Four Seasons in a Day: Travel Transitions and Letting Go of the Place We Call Home

Alternately humorous and poignant this inspiring memoir chronicles the authors misadventures as she and her husband cook in quirky kitchens struggle to speak French and shop like locals in outdoor markets. With candor and optimism Deborah Jacobs transports readers from the grape harvest in the Loire Valley to an exuberant chile pepper festival in Basque Country and ultimately to Paris where she witnesses history in the making. En route she does the pintxo bar crawl in San Sebastián Spain develops an affinity for sheeps milk cheese and cultivates new friendships.Four Seasons in a Day an expression used to describe the changeable weather in the Pyrenees also captures the authors extreme resilience. Her grit and determination in the face of every obstacle give us the courage to chart our own course carve out a new life and embrace the unexpected.Those who are thinking of using their home to subsidize foreign travel will find several chapters showing how to do that. Others will whet the reader s appetite to explore the places Jacobs visited. Anyone who has ever fantasized about taking a break from the rat race will want to follow the thread in the style of the 2009 film Julie & Julia of how this life-transforming journey became a book.