A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
by Peter Mayle (Vintage Departures)
They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of
someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it
happened. Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that
Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first
year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old
stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first
mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc
with the pipes, to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises and
procrastination of the local masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights us with
his strategies for survival.
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