Entre limones / Driving Over Lemons : Un Optimista En Andalucia

from tungsten_peerts

A lovely book: unpretentious, light in the best way, and delicately observed. It is kept from toppling into something more saccharine by the sometimes grim details of Andalucian life and culture -- vegetarians might find themselves wanting to look away from some of the depictions of mealtimes, an...

from BoundTogetherForGood

This was a bit of a slow memoir, but still enjoyable. I could relate to his story since we moved to England die a few years.

from Hanneri

I was very happy to come across this delightful little book by Chris Stewart who threw it all in to become a sheep-shearer and, eventually, the owner of a remote farm in the Alpujarras region of Andalucia. While this technically belongs in the same genre as similar works by Peter Mayle, Frances M...

from yosarian

This book is subtitled "An Optimist in Andalucia" and that very much sums up this delightful book of a couple moving to southern Spain. There has been a glut recently of people moving abroad, leaving the reality of life in England behind to try and capture that holiday feeling every day in anothe...

from girlunderglass

The statement Chris Stewart is making with this book can be summarized thus: "I was once the drummer of Genesis but gave up the rock'n'roll lifestyle to become a farmer and lead a quiet but much more fulfilling life in the Spanish countryside". As statements go, this is not particularly deep or t...