A Year in Provence

Such fun! The dream was tarnished a bit when all the boorish uninvited guests started showing up; I simply do not understand the author's inability to tell them to fuck off. Once that part was past it was back into the fantasy life of rural France.

Overall a very good read.

I read A Year in Provence while I was in Provence. Perfect mesh of book and environment for reading. Mind you, I read this book when it first came out, but this reread was not in any way tedious as rereads (for me) can be. Little stories of life in a new spot, centered on the changes in the seasons, were delightful.

Delicious, descriptive writing, which kept me quite entertained and in various states of l'amusement.

A lovely, slightly caricaturised, lightly humoured recollection of an Englishman's year in Provence. Includes food, Provençal customs, wine, Provençal driving, normalmente, food, wine, English visitors, and a lot more.