Driving over lemons

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"An idyllic life in a remote, sunny part of Europe is a fantasy normally punctured by harsh realities, and abandoned. Chris is made of sterner stuff. DRIVING OVER LEMONS is a wonderful account of his Andalucian adventure." Peter Gábriel, former Genesis bandmate Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. At age seventeen Chris retired as the drummer ot Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucía. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo... nor watched his baby daughter Chloé grow and thrive there ... nor written this book. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. DRIVING OVER LEMONS is that rare thing: a funny, insightful book that charms you from the first page to the last... and one that makes running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly good move.... Tovább

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"An idyllic life in a remote, sunny part of Europe is a fantasy normally punctured by harsh realities, and abandoned. Chris is made of sterner stuff. DRIVING OVER LEMONS is a wonderful account of his Andalucian adventure." Peter Gábriel, former Genesis bandmate Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. At age seventeen Chris retired as the drummer ot Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucía. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo... nor watched his baby daughter Chloé grow and thrive there ... nor written this book. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. DRIVING OVER LEMONS is that rare thing: a funny, insightful book that charms you from the first page to the last... and one that makes running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly good move. Chris ttansports us to Las Alpujarras, an oddball region south of Granada, and into a series of misadventures with an engaging mix of peasant farmers and shepherds, New Age travellers and ex-pats. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm that he and Ana bought, El Valero - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity. Could life offer much better than that? Vissza