Driving Over Lemons
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Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist.
At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of 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 Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo...not watched his baby daughter Chloë 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 gd move. Chris transports 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?
Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cking. Since writing Driving Over Lemons, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chlöe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and one misanthropic parrot.
El Valero; paradise submerged; a summer aprenticeship; bridge building; moving in with Pedro; lost illusions; Domingo and the search for beams; the time of Matanzas; counting sheep; walking with the water; cats and pigeons; building the house; dogs and sheep; breeding; Chloe and the immaculate conception; friends and foreigners; herbs and husbandry; market forces; Chloe's christening; water over the bridge.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.1999 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 131 x 199 mm |
Gewicht | 273 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch | |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
ISBN-10 | 0-9535227-0-9 / 0953522709 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-9535227-0-5 / 9780953522705 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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