GEORGE EAST is the guru of French Living and French Property owning. If anyone should know his onions about France and the French, it’s George. After moving with his wife Donella to a ruined water mill on ten acres of rivers, woods, meadows and mud in Normandy, George wrote a best-selling series of books about trying to live off the land and their wits.
The couple then left the Mill of the Flea and moved on to an allegedly haunted manor-house on the vast Lower Normandy marshlands. Their next home was a rambling farmhouse half way up what counts as a mountain in Brittany.
Since then, the Easts have visited or stayed in every one of France’s 90-odd departments and 22 regions. Writing books and contributing to magazines, websites and TV and radio programmes, George has become a well-known commentator on what goes on across the Channel.
This is a compendium of his blogs and photographs and traditional recipes collected by Donella. Although principally about their time in the land of Donella’s ancestors, The Brittany Blogs is also about France and the French, and why for centuries we have been fascinated and frustrated by what we often see as the funny little ways of our nearest Continental neighbours.
The couple then left the Mill of the Flea and moved on to an allegedly haunted manor-house on the vast Lower Normandy marshlands. Their next home was a rambling farmhouse half way up what counts as a mountain in Brittany.
Since then, the Easts have visited or stayed in every one of France’s 90-odd departments and 22 regions. Writing books and contributing to magazines, websites and TV and radio programmes, George has become a well-known commentator on what goes on across the Channel.
This is a compendium of his blogs and photographs and traditional recipes collected by Donella. Although principally about their time in the land of Donella’s ancestors, The Brittany Blogs is also about France and the French, and why for centuries we have been fascinated and frustrated by what we often see as the funny little ways of our nearest Continental neighbours.
