A Year In Provence With Carol Drinkwater

Carol shares her love of Provence in the South of France where she’s lived for the last 35 years with her husband, Michel. We find that it was love at first sight for the couple.

Carol visits her neighbour, professional beekeeper Jean-Marc. After losing her own bees to deadly Asian hornets, Carol hopes to keep hives on her land again in the future.

Carol and Michel appreciate family values with their nephew Marvin as they use his skills to conduct an experiment with music to encourage the plants to grow.

Carol reveals some of the sources of inspiration that feed her writing, and she’s inspired to pursue her latest idea for a zesty new novel and heads to Menton.

Carol makes a trip to Grasse, the perfume capital of France, where she handpicks sweet and delicate jasmine flowers to create her own Appassionata fragrance.

Carol visits the wilds of Camargue at harvest time, seeing the birds and horses that roam free before returning home to bring in the year's olive harvest.