Aasta provence'is

Whether it is called a travelogue or a fictional diary, between its covers is a glimpse of the writer's year spent in France.

With pleasant humor, the author talks about the people of Provence, customs, nature, French cuisine and French bureaucracy, as well as the tourists who flock to Provence when the weather warms up, including the bathing Germans arriving from England, and their ambitions.

Mayle also talks about serious problems in a pleasant style, occasionally seasoning it with healing self-irony.