Frencholic: reality behind the french dream - Paperback
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France is beautiful. Until you live there.
In Frencholic, Arnold Verhoeven leaves the Netherlands behind and settles on the French Riviera, drawn by the promise of a life bathed in sun, elegance and effortless charm. What he finds is something entirely different.
As a hotelier and observer, Verhoeven is drawn into a world where appearances rarely match reality. Beneath the polished surface of the Riviera lies a landscape of contradictions: warmth and hostility, beauty and absurdity, freedom and rigid systems that resist change.
With a sharp eye and understated humour, he captures the moments that reveal what life in France truly feels like - not as a visitor, but as an outsider trying to belong.
This is not a travel guide, nor a romanticised portrait.
It is a personal account of navigating a culture that fascinates and frustrates in equal measure.
Frencholic is a story about expectation versus reality, about adapting or resisting, and about what remains when the dream of France meets real life.
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