Advantages: Brilliantly applicable, essential guide. Disadvantages: Could have more.
The Rough Guide To The Dordogne & The Lot, Including Bordeaux and its vineyards
£12.99 in the shops, you can buy this from £4.64 used, from Amazon.
Okay, here are the basics: 431 pages, 8 sections (including some 'picture' sections).
For those ...
Advantages: T'was a freebie! Disadvantages: You know, I don't think there were any?
...of choosing was upon us again. Would I plump for a Francis? A Koontz? A Mansell? An author I was familiar with? Nah, went for a Mayle. A Peter Mayle. An author and book that I had only fleetingly heard about when John Thaws visual offering of ‘ ...
Advantages: True to life Disadvantages: For me none
Having lived in a Mediterranean country, my chosen was Spain, and travelled widely throughout France,I found this book hysterical. I felt as if I were back in France or Spain. Knowing the Gallic shrug very well, as I am very close to a French family, I co ...
"A Year in Provence" and its sequel ""Toujours Provence" were for the ninties what James Herriot's classic farmyard antics were for the eighties: deliciously funny, escapist writing that tugged upon the nation's collective desire to escape the hum-drum of ...
