Moving to Majorca

by Robert F. Burgess

Moving to Majorca is the true, humorous story of an American couple who motor scooter 700 miles across Europe one winter in search of the sun. Fighting roller coaster roads, high winds and higher mountains, their quest takes them halfway to Africa to the island of Majorca. Moving into a coastal villa with no running water they learn how to survive paradise one day at a time. What makes their adventure such a moveable feast are the humorously helpful characters met along the way. They range from the helpful pension lady in Italy who put warm wine bottles in the foot of their bed and stuffed newspapers down their coat fronts for warmth, to houseguests who have to be tricked to leave, and the incomparable Pap on Majorca who with his faithful dog Fugly try to land the islands largest, most uncatchable fish, and almost lose their lives doing it. This book is Provence on wheels. A total delight!

407 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 27, 2000

About the author

Robert F. Burgess grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and as a youth often trout-fished the same creeks and streams as Ernest Hemingway. At the end of World War II he served with the U. S. Army 88th Blue Devil Division Ski Troops in northern Italy. After the war he returned to Europe on the GI Bill to study foreign languages at universities in Italy and Switzerland; then completed his education in Journalism at Michigan State University. He became a Florida magazine writer/photographer specializing in sport fishing and scuba diving adventures. Later he returned to Europe with his wife to travel and write for various magazines there and abroad. The author lives in North Florida. Mr. Burgess has been called a Renaissance man because his books cover a wide spectrum of time and events. He writes real-life adventures about shipwrecks and sharks; treasure diving, cave diving; underwater archaeology, meeting Hemingway in Pamplona and short e-book stories about Marine snipers during the Vietnam War. His writing style puts the reader in whatever adventure he describes so that they themselves become part of that adventure.