Driving Over Tinfoil (prose)
By Ewan
This collection's name comes from the name of a poem in Poems for Cyril, also available here on ABCTales, folks! Very different to lemons, tinfoil. Good old Chris! The Alpujarras sound so nice I'd like to move there myself. This is what inland in the Province of Malaga is like. The names have been changed, but those who think they have been libelled, think again.
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Music to Watch Girls By
The boys watch the girls watch the boys.......
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Homage to Caledonia
Venta characters: Jock
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A Person of Interest
Pick a word, build a story round it... what do you get? Not very much... Okay, what was the word?
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A Person of Note
500 (and five) words about not very much
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Adverb to the Wise
A class with Inez
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Another Departure
The Venta grows ever quieter.... times are tough.
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Campo Communiqué
It may have been crap, but it was my local...
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Caveat Emptor
Why your dream home in the sun gets knocked down...
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Christmas in El Campo
how it is...
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Coming to Andalucia
early days in Spain
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Monkey Business
Something interesting in the Venta
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One Good Turn
careful who you pick-up
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One For The Road
WIP. As the introduction to the collection this story is in says -it's nothing like Driving Over Lemons here.
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What's in a Name?
More from Montevista, no murders this time, except of good taste. I'm very glad no-one I know reads these.
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Opportunity Knocks
Never judge a book...
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That Andalucian Moment
IPOW 27/06/08
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The Ex-Pat Files
why do people make such stuff up... do they take a fantasy pill at the airport on arrival?
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Learning to Fly
Sometimes you've got to write something, just to prove you can still string a sentence together...
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Hard Times at Montevista
It would help to read 'One for the Road' or the rest of this set... perhaps.
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Humble Pie.
I was wrong. I admit it.
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The Marbella Job
A job on the coast...
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Madrugada Meg
Seville Nights...
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The Wrong John
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_22114.shtml
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Intercambio
An entry for a competition in local English freesheet. The competition was to celebrate the paper's 25th anniversary. 200 words, including, somewhere, the number 25 was the remit. No, it didn't.
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Sorry for the Inconvenience.
Inland life part 302
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Fred And Rita
about not very much...
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Lunch
not about anything really...
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The Golden Days Return
...
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Friday Night at Hong Bin Lo
What it says...
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Counting Down
Written for a friend... gone but not forgotten
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A Miracle in Villablanco
An old story, in more ways than one...
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Despedida de Soltero
Despedida de Soltéro is literally "A Farewell to Bachelordom", it means stag night, effectively. Warning: may contain Spanish words...
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Crowlines
this must happen a lot... image source: https://batgurrl.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/dscn0966.jpg
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The View from There
Short, about nothing much... so what?
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A Last Night in the Rock Hotel
When I last stayed there, around 15 years ago, it was a little seedy, it's had a very nice refurb since then...
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Fine
Whatever you think, you wouldn't want to be in their shoes... Picture is from Google Maps. No known copyright issues.
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El Coño
The title is a very rude word in English, perhaps not quite so in Spanish. Picture is one of the Spanish alternatives to the word in the title. From Wikipedia Commons This work is in the public domain
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Counting
Flash Fiction... Spain has been good to me, perhaps not to Mr Byng. Image source is Pixabay and licence is CC0
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With a Blue Jug in Her Hand
Erase una vez vivia yo en un pueblo Andaluz Image source RTVAlhaurinElGrande.es. No known copyright issues.
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Be Careful What You Wish For.
Pepa looked at the kitchen. Dishes were piled high next to the stone sink. The tablecloth was a battlefield of crumbs and jam. The dog's blanket was...
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One Good Turn
This is a repost. I wrote it many years ago at the beginning of an OU CW course. I've fiddled with it, but not much, and there's a picture of a house on 'Montevista', which is not the Urbanización's real name, but nearly is. Image is author's own.
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El Duende
More from the archives. Not a repost, as far as I can tell. Duende is the hardest word to explain I ever came across in Spanish. This one is for all the friends I made amongst students and barflies. Image source Flickr.com: photographer Albertus 82: licence CC-BY-NC 2.0
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Waiting for Ijemma
I must write down more of these people I used to know in Spain, before I forget them. Of course, changing the names means their true identity will disappear, so will I remember them or not? Anyway, the bones of this are true.
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Enrique VIII
Life-writing, some details changed to avoid law-suits. Image source wiki-commons licence CC-SA 2.0 photograph by Iyudai (from somewhere near Tokyo)
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Puebla de Sanabria
Not about much. Image source wiki-commons/ licence CC-BY SA 3.0/Photographer: Vegafotoswiki
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The Woman on the Beach
This is some flash I wrote whilst still living in Spain. It seems I write better at a distance, but I still quite like this one. Image free for non-c use at Unsplash.com original photograph Stephano Zocca.
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Hardly Any Degrees at All
of separation that is. Image source Wikipedia commons licence CC-SA 3.0 photographer KennosiS
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Se Vende
Desperate measures? Minor edits. Count as read.
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The Thief at the Café De Bs. As.
Some of this is true, I'll leave you to decide what. Image is free for non commercial use licence CC0 - PD source Pxhere.com
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Nurses
Image is from NHS Trust Rotherham's website and is dated 2015 and is used on the presumption that this is fair use. here is a link
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El Día de Todos los Santos*
Boring travel writing, nothing to see here. Image is from Google Maps via Picasa. No known copyright issues.
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Feria
Feria means fair, but unless you've been to a Feria in Southern Spain, you'll never know what it really means. This was written around the time of our last Feria de Mayo, in Alhaurin El Grande, before we left a year later. I've posted it for a bit of warmth on a grey winter's day. No copyright issues with the image of the poster. We were encouraged to share the new Feria Poster every year.
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Stray Cat Strut
Dredged up from some zeroes and ones that used to be in a desktop computer. I wrote this an hour after meeting the guy in the story. He did play at the venta, later in the year. His rockabilly band went down a storm. [Image is PD and shows The Blue Caps and Sweet Gene, who I very much doubt ever visited Andalucia].
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