Mark Sampson
Born in London and raised in Belfast, Mark Sampson is a writer who has been based in Southwest France since 1995. The family home is an ecological straw-bale house, which has been featured in frequent re-runs of Channel 4's 'Grand Designs Abroad'. The programme showed how ordinary people can fulfil their dreams if sufficiently motivated and determined. He has written for most of the national English papers and writes regularly for Francophile magazines. He also reviews Latin Jazz for 'Songlines...See more
Born in London and raised in Belfast, Mark Sampson is a writer who has been based in Southwest France since 1995. The family home is an ecological straw-bale house, which has been featured in frequent re-runs of Channel 4's 'Grand Designs Abroad'. The programme showed how ordinary people can fulfil their dreams if sufficiently motivated and determined. He has written for most of the national English papers and writes regularly for Francophile magazines. He also reviews Latin Jazz for 'Songlines' magazine. Apart from France's beautiful countryside and the respect for its patrimony, he loves its bewildering paradoxes and infuriating people. See less
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