The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil
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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a "new" French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community. The book opens the door on a bustling Mediterranean world using Carol Drinkwater's old abandoned villa as the gateway to it. It explores the local landscape, the various al fresco jazz festivals, the colourful carnival in Nice, the local cuisine, meals around an oval wooden table, the cycle of olive farming and pressing, local wines, Carol's bizarre friendship with a toothless Arab gardener, hours whiled away in a magnificent hammock lugged all the way from northern Brazil because its colours were an exact match for the slatted wooden shutters, and Picasso's museum at Antibes. It is a celebration of Appassionata and its wonderful olive-groved, sun-drenched world and its unlikely cast of characters.
Journal Entry 2 by gingergeoff at The Cherry Tree OBCZ in Steventon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (5/17/2008 UTC) at The Cherry Tree OBCZ in Steventon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
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I am taking this to the Cherry Tree meet.
I am taking this to the Cherry Tree meet.
Taken today after the Cherry Tree meet up to be released in Cardiff Bay at Kemis Cafe.
Journal Entry 4 by KemisCafeOBCZ at Kemi's cafe, Cardiff Bay in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (7/24/2008 UTC) at Kemi's cafe, Cardiff Bay in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
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On the bookshelf up stairs.
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On the bookshelf up stairs.
Please write a journal entry letting me know that this book was caught and has found a safe home with you. (It's anonymous, and you don't have to join Bookcrossing to do it.)Then read this book or give it to a friend, afterwards, hopefully you or a friend will release it again for someone else to find - just like you did.
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I did enjoy this book, although it has taken me a while to get round to reading it. It was much enjoyed while I was on holiday at the beginning of the year 2012.