Champagne Dreams

An extract from my book Broke, a Life of Small Change

“Think Champagne and you’ll drink Champagne; think beer and you’ll drink beer.”  

That’s what my mother told me. So I blame her for my champagne expenditure on a beer income. Nowhere did the advice prove more lethal than in Puerto Banus, just outside Marbella in southern Spain, where I had just bought an apartment. Sunkissed Villas might not have paid me…