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In charming and whimsical detail, Rosanne Knorr shares the delights of life in France's Loire Valley where the climate is mild, the people are hospitable, and the wine is so plentiful it's pumped from vats like a service station for winos.She and her husband, John, with their pate-loving dog, Folly, rejuvenate themselves by trading long work hours, traffic jams, and fast food for art, biking, and goat's cheese direct from the supplier. They garble French but figure out how to earn the best baguettes.Gone with the Wine is not just a delightful story of their life, it also provides fascinating and fresh insights on everyday life, history, and the people of the earthly paradise called the 'Garden of France'. Joyful reading for real-life voyagers and armchair travelers alike!.
About the Author
After a successful career as an advertising copywriter/copy director and owner of a creative advertising boutique, Rosanne began publishing non-fiction, starting with a photographic introduction to Atlanta, "Atlanta Welcome" and the innovative "If I Lived In..." (France, Spain, Germany, Japan) series to help young children discover different languages and cultures.Her love of travel enticed her to "run away from home" to Europe, spending five years in a 150-year-old home where her writing desk overlooked a rock garden, a grape vine, and a distant view overlooking France's Cher River Valley. It was there she wrote "The Grown-Up's Guide to Running Away from Home, " a 'runaway best seller' with reviews in People Magazine, CNN Travel, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, ABC Nightly News, Kiplinger's, among others. Follow-ups included: "The Grown-Up's Guide to Living in France," "The Grown-Up's Guide to Retiring Abroad," and memoir "Gone with the Wine." She also has written the whimsical novel "First You Break an Egg" set--where else? In France.
