More Ketchup Than Salsa

Confessions of a Tenerife Barman

By: Joe Cawley

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

It was while holding aloft a not altogether pleasant-smelling mackerel that the decision was made. 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. 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. And then the whole silly, sunny saga began....

When Joe and his girlfriend Joy decide to trade in their life on a cold Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand, and siestas. Little did they expect their foreign fantasy to turn out to be about as exotic as Bolton on a wet Monday morning.

Amidst a host of eccentric locals, homesickness, and the occasional cockroach infestation, pint-pulling novices Joe and Joy struggle with "Brits abroad" culture and learn that, although the skies might be bluer, the grass is definitely not always greener. A hilarious insight into the wild and wacky characters of an expat community in a familiar holiday destination, More Ketchup Than Salsa is a must-listen for anybody who has ever dreamed about jetting off to sunnier climes, finding a job abroad...or anybody who has even momentarily flirted with the idea of "doing a Shirley Valentine" in these trying economic times.

©2012 Joe Cawley (P)2017 Joe Cawley

Best narrated book ever listened to!

The narrator to this book was fantastic! The story was funny but the reader makes the audible book pop. Every book narrator should listen to this before they read for audible - great listen for the ears!

A FUN HOLIDAY

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ODD BALL FUN

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I LIKED THE GRITTINESS OF THE STORY. AN ODD ASSORTMENT OF CHARACTERS
WITH GRIT AND GUTS.

Magnificent, marvelous, more please!

It was all I could do to stop listening and make myself go to work! I couldn't put it down! This book is a tremendously entertaining, laugh out loud adventure. There are a few tears along the way, but you will be glad you took time for the journey. When you reach the last page, you feel as if you've made some new, forever friends.

Vivid & humorous tale of the owners of a Tenerife bar

I enjoyed the audible version of this book very much. I previously read the book and the follow-up book “Even More Ketchup Than Salsa: The Final Dollop.”
The audible version made the story come to life even more in my mind.
Thank you for a very entertaining & humorous tale of your life running a bar on the island of Tenerife! Wish you & your family many happy & profitable years there. Keep on writing!