It didn’t take long for the heatwave to bring out the nation’s puritans in force. Police, we learn, have told people ‘not to try to cool off in rivers and lakes’. Local authorities, too, have been busily erecting signs forbidding river bathing, attempting to put an end to a centuries-old practice: 1930s photographs show the
Nr Pézenas, L’Hérault The British who reach here – the Midi – from the pas de Calais through la France profonde at this time of the year think of the history through which they drive as cathedrals, abbeys and ch
What is the view of the Andrew Gilligan affair at the Frog and Firkin? It is some time since I have been down to the Frog, but I feel I know its ways so well that I can be pretty sure what they are thinking. Most of its denizens are stuck somewhere between boredom and
