Offers an account of an Englishman's life abroad. This book describes among other curiosities, a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher, the quest for the finest bouillabaisse and an assortment of the characters who lie in wait in bars and on boules courts.

A third helping of French country life from the writer of the "A Year In Provence" and "Toujours Provence", who goes in search of the finest bouillabaisse, investigates the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher and goes to a school for noses.