Country Life June 27 2018 looks at clouds, calvados, chickens – and the best places to buy a home in France.
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FRANCE: A celebration of our cousins across the channel, with fine food, beautiful scenery and wonderful property.
CLOUDSPOTTING: A beginners’ guide to deciphering those shapes in the sky.
CALVADOS: The finest way to ‘drink’ an apple, bar none.
BLUEBERRY PANCAKES: Plus blueberry cakes, blueberry muesli… you get the idea.
CARS: VW’s new SUV tested by Charles Rangely-Wilson.
CHAMBORD: The finest chateau in the Loire Valley?
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: The rare-chicken breeder.
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INTERIORS: A kitchen that’s a perfect complement to an Arts-and-Crafts house.
ITCHEN TO CATCH SOMETHING: Our roving angler David Profumo reports back from Hampshire.
LUXURY: Adventurer and globetrotter Charley Boorman is used to roughing it – but that doesn’t mean he has to all the time.
PARSLEY: The potent past of a humble herb.
HEAVEN SCENT: Irises are now being bred for smell as well as cover – Jackie Hobbs explains.
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