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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #550552 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
All Provenced out? Then head further south this year, 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 Alpujarr´s, 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.

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 Driving Over Lemons becomes a loving but clear-sighted encomium, economically and wittily written, to a wonderful part of the world. --Alan Stewart

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Customer Reviews

One of those books that you don't want to finish
I tried to read the book as slowly as possible and savour each word as I just didn't want to get to the end. Dragging the consciousness back into commuting across a grey London was hard going for a few days. Looking forward to the sequel.

Warm, witty and wonderful
I read this book whilst on holiday in Northern Italy and couldn't put it down. I had no idea that goats could break wind and belch simultaneously! I can't wait to hear his next installment of life as a stranger in a strange land. Easy reading and highly recommended.

A delight
What a wonderful, evocotive book this is. A charming story of a young couple's attempt to live a new life in Spain running a farm. This tale is warm, funny, loving and leaves a nice warm glow. Highly recommended.