So is it anyone here?

I was shocked when we went on holiday to The Gambia. There were a lot of British female pensioners wrapped round young Gambian men. It seems normal for the woman to buy a house in Gambia and the young man's family move in to look after it while she is back in England! We encountered it over and over again.

Because the rooms in the hotel were so awful, we kept paying more and upgrading and ended up in the most expensive bungalow in the hotel grounds. I was quietly sitting outside with a cup of tea and a book when a young guard came up to me and said suggestively 'are you alone?'.

It's a shame because there is no time difference and the flight is only five hours so we would spend much of the winter there if it wasn't so awful.

I don’t think I ever went out with anyone as young as 19. Always preferred older men!

Grannybags I don't think a 19 year old would be experienced enough for me.....wink

But it might be fun to teach him.....

From the photographs it looks as though his hair has gone grey since the wedding two years ago (but not his beard)

It said that SHE was the one who had just come out of a relationship with a 77-year-old.

yggdrasil There is life in us old gals yet.

I honestly don't know how anyone could. He's the equivalent to a grandson as far as I'm concerned and it's tantamount to abuse.

I think the fact he says he was raised by his grandmother says a lot. Still as long as they are happy does it really matter.

Good luck to them

Liz46 I've been to the Gambia many times and can't agree with it "being so awful". The sea is a disappointment admittedly but the men folk are ok - just say "no thank you" and they leave you alone. There are lots of old British women who go over there for young men and it is they who have made the men think we are all after one thing. Seeing some of the ancient old crocks with young boys in tow is stomach churning but its only the same as young girls trotting after wrinkled old men in the Western World.

Dontaskme, that was not our experience unfortunately. We have been twice and have given up because of the dreadful pestering. 'No thank you' didn't work for us.

The locals in South Goa have got it just right - smiley and friendly but it's a dreadful journey back, leaving at 3.00 a.m.

Well, no such problems in Cleethorpes, sea and men quite acceptable