Travellers total disregard for the law

Tuaim

pascal30

Roughly speaking there are Irish Travellers, Roma from Eastern Europe and Gypsies who originated in India.. Each have their own cultures, beliefs and languages. In Spain you also have Gitanos, Tsiganes and Egyptiens.. I have been to several Gypsy Festivals in The Camargue and Spain and they were Catholic festivals with people travelling from all over Europe to attend.. and of course there are New Age Travellers

Thank you very much for this. Very interesting. I seem to recall a great flamenco guitarist called Manitas De Plata who came from the Carmargue who was a gypsy. Loved his music.

I heard Paco de Lucia playing there. One of the absolute highlights of my life...

pascal30

Tuaim

pascal30

Roughly speaking there are Irish Travellers, Roma from Eastern Europe and Gypsies who originated in India.. Each have their own cultures, beliefs and languages. In Spain you also have Gitanos, Tsiganes and Egyptiens.. I have been to several Gypsy Festivals in The Camargue and Spain and they were Catholic festivals with people travelling from all over Europe to attend.. and of course there are New Age Travellers

Thank you very much for this. Very interesting. I seem to recall a great flamenco guitarist called Manitas De Plata who came from the Carmargue who was a gypsy. Loved his music.

I heard Paco de Lucia playing there. One of the absolute highlights of my life...

Fabulous.

Thanks Pascal30. The community I know best is the Irish Travellers. We have a big group on a council estate near what is now a main road and was a traditional traveller stopping point in the past. Like every other community, there are some interesting, likeable people and some less likeable people making money from organised crime.
My experience was that unless alcohol or more recently drug addiction blighted parents, children were loved, nurtured and the centre of family life. Just like the rest of us.
Catholicism remains important. Christenings, first communions and weddings = new clothes and parties.
Traditionally they’re a group who tell their history in song and story telling, These days literacy recognised as important so children stay through primary and up to 13-14 - by which time school isn’t seen as so,important.

Getting trust if you’re seen as an authority figure is key. Once you’re accepted as trustworthy -youre in. The suspicion of authority is based of the history of being outsiders

We had quite a few traveller families at our school. Usually they went to a permanent camp during the winter and the children came to school
We had one young lad (10) who went ‘tarmacing’ all summer. When he came back he went to the school office one lunch time and asked where he could go to have a fag
’. The school secretary was beyond speech.

My DH's maternal grandfather came from an Irish travelling family. He settled in the UK in the 1890s.
DH, MIL,her brother, and my younger DS all of have/ had some wanderlust in their blood.Also a love of bright colours, (MIL would paint the inside of her house about once a month with garish coloured paint ).They also had a great affinity with animals especially dogs, which is very apparent in DS even now.
DS is very law abiding like his late father. They knew about the consequences if they disobeyed.

Primrose53

One of my friends married into a traveller family many years ago. They are from genuine Romany stock but bought land decades ago in our village and settled here.

They live in modern trailers but their parents and grandparents lived in the traditional old wagons, some of which they still have and are beautiful. tiny pullout beds for children and shelves for all their family china.

LastChristmas they finally moved into their newly built home which is massive and she knows I call itSouthFork after the one in Dallas TV prog. It is taking her a long time to get used to it.Her 4 adult kids and 11 grandchildren still live in trailers nearby.

We often go on rideouts with them around the countryside and finish off at a local pub.

Gosh , what a life you must lead. Romany riding buddies. Must be great.