Here We Go: A Summer on the Costa del Sol

by Harry Ritchie

An intrepid, arduous adventure to the last place on Earth unvisited by travel writers - the Costa del Sol. This fearless exposé of one of the world's most popular holiday destinations depicts life among the package tourists of Fuengirola, the ravers of Torremolinos, the medallion men of Marbella and the time-sharers and villa-owners of Calahonda.

Among the rigours faced by the author in his relentless pursuit of truth and San Miguel have been tackling a full Sunday roast with three veg in a hundred-degree heat, coping with the effects of amphetamine sulphate and trying in vain to achieve a tan on his underarms.

This book does for travel writing what portable phones have done for the monarchy. A must for anyone who has ever got plastered on sangria, suffered a peeling nose or disembarked at Gatwick wearing a sombrero.

Genres: Travel

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Harry Ritchie (b. 1958) is a Scottish writer and journalist. He is the author of six books, and numerous newspaper articles and book reviews.

Ritchiee attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh, then studied for a D.Phil. at Lincoln College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis on the literary scene of the 1950s was published by Faber as the book Success Stories in 1988. His subsequent works are the comic travel books Here We Go and The Last Pink Bits, the novels Friday Night Club and The Third Party, and a book about English grammar, English for the Natives (John Murray).

Ritchie edited the anthology New Scottish Writing, and contributed an essay to Nick Hornby's anthology of football writing, My Favourite Year, about his lifelong passion for Raith Rovers, his hometown football club.