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  • By: Jean Gill
  • Narrated by: Jan Cramer
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By: Jean Gill
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The true scents of Provence? Lavender, thyme, and septic tank.

There are hundreds of interesting things you can do in a bath, but washing dishes is not one of them, nor is it what writer Jean Gill had in mind when she swapped her Welsh Valley for a French one.

Keen to move out of the elephant's stomach, that stew of gray mists called weather in Wales, she offered her swimming certificate to a bemused Provençale estate agent and bought a house with good stars and its own spring water. Or, rather, as it turns out, a neighbor's spring water that is the only supply to the kitchen, which, according to the nice men from the Water Board, is emptying its dirty water directly and illegally onto the main road.... And there's worse....

But how can you resist a village called Dieulefit - "God created it" - the village "where everyone belongs"?

Discover the real Provence in good company.

©2008 Jean Gill (P)2015 Jean Gill
Biographies & Memoirs Europe Travel Writing & Commentary
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too many subject jumps with no storytelling flow

a huge amount of facts thrown together (with an overload of picodon information and unexplained french words) does not a story make. you do get a smile here or there but it's like listening to someone read from an encyclopedia of local french history and law. didn't like this one. I'll stick to Peter Mayle much more entertaining.

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