Spanish Lessons

£7.99

Spanish Lessons is Derek Lamberts brilliant and humorous evocation of the culture and lifestyle of Spain and its people, in which he experiences the rewards and frustrations of being a stranger in a strange land.

After a long career as a globe-trotting journalist, Derek Lambert decided to settle with his wife and young son among the citrus groves of the Spanish countryside. A mouldering white casita near a quaint village on Spain's Mediterranean Costa Blanca becomes his new home.

As he sets about restoring his house and learning to live the life of a Spanish villager, Lambert introduces us to a Spain far removed from the matador, tapas bars and sangria swillers. In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, he uncovers the "real" Spain - a nation of passionate, eccentric, often contradictory but always enchanting people - as he adapts to his new found home.