With under two weeks to go in this year's competition, it gives me great pleasure to feature our latest travel highlight from well-known author Ann Patras with her entry Mistaken identity?
Mistaken identity?
I travelled along the corridors, turning left then right, along another windowless stretch. On and on, past the room of sticky substances, skirting the place of skeletal photography. No sounds but the swish of small wheels on a soft floor, up in a lift to the fifth level.
We had arrived at room 546.
I stared in disbelief. It was a mens ward!
The orderly pointed to the description on my transfer sheet “Masculino”
“What do you think these are,” I asked pointing to the protrusions on my chest, “oranges?”
The Spanish hospital orderlies and I erupted into raucous laughter.
I travelled along the corridors, turning left then right, along another windowless stretch. On and on, past the room of sticky substances, skirting the place of skeletal photography. No sounds but the swish of small wheels on a soft floor, up in a lift to the fifth level.
We had arrived at room 546.
I stared in disbelief. It was a mens ward!
The orderly pointed to the description on my transfer sheet “Masculino”
“What do you think these are,” I asked pointing to the protrusions on my chest, “oranges?”
The Spanish hospital orderlies and I erupted into raucous laughter.
| Ann Patras Ann’s first memoir was twenty-seven years in the making before being published in 2014. Into Africa with 3 kids, 13 crates and a husband has been an Amazon No 1 Bestseller in its category several times and in 2016 won the Silver Award in the UK’s Wishing Shelf Book Awards. The sequel More Into Africa with 3 kids, some dogs and a husband was published in 2016 and has also hit Amazon’s No 1 spot in its category numerous times. The third book in the series is on its way. |  |
After living in Africa for 31 years the author moved to Spain in 2011. Ann has been married to her (first) husband for over 43 years – longer if he’s lucky – and they still have those three ‘kids’, who have now followed them to Spain.
With all the silly things that happen to this family there are many more books to come.
With all the silly things that happen to this family there are many more books to come.
