Toujours Provence
This is a second enjoyable helping of rural life in France from the author of "A Year in Provence". Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the bottom of the garden - you might think there is little time...
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This is a second enjoyable helping of rural life in France from the author of "A Year in Provence". Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the bottom of the garden - you might think there is little time left for pleasures of the table. "Toujours Provence" proves that while you might not be able to get away from it all, you can have fun trying.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140279344 (0140279342)
Publish date: June 28th 2001
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Series: Provence (#2)
One of Mayle's follow-ups to A Year in Provence (there are at least two), this one read more like a collection of short essays of the type that might have perhaps been columns in a newspaper or magazine. Nevertheless, it was thoroughly enjoyable and dangerous to read him describing a life that sou...
After rereading A Year in Provence, my next logical book to read was Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle's follow-up to the wildly successful A Year in Provence. To be honest, while I could remember reading the first book, I had no recollection of reading Toujours Provence and now I remember why.::: When...