Carol Drinkwater

Provence off the beaten track offers silence, stillness, sweet scents, eagles, chestnuts, endless avenues shaded by plane trees, fabulous walking, cycle tracks…

— Carol Drinkwater

Pink was my mother's favourite colour. Since her passing four years ago, I have envisaged an almond grove with thick clusters of…

— Carol Drinkwater

Originally developed in Germany in the 18th Century, ice wine is made from grapes that have been left on the vines until…

— Carol Drinkwater

All olives ripen green, then change to rose, shades of purple, and black. According to region, this process takes about four months…

— Carol Drinkwater

“How many worlds make up a life!”

— Carol Drinkwater

Despite trying to keep luggage to minimum, I do like to have all my cleansers and my hair and nail things to…

— Carol Drinkwater

By the beginning of the 20th Century, Cannes and the coastal strip that winds its rocky way to Monaco was the winter…

— Carol Drinkwater

Property in Provence can cost a fortune if you don't know where to look and a glass of champagne sipped on the…

— Carol Drinkwater

It was Captain Cook who christened the Whitsunday Islands while sailing past them in 1770 on what he mistakenly believed was Whitsunday.…

— Carol Drinkwater

Biarritz is world-famous for its surfing. The waves roll high and wild and surfers cross the planet to pit their skills against…

— Carol Drinkwater

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never…

— Carol Drinkwater

The Whitsundays are a sailor's paradise and because they sit at the southern limit of one of the seven natural wonders of…

— Carol Drinkwater

Until half a century ago, the Maures slopes had been silvery with olive trees, but in 1956 disaster struck. February frosts dropped…

— Carol Drinkwater

Jerusalem sits on a hill surrounded by valleys. It is a dry, craggy region but ideal for olive trees, which require minimal…

— Carol Drinkwater

I have discovered France's best-kept secret. Reunion is an island of some 970 square miles situated in the Indian Ocean south-west of…

— Carol Drinkwater

Personal loss is a trial that we all face. Like every negative challenge we rise to it or we don't. You grow…

— Carol Drinkwater

Gethsemane - the word is Hebrew for olive press - is just across the valley from Kidron, which in turn is a…

— Carol Drinkwater

I use my American Express card whenever possible because I earn Air France points, which have taken me to America in business…

— Carol Drinkwater

For many of us, lavender's deep colour and its unforgettable fragrance encapsulate the heady joys of Provence.

— Carol Drinkwater

Tizi-Ouzou is the capital of Kabylia and makes an excellent base from which to explore these culturally untapped and very beautiful mountains.…

— Carol Drinkwater

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,…

— Carol Drinkwater