I suspect there's a mentality that rural living should be banned for everyone apart from holiday homes for the rich and a servile class of agricultural labourers on modern latifundia. (View Post)

The irony being that it wasn't the policy decisions which brought Boris down but his personal lack of self-discipline. (View Post)

It certainly was for LBJ. (View Post)

So its part of southern France which you think looks like northern France ? My first reaction at looking at that picture was that it was southern France. It has a 'Jean de Florette' look to… (View Post)

I've heard it said that every European country has a grey and green North where the industry and wet weather is and a yellow and brown South where the beaches and vineyards are. (View Post)