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The humble banana, a hangover from our globalisation years?
At home As I searched for my weekly shop of fruit and vegetables at a small local farmer’s market this week, I was suddenly struck with the lack of bananas on the stalls. Usually I pick them up with the supermarket shop. One of my son eats them almost daily. But on reflection, it’s obvious…
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Saint Antonin Noble Val 82140
Love at first sight As you drive south along the D5 from the small village of Septfonds, you finally reach the “Gorges d’Aveyron”. It is a place that catches my breath each time, even now twenty years on. In the winter months the valley is shrouded in a morning mist, but in the summer the…