Joe Cawley

11 of 75 for 2015. So tell me. If someone gives up their home, their job, everything they know and travels to a foreign country to take on massive debt by buying a business with which they have absolutely no experience, are they brave or foolhardy? In More Ketchup than Salsa, Joe Cawley recounts the first six months of his life as a bar/restaurant owner in the Canary Islands, a part of Spain off the Moroccan coast. Without speaking Spanish, or having any background in the restaurant/bar business, he and his brother and their respective girl friends take the challenge and leave the UK for warmer climes. As much fun as this sounds, and Joe tells the story in a most enjoyable fashion, you have to figure that he left an awful lot out. Still, if you're in the mood for a tale about folk taking leave of their senses and everything else to become ex pat business owners on Tenerife, you'll enjoy this book.… (meer)