South of France book series

Discover the inspiring, true story behind our journey from a small English town to the French Riviera

Cookham to Cannes is my first book about the time my wife and I have spent in France since leaving the UK in 2010. I share with you our personal journey through the south and south-west of France having arrived with very little money but, nonetheless, full of hope and expectation.
Having driven off the ferry in Calais one drizzly afternoon in February, we could not have imagined in our wildest dreams what direction our future was about to take.
It wasn't long before we began to discover that nothing in the south of France was as it seemed. Catapulting ourselves from one adventure to the next this is our true yet incredible story....

Continue to enjoy the incredible journey with Brent, Debbie and their dog, Guss, in the south of France

The madness continues in the south of France along with my wife, Debbie, and our dog, Guss who is as baffled at what happens to us as everyone else.
Things don't improve as in the early hours of one morning, Brent finds himself in the middle of a lawn with nothing to protect his dignity but a mop. As lights flashed from all corners and with a villa full of rental guests, would he have to explain himself or had he managed to get away with it?
Just managing to slip the grasp of one mentally deranged employer, we set about finding someone to work for who had at least a modicum of sanity. As you’re about to discover, that was not going to be an easy task.