Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>National Bestseller?</b><br><br>In this witty and warm-hearted account?? Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize  a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the  remote country of the Lub?ron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's  frosty mistral as it comes howl"g down the Rh?ne Valley?? discovers the secrets of  goat racing through the middle of town?? and delights in the glorious regional cuisine.  <b>A Year in Provence</b> transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Proven?al life  and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons?? not by days.</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Who hasn't dreamed?? on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday?? of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Proven?al cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies?? but is it really all C?tes-du-Rh?ne and fleur-de-lis?  Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit?? warmth?? and wicked candor in <i>A Year in Provence</i>?? the chronicle of his own foray into Proven?al domesticity. <p> Beginning?? appropriately enough?? on New Year's Day with a divine luncheon in a quaint restaurant?? Mayle sets the scene and pits his British sensibilities against it. "d about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers??"he writes?? "ooked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards?? dreamed of being woken up by the sun slanting through the bedroom window."He describes in loving detail the charming?? 200-year-old farmhouse at the base of the Lub?ron Mountains?? its thick stone walls and well-tended vines?? its wine <i>cave</i> and wells?? its shade trees and swimmi