Amusing article in the Times with Peter Mayle, discussing life in Provence and generally promoting A Good Year (the one directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe). Here's some nuggets:
* “Russell Crowe seemed an odd choice,” (Mayle) admits. “I thought more Hugh Grant. Russell normally has very macho parts slicing people’s heads off ’s Gladiator. But in this film there is no rape or disembowelment; the most violent movement is pulling a cork from a bottle.”
* "The countryside (in Provence) is so ravishing it was just a point and squirt job"
"“London is now very edgy, but who wants that? Whenever I come back I find it noisier, dirtier and more ethnically mixed.” (We can all relate to this.)
* Other than writing, drinking and observing, his days are spent tending to his 200 olive trees: “We farm them at an exorbitant cost. It would be cheaper to fly the olives over from Fortnum’s.” (Having 300 myself, I empathise fully).
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