From the back cover: Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. Three years on, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloe, on their farm, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love, journalists beating a path to their door... and the shock of discovering that their beloved valley might once more be under threat of being engulfed by a dam. A Parrot in the Pepper Tree also looks back on Chris Stewart's former life - the hard times shearing in midwinter Sweden (and driving across the frozen sea to reach island farms); his first taste of Spain, learning flamenco guitar as a 20-year old; and his illustrious music career, drumming for his school band Genesis (sacked at 17, he never quite became Phil Collins), and then for Sir Robert Fossett's circus.

I really enjoyed this second part of the story too though not even close as much as of the first part! My Spain-fever is just getting worse and worse...:D

This book will be given to the next reader as a part of the wishlist tag game! Happy Reading!:)

The book made it safely to Turku and in my bookshelf. Thank you!!

This one took a bit of a funny start: right before reading it I finished another book about the adventures of Rauli Virtanen who's worked as a war correspondent since the 70s, lived all over the place and visited every single country in the world etc. So you can imagine it took a while to warm up to "made myself some tea, went out to look for the sheep, talked to my neighbour" -kind of a story :D But nevermind, it's still a nice book and I did enjoy following Chris' life events, just as I did in the first book.

I think Spain is one of the very few destinations that you can still fly to from Turku airport, so pick this up on the way! Or just on your way to Gdansk, Stockholm or... well, that's about it I guess :D Happy travels!