FROM PAELLA TO PORRIDGE -
A Farewell to Mallorca and a Scottish Adventure
ISBN: 978-09576586-53
This is the fifth and final book in Peter Kerr's award-winning pentad of fun-filled Mallorcan travelogues, which also includes Snowball Oranges, Mañana Mañana, Viva Mallorca! and A Basketful of Snowflakes.
After three years of hard work, the Kerr family say a reluctant goodbye to their little orange farm in the Tramuntana Mountains. Their Mallorcan experience comes to an end with a surprise paella feast, full of bonhomie, though tempered with an inescapable sense of poignancy.
Now begins their return-to-Scotland adventure. A period of challenges and change finds them attempting to start a deer farm on the brow of a remote hill, and trying to earn a living by restoring houses in the rolling East Lothian countryside. Yet they still find time to explore their homeland with fresh eyes, visiting such places as the 'Biarritz of the North', once a haven for witches and Treasure Island pirates, and even gaining an insider's view of the world-famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
There's never a dull moment in the Kerr household –
even when it's porridge for breakfast!
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REVIEWS
"If you have been following the escapades of the Kerr family in Mallorca, you'll just have to read this to find out why they eventually left."
Goodreads.com
"It's all light-hearted stuff, and Peter pokes gentle fun not
only at the locals
but also himself".
Daily Telegraph
"Full of comic shenanigans but tinged with
sadness".
Spain magazine
"A brilliantly observed account of a Scottish family's transition
from a Mallorcan
finca (farm) back to Scotland. The Mallorcan episodes are a joy. Read
this one ...
I recommend the experience. Thoroughly."
The Scots Magazine
"With his vivid descriptions of life on a small but idyllic orange
farm, his books have done for Mallorca what A Year In Provence did for
France. He lovingly contributes to the richness of the island (and)
Kerr's trademark humour is still there."
H! Society Magazine
"Packed with more highs and lows than any of the other books in the series ... we share, once again, the amazing fortitude of all the family."
Bookworld Espana
© Peter Kerr 2006
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