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HTML:THE ALMOND BLOSSOM APPRECIATION SOCIETY finds Chris and his family still living o their farm, El Valero, and with its easy 'Sun-Lit' charm and funny, evocative anecdotes, it will draw in new and old readers alike.
You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society.
You'll cringe with Chris as he stries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. And you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again...
In this sequel to 'Lemons' and 'Parrot', Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever. Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking.
Despite the extraordinary success of his books, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chloe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and misanthropic parrot.… (plus d'informations)
This is book three in the Driving Over Lemons series by Stewart. All three of the books are set in Andalusian Spain where Stewart and his wife moved after purchasing a subsistence sheep farm in a remote mountainous area of southern Spain. The series starts in the 1990's and the last book was published in 2014. Stewart was a minor celebrity when he purchased the farm. He was the original drummer for the rock band Genesis. His books have made him into a well known European author due to their best seller status in the UK and in Europe. The books are not well known in the USA and I had to get all of them through Inter-Library Loan requests. Almost all of them came from public library collections.
This series is really fun to read. They are part memoir and part travelogue as they chronicle the day-to-day life on the farm and in the remote villages of Spain. They also give details of travels that Stewart and his family do around Spain. In this book, the Almond Blossom Appreciation Society is a small group of men who hike up into the mountains to see the blossoms on the Almond trees. There is also a chapter on Stewart's skiing trip during a wicked cold snap, and his venture into Morocco to gather seeds to sell to gardeners in the UK. There is also details of farm life and the constant struggles of such a life that are leavened with humor and just the right amount of pathos. ( )
De las vivencias del autor emerge el retrato de un hombre inasequible al desaliento y siempre dispuesto a acometer nuevos desafíos, ya sea cuando forma parte del Club de Admiradores de los Almendros en Flor, cuando su hija lo instruye en los usos y costumbres de los adolescentes españoles, o cuando inesperadamente le toca hacer una visita guiada de Sevilla a millonarios norteamericanos y a posteriori decide enfrentarse al trabajo de oficina en un centro de ayuda al inmigrante. Los almendros en flor es una muestra más de la capacidad de Chris para contagiarnos con su mirada abierta, su optimismo sincero y, sobre todo, su inquebrantable buen humor.
Empeñado en mantener una saludable ingenuidad ante lo que la realidad cotidiana le depara, Chris Stewart vuelve a deleitarnos con episodios asombrosos de su vida campestre en «El Valero», su ya famosa finca en la Alpujarra granadina. Las vivencias recogidas en este tercer volumen de la serie iniciada con Entre limones y El loro en el limonero reflejan el particular talante de una persona con una incorregible tendencia a actuar movida por cierta visión idealista de las cosas. Los almendros en flor es una muestra más de la capacidad de Chris para contagiarnos con su mirada abierta, su optimismo sincero y, sobre todo, su inquebrantable buen humor. ( )
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HTML:THE ALMOND BLOSSOM APPRECIATION SOCIETY finds Chris and his family still living o their farm, El Valero, and with its easy 'Sun-Lit' charm and funny, evocative anecdotes, it will draw in new and old readers alike.
You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society.
You'll cringe with Chris as he stries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. And you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again...
In this sequel to 'Lemons' and 'Parrot', Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever. Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking.
Despite the extraordinary success of his books, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chloe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and misanthropic parrot.
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This series is really fun to read. They are part memoir and part travelogue as they chronicle the day-to-day life on the farm and in the remote villages of Spain. They also give details of travels that Stewart and his family do around Spain. In this book, the Almond Blossom Appreciation Society is a small group of men who hike up into the mountains to see the blossoms on the Almond trees. There is also a chapter on Stewart's skiing trip during a wicked cold snap, and his venture into Morocco to gather seeds to sell to gardeners in the UK. There is also details of farm life and the constant struggles of such a life that are leavened with humor and just the right amount of pathos. (