19 BIDING TIME
“So, my dears”, he said at the breakfast table in the garden, “how are you settling into life in Spain?”
They looked at one another, silently determining who was going to go first on that delicate subject. Lek had to start them off.
“Well, on the plus side, I’m really glad that we didn’t go straight to a cold country like Wales in the winter, because having no family or friends around us in the freezing cold would have been difficult, but here, at least it’s warm and they have food that we recognise… I mean things that we would eat in Thailand like rice, chillis, fish, chicken and pork… and they tend to cook it like we do in the restaurants, except that it’s not as hot as we like it… and it’s not cooked in exactly the same way”.
“Yes, that’s why I suggested coming here –
