Jim Tickner
ASIN: B00GLTOJSS
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 376
Many people dream of a lifestyle change, of going and finding healthy living in Spain, with sun, space and fresh orange juice every morning. Armed with a battered old Vauxhall Corsa, a droll sense of humour and the family dog, Patch, Jim Tickner has done just that. Filled with witty anecdotes of culture shock and family interaction, ‘Patch, His Pack, and Dear Old Reg’ is an informative and funny must-read of humour travel writing for anybody thinking of leaving dear old Blighty for warmer climes.As anybody deciding to uproot their life and try living in Spain will know, the 2,000 km trip from the UK to a small Spanish town west of Seville is not the biggest hardship ex-pats face in their quest for healthy living. Aside from general culture shock there is the fickleness of bureaucracy, the problem of not being able to find HP sauce in the supermarket, and the fact that the friendly ...