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Author:
Robert F. Burgess
By AuthorHouse
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List Price: $15.95
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Product Description
Moving to Majorca is the true, humorous story of an American couple who motor scooter 700 miles across Europe one winter in search of the sun. Fighting roller coaster roads, high winds and higher mountains, their quest takes them halfway to Africa to the island of Majorca. Moving into a coastal villa with no running water they learn how to survive paradise one day at a time. What makes their adventure such a moveable feast are the humorously helpful characters met along the way. They range from the “helpful” pension lady in Italy who put warm wine bottles in the foot of their bed and stuffed newspapers down their coat fronts for warmth, to houseguests who have to be tricked to leave, and the incomparable “Pap” on Majorca who with his faithful dog “Fugly” try to land the island’s largest, most uncatchable fish, and almost lose their lives doing it. This book is Provence on wheels. A total delight!
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Moving To Majorca, 2007-10-18
What a super book -- beautifully written, and with a marvelous tale. Burgess is clearly a great story-teller! I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and will now be searching for others he may have written.
Majorca adventure., 2003-02-04
I have known the writer R.F. Burgess 50 years ago when we both studied in Neuchatel Switzerland and was most surprised that he wrote this most interesting book about travelling with his wife by motor scooter from Neuchatel to Majorca. His narrative is very descriptive and the reader easily visualises the travel to and the events and life on that island. I particularly liked his inclusion of the sojourn of G.Sand and Chopin there as they were subject of an essay I wrote in my French Literature course.
"New Majorica Travel Book is Great !", 2000-10-23
BRAVO! A wonderful book about the island of Majorca! The author, Robert Burgess, and his wife, Julie, spent time there when Majorca was still a quiet, romantic, picturesque spot in the Mediterranean. This is an account of their trip one winter from Switzerland to Milan, Italy, where they purchase a motor scooter and travel 700 miles across the Rivieras to Spain. And then by boat to Majorca. Every mile of their trip is marked by unusual people or events encountered along the way, including their getting lost and their battling the Mistral when no one else would venture out into it. But it's on Majorca where the story really gets interesting. They rent a villa on a deserted part of the island where water is caught in a roof catch basin, and the cheapest beverage is either wine or island-made champagne. I found the chapter on Valldemosa especially interesting as it describes the very rooms where George Sand and Chopin lived for a winter in a monastery there. The reader can't help but be touched by the happy details from Chopin's letters, despite his suffering from tuberculosis even as he continues to compose his music. And I won't even mention the fishermen, or Pap struggling to catch the islands biggest "un-catchable" fish, El Señor, with the help of his faithful greyhound aptly named Fugly. Those characters brought tears to my eyes, and they weren't all from laughter! Anyone who enjoys reading about good travel adventures with the kind of humorous characters that often make books about living abroad so popular, will love this one!
Bravo!!, 2000-08-29
Moving to Majorca by Robert F. Burgess is a wonderful chronicle of the author and his wife's adventures in Europe shortly after their marriage. The book begins in Neuchatel Switzerland then moves to Milano Italy at the Lambretta Factory where they purchased a motor scooter and readied it for a 700mile trip through Italy, France and Spain by following the Mediterranean coast. After a chilly, hair-raising, roller-coaster ride on twisty coastal roads through quaint villages and windblown boarder crossings, they finally end up on the beautiful island of Majorca where they spent the winter in a white stucco hilltop villa. This book is full of interesting people, humorous stories and exotic places making it perfect for anyone that wants a fun and memorable read. The exciting bullfight described in 'The Best of the Best' (Ch.33) makes it worth the price of admission.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780595090587
ISBN: 0595090583
Label: AuthorHouse
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 407
Publication Date: 2000-04-27
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date: 2000-04-27
Studio: AuthorHouse |
