“Anyway, I eventually moved back to Fuengirola and worked in various shops and on the market selling farm produce. I also used to cook things to sell for myself… a tray of paella, some cakes… and pasties and pies went down well with the British.
“One man used to come every day there was a market, and he would buy half a dozen pies and half a dozen pasties off me every time. I thought he was the most dashing, handsome man that I had ever seen and when he smiled at me and complimented me on my cooking, I was so taken with him that I could barely speak! My colleagues used to poke fun at me saying that I used to go as red as a schoolgirl after her first kiss… but he was so… so exciting to be around”.
“Oh, Mum, how romantic, please go on!”
“Yes, it was. Anyway, I gradually began to find out
