Liczba stron: 258Okładka: Paperback / MiękkaRozmiar: 19.6x12.4x2.4Waga: 199.6g
Features a portrait of life as a foreigner in rural Spain.
After a long career as a jet-setting journalist, Derek Lambert decided to settle with his family in a white "casita", on Spain's Mediterranean Costa Blanca.
This book explains how the author, tired of globe-trotting, decides to settle down in a casita among the citrus groves inland of the Costa Blanca. It introduces us to a Spain far removed from the tourist traps and thumping discos of the Costas, and explains that adapting to it is not easy.
In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Derek Lambert discovers the charms and idiosyncrasies of Spain as he experiences the rewards and frustrations of beginning a new life there. As Lambert and his wife set about restoring their moldering casita on Spain’s Mediterranean Costa Blanca and learning to live the life of Spanish villagers, he introduces us to a nation far removed from the matadors, tapas bars, and sangria swillers. He uncovers the “real” Spain–a nation of passionate, eccentric, often contradictory, but always enchanting people. Unpredictable, often hilarious, and animated by colorful characters, Spanish Lessons presents an intimate and delightful portrait of off-the-tourist-track Spain.
