I think the city needs an English Quarter. This has to feature "Drake's Inn", an English pub with a sinking Spanish galleon on the sign, which disappears quite often, and has the sign replaced by one that says "Drake's Head", and has a bloody head on the sign.
How long each sign stays up before being replaced with its counterpart could be a competition among the locals - both different signs must look like proper inn signs, of course. The local police have declared that it is all just fun, as long as no one gets hurt, and each sign must stay up for at least 24 hours. As a result the pub is listed under both names in the tourist literature, at the same location, but with no further explanation.
The English Quarter features the English ex-patriot community, mainly from ship building and other engineering families, though older Fen might like to live there who might otherwise have retired to a Spanish coastal home. There are also likely to be Irish here, maybe those once in the Belfast ship building industry. Oscar will realise that these people need proper food, so if he is feeling traditionalist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant
There are English pubs, English restaurants and English super markets (at least one 'Tesco'):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco
For extra fun you could call the English Quarter "Little Gibraltar":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar
There would have to be a local football (soccer) club...
Just a few thoughts...
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
How long each sign stays up before being replaced with its counterpart could be a competition among the locals - both different signs must look like proper inn signs, of course. The local police have declared that it is all just fun, as long as no one gets hurt, and each sign must stay up for at least 24 hours. As a result the pub is listed under both names in the tourist literature, at the same location, but with no further explanation.
The English Quarter features the English ex-patriot community, mainly from ship building and other engineering families, though older Fen might like to live there who might otherwise have retired to a Spanish coastal home. There are also likely to be Irish here, maybe those once in the Belfast ship building industry. Oscar will realise that these people need proper food, so if he is feeling traditionalist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant
There are English pubs, English restaurants and English super markets (at least one 'Tesco'):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco
For extra fun you could call the English Quarter "Little Gibraltar":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar
There would have to be a local football (soccer) club...
Just a few thoughts...
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind