More Ketchup Than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071GD6XQ7 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 149 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After a two-week holiday in Tenerife, Joy and I vowed that a life in fish giblets was not going to be our destiny and a life in the sun, was. A complete lack of catering experience, zero business acumen, and the sum of our vastly wealth barely reaching waist level of a ceramic pig did little to deter our enthusiasm for buying a bar. "Where do we sign?" we replied. It was while holding aloft a not altogether pleasant-smelling mackerel that the decision was made. And then the whole silly, sunny saga began. The March rain hammered on the rotting tin roof high above the market stall, where I had spent the last six months pushing out dubious trays of marine life at three for a fiver. A hilarious insight
This book is fine, but it ends with asking you to buy another book to see how it ends! Frank T. Erceg It's actually quite an entertaining read, but the story doesn't end at the end of the book. Instead they want to buy another book to see how the story actually turned out. Not cool.. Amazon Customer said Adventures in Paradise?. This memoir was a delight to read! The tone of the writing was chatty, the wit very dry and funny as all get out. I have to admit though that by the end of the book (which wasn't actually the end.tsk tsk, Joenot cool to leave us hanging like this) I found myself thinking, Why oh why didn't you all just say "Screw this!" and go back home? One headache after another with fellow work mates and customers were at times hilarious and at other times, outright painful to r. "A Fun read." according to Deb G.. This was an enjoyable story about moving lock, stock and (beer) barrel to the Canary Islands. Not able to speak the language, and only knowing the bar business from the customer side, proved no deterrent to the author in light of moving to a warm, sunny vacation destination. The story started out slow and I found myself slightly irritated at the author's complacency towards work and life before their move. I'm glad I stuck with it, though. The bar business ends up