Don C Andrews

Chilling Out In Ibiza (By Staying Through The Winter) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"What is Ibiza like in winter?"
When curious tourists asked me that question, I always used to answer something like this: Ibiza is an extraordinarily beautiful island, brought to verdant life when the first rains of winter kiss the parched soils of summer. The people who were born here, the Ibicencos, are a tough, resilient, yet good-humoured and tolerant race with a proud and complicated ancestry that embraces the solid common sense of the farmer and the adventurous spirit of the pirate. They are truly the salt of the earth, or at least close to it, with the salt flats of Ses Salines just next door to the city.
The island is also home to a diverse population of foreigners, who have chosen to live in "the world's largest voluntary lunatic asylum," according to Ra, the history teacher who lived in a tree. The diverse population of escapees, geniuses, renegades, free spirits, old hippies, retired army officers and others come out of hiding during the winter months and follow their own chosen paths through life, consciously or unconsciously following the golden rule of life on Ibiza : "Live life as you want to, but allow everybody else to do the same."
This book is a snapshot, a story of one year on the island as seen from the point of view of Don C. Andrews, who came to the island as a teacher, but quickly became a learner and a lover of an island where life can be hard and tough, but never boring. As he says in his preface "this book is a love letter to an island."
For those unfortunate enough to live in the cold and dark of the Northern Hemisphere in the winter, this e-book will bring a touch of Mediterranean sunshine and lightness of spirit to the darkest months of the year. And for those perceptive tourists who have asked the question this is what Ibiza is REALLY like when the tourists have all gone home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Don C Andrews
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370448852
• Artikelnr.: 48321523

Autorenporträt

Don C. Andrews was the Editor of the Ibiza Now magazine (in English) from 1989-2000 and the Ibiza Heute (German) from 1992-2000. He has worked with the Diario de Ibiza newspaper on several different projects, including a daily page of news in English during one summer and the translation of the annual tourist guide into English for several years running. He has an extensive archive of photos from Ibiza.
He speaks Spanish, German, Catalan, French and occasionally tries to converse in Russian to the bemusement of any Russian people he happens to meet. He translated the book Tales of Mel from Spanish to English, and is currently working on an online edition of this book. He has had articles published in three different languages in various Ibiza publications. He has appeared on television in Catalan and German, and taken part in various radio programmes in German and Spanish.
He had always thought somebody else would write a book about life on Ibiza in the 1980's, and is rather surprised to find that the job appears to have been left to him.
He is a fully-qualified teacher of science, but also teaches mathematics, modern languages, computing and other subjects too numerous to mention. He is currently working as a teacher of mathematics.
Chilling out in Ibiza is his first full-length book, although a second one is already in the pipeline, and he is currently preparing a work on the joys of desktop publishing in Ibiza. He looks forward one day to publishing a book featuring some of the works of his friend Nito Verdera about the explorer Cristobál Colón, who, he believes was born on Ibiza.
When not writing or teaching, Don enjoys reading in English, Spanish and German, long walks in the countryside, bird watching, taking part in quizzes, cookery and playing the guitar. He hopes to visit Ibiza more frequently if his literary career takes off.