false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174426643m/398080.jpg 398080 11 All Provenced out? Then head further south, to the breathtaking mountainous climes of Andalucia. Just don't be squeamish about driving over lemons. Chris Stewart, skilled sheep-shearer and sometime Genesis drummer, took one look at the Alpujarrás, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and decided that's where he wanted to be. This is the story of his adventures coming to terms with the terrain, the lifestyle and, of course, the locals, who possess all the rugged, homespun charm you'd expect. Stewart soon discovers all the hidden foibles of his bargain purchase, and spends the following year (rendered here in detail) installing the little luxuries of life like, say, water.<p> However, just when you're worrying that all this might degenerate into a rose-tinted Englishman-finds-nature idyll, Chris's wife enters the fray. Nonsense-free, straight-talking and relentlessly unsentimental, Ada should be a required resource for all travel writers. Ada gets bored with the fake machismo of pig-killing, Ada sees through the selfless "help" of the natives, Ada calls a peasant a peasant. With her on board, Stewart has the perfect counterbalance to his declared optimism, and <I>Driving over Lemons</I> becomes a loving but clear-sighted encomium, economically and wittily written, to a wonderful part of the world. --<I>Alan Stewart</I> 2834107 3 6 1999 Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia total:472|5:75|4:176|3:175|2:35|1:11| 472 1685 664 93 3 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Sep 18 19:10:18 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 19:10:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Nov 18 13:11:25 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 13:15:43 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:58:07 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 15:02:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jan 17 05:34:20 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 05:36:29 -0800 2009 4 1 true false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Sep 04 11:08:52 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:08:52 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Dec 31 11:51:56 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 11:52:07 -0800 2008 here. I think one of the things I enjoyed the most about it was the interplay between Stewart and his neighbors as he learned the ways of his new home. Domingo is...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 14:23:19 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:54:30 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Apr 20 16:53:12 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 18:10:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Oct 04 18:19:30 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:19:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:40:36 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 03:56:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 22:15:52 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 01:15:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 25 05:30:37 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 05:33:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:28:31 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:30:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 02:42:54 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 09:20:37 -0700 2009
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