I have chosen this title for my book as a kind of homage to the books I read when I was about 15 years old (a long time ago). One was titled The Little World of Don Camillo and was one of a trilogy, the first part published in 1950, a year before I was born. The...
I find – and buy – the home of my dreams Finding Villa Saint- Simon, which was to become our guesthouse, was serendipitous. One minute I was stubbing my toe on a loose Blaye pavement stone, impatient for my friend to complete the negotiation for the purchase of a...
Fish, fowl and the ferry My little world BC (Before Clarissa) first took shape in Blaye with my then-girlfriend Claude. Before that (BCC), it was a year or two of, shall we say, interludes, some involving the odd guest or two at Villa Saint- Simon. All pleasant. All...