noise. Very few people I spoke to seemed to understand what my problem was. The few who did had long since accepted that it was just how things were.

I did make the mistake of living in a busy tourist area once, it's not a mistake I ever intend to repeat.

I will, however, apologise for the behaviour of my fellow countrymen and, if it's any comfort, please understand that a lot of us hate the 'drunken Brits' as much as everyone else does.

Likewise in Barcelona in a touristy area. Crazy noisy. With the summer just starting, I'm anticipating a few sleepless nights!

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