Lavender, Dormice and a Donkey Named Mercedes: A Decade of Expat Living on Hvar

By Paul Bradbury

As the sun-filled, celebrity-drenched premier island of Croatia, Hvar needs no introduction, but what is it like to live there as a foreigner? All year? For ten years?Swapping the Manchester rain of birth via the humanitarian aid world of Somalia, a chance finger-pointing excercise in Sarajevo brings the well-travelled author to a life of Hvar domesticity much different to the tourist brochures. A culture of moving vegetables, where the olive conversation is king, and the finest wines and rakijas are served in the most plastic of bottles, and whose most popular festival celebrates the edible dormouse.Written with love, admiration, warmth and humour, Lavender, Dormice and a Donkey Named Mercedes is one Englishman's portrayal of a totally different life on a tourist island on the Adriatic, where the property mafia are not that scary, the rakija and wild boar unavoidable, and whose nature seeps into the skin of even the most hardened city boy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493656279
• ISBN13: 9781493656271
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"