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Hostels and Hotels in Southampton
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Alresford, Brockenhurst, Chilworth, Curbridge, Curdridge, Eastleigh, Hythe, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Marchwood, Netley, Owslebury, Romsey, Southampton, Stockbridge, Timsbury, Totton, West Wellow, Winchester
For UK travelers going abroad, we recommend Tenerife, with feel of the UK yet all the sun of Tenerife. Read an extract below from More Ketchup than Salsa, the story of a English couple who left the UK to set up life in Tenerife. Info on how to buy the book can be found below.
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Below you will find short extracts from More ketchup than Salsa by Joe Cawley – not to be missed.
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Joy continued. ‘I didn’t tell you, but I got a phone call from your stepdad before I went to Tenerife. He said that the bar on El Beril, where his apartment is, had come up for sale and he was thinking of buying it as an investment. He asked me to collect the books for him to take a look at. When I called in, the owner said why don’t I take it over. Anyway, when I got back this morning Jack came to pick up the books and I joked about us two running the bar for him. Before I saw you he’d just called to say he’d been talking to your mum, and they both thought it was a good idea. We’d go into partnership with your brother and they’d help us raise the money.’ Whoa, whoa, whoa,’ I interrupted. This was in danger of becoming serious. ‘From having a bar job in Tenerife, we’ve gone into partnership with my brother and into debt with Jack to the tune of a hundred-and-sixty-five grand. All on an island two thousand miles away with a population that doesn’t speak English. And all behind my back. Where exactly does my opinion come into all this?’ Joy became defensive as she always did when she was on the offensive. ‘Calm down. It’s just an idea. Just forget I ever said it and tomorrow we can go back behind that crappy stall and stink of fish for the rest of our lives.’ Several pints later I suspect that they had been laced a little the whys and wherefores had progressed to whens and hows.
Alresford, Brockenhurst, Chilworth, Curbridge, Curdridge, Eastleigh, Hythe, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Marchwood, Netley, Owslebury, Romsey, Southampton, Stockbridge, Timsbury, Totton, West Wellow, Winchester
No, we’re all off. The hotel’s still on though. Its generator hasn’t kicked in.’ There was not much we could do in the heat. At the far side of the bar, the kitchen received little daylight through the open doorway and had been plunged into darkness. Fortunately all the prep had been completed and put away, but with the fridges off, any food would soon go off in theis heat. We sat outside with tepid beers. The cooler soon reverted to a heater without electricity. Half an hour passed and still the electricity didn’t come back on. We knew it wasn’t the old box at the back of the complex, as Mario had managed to get the electricity company to fix the problem. Not paid your bill?’ a voice asked from up above.
That night we both lay on top of the sheets unable to sleep, listening to the high-pitched excitement of a mosquito as it chose its next supper venue. For such a tiny creature, I have to say it has a helluva loud squeal, and the more I flailed the louder it became. There aren’t many more irritating noises than what sounds like a dentist’s drill kamikaze-ing at your head so in the end, armed with a size ten flip-flop in each hand I stood on the bed, head slightly cocked waiting for the manic squealing to return. Thwack-thwack. I let off both barrels of the flip-flop cannon, causing a snowfall of plaster flakes to drift slowly onto Joy’s head. Eeeeeeeee.’