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    To Prussia with Love: Misadventures in Rural East Germany

    By Roger Boyes

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    Farce meets romance in this amusing travel memoir set in East Germany In a desperate attempt to save his relationship with girlfriend Lena and take a break from the world of journalism, Roger Boyes agrees to make a great escape from the easy urban lifestyle of Berlin and decamp to the countryside. He has hopes for Italy, but Lena has inherited a run-down old manor in the deepest, darkest area of Brandenburg. Needing a form of income, they decide to set up a bed and breakfast with a British theme. Enter unhelpful Harry and his Trinidadian chef cousin, a mad Scotsman to advise them on rebranding Brandenburg, some suicidal frogs, and a posse of mad tourists. It all culminates in a cricket match between the British and the Germans on an old Russian minefield.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781848399563
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    To Prussia with Love: Misadventures in Rural East Germany
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    Roger Boyes

    Roger Boyes is an awardwinning correspondent, having covered Western and Eastern Europe for the past thirty years for the Financial Times and the Times of London. He has been reporting from Iceland since he was sent on his first foreign assignment to cover the Cod War in 1976. He lives in Berlin.

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    • 5/5
      British journalist has mid-life crisis in Berlin turns cultural attache in the Prussian countryside. Runs riot with diplomatic faux, spawn and umpires. Totally political incorrect. Absolutely hilarious.
    • 2/5
      Tries too hard to be funny