The first time I went abroad was in 1986; the destination was the party town of Magaluf, Majorca.
Peter Dench the british abroad: British_Abroad01 15:14 A group of British men, most of who are not wearing shirts, head in to the part of San Antonio town, Ibiza, known as the West End. Partygoers must be ready to embrace the lows along with the highs.... A full edit of the reportage with accompanying text is available from At our hotel, boys from Bury hurled carrier bags containing their bottom deposits from the balcony into unsuspecting fun seekers staggering along the street below. The British Abroad : Magaluf The first time I went abroad was in 1986; the destination was the party town of Magaluf, Majorca. I told him I was fine. Peter Dench.
The remainder of the holiday was spent bouncing down newly built water slides on bleak mountainsides (I doubt the slides had the required safety standard kite mark); watching fixed grin dolphins perform predictable tricks and flicks with a ball and bobbing around in the sea with my frequently topless mum and sister (according to the poorly framed and focused film photographs that remain in the album). Britons regularly top the league of drunken holiday hooligans. Photographer based in London traveling world-wide to complete assignments. Britons regularly top the league of drunken holiday hooligans. My dad pulled on his dark blue swimming trunks with light blue trim; I pulled on my light blue swimming trunks with dark blue trim; we both pulled up a chair at our beach bar of choice and washed the omnipresent English staple down with a couple of beers.
the british abroad : : Peter Dench : Peter Dench. In the morning, my dad asked if I was OK?
The world of the clubbing holiday is a place of extremes, and one of the greatest is alcohol. Peter Dench the british abroad: British_Abroad08 14:47 A young woman on a boat party for seasonal British workers in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, holds a carton of Sodap Dry Rose Wine.
Two girls from Newcastle, in an adjacent bedroom, warned us not to leave our towels to dry on the balcony as the sun turned them yellow; it wasn’t the sun that turned them yellow - it was more body deposits cascading down from the Bury boys. Peter Dench the british abroad: British_Abroad25 15:08 A Scottish woman checks on the well being of a British man slumped on a wall next to Magaluf beach, Majorca.
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the british abroad: British_Abroad19. Peter Dench. Peter Dench. Photographer based in London traveling world-wide to complete assignments. On our second morning, Jason woke up stuck to his hotel bed sheets, a layer of skin the length of his now red raw torso had been removed; he had no memory of how it happened. On arrival holidaymakers are met by party promoters selling tickets for everything the Brit abroad has come to expect: foam parties; boat parties; water parties; luminous paint parties and the holiday staple, the organised party bar crawl.
Photographer based in London traveling world-wide to complete assignments. I told him I did not and suggested we go for a full English breakfast.
Peter Dench the british abroad: British_Abroad04 Advertisement boards for the English Breakfast available in: Ayia Napa, Cyprus; Sunny Beach, Bulgaria; San Antonio, Ibiza and Magaluf, Majorca. Aged 14, already a seasoned beer drinker, my parents decided it was OK for me to have an alcoholic spirit in my drink; the alcoholic spirit I chose was the white rum,
He asked If I remembered being woken from the bath in our hotel room on several occasions during the night. Peter Dench.
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The world of the clubbing holiday is a place of extremes, and one of the greatest is alcohol.
The second time I went abroad was in 1989; the destination was the party town of Magaluf, Majorca. Photographer based in London traveling world-wide tocomplete assignments. During the day, we carried our money around in plastic tubes hung from string around our necks; during the night, we left the plastic tubes that carried our daily allowance in the back of taxis or at the bar.
Photographer based in London traveling world-wide to complete assignments. Aged 14, already a seasoned beer drinker, my parents decided it was OK for me to have an alcoholic spirit in my drink; the alcoholic spirit I chose was the white rum, Bacardi .
A few days later, as we passed a deep roadworks excavation, he remembered.
Peter Dench. My family had been replaced with friends Marc, Jason and Stuart.