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La Vie

A year in rural France

Innbundet
Engelsk
La Vie
La Vie
  • Forfatter: John Lewis-Stempel
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 208
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780857526458
  • Utgivelsesår: 2023
  • Bidragsyter: Lewis-Stempel, John
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The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside.

For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. He wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers.

Over that first year, Lewis-Stempel fell in love with the French countryside, from the wild boar that trot past the kitchen window to the glow-worms and citronella candles that flicker in the evening garden. Although