Crumbs! What a cake that was... (See what I did there?)

I’d never been to the Pyrenees before - what a treat it was! On my second trip for Go Slow France, I flew into Perpignan, hired a car, then drove inland, after an hour or so beginning to climb. It was hard keeping my eyes on the road as the views unfolded, bend after bend. I stayed at 1500m above sea level, in a Gite d’Etape on the coast-to-coast hiking route.

It's caws. And I know this because...? I know this because I visited the dairy at Rhyd y Delyn Farm on Anglesey, where Menai Jones and her family make a range of really wonderful cheeses, including a camembert style, and one with samphire, which gives the green flecks you can see in one of the pictures I took. As you drive into the farm, there are the cows/caws whose milk makes the cheese, grazing all around you, or chewing the cud contentedly under the big, spreading trees. Menai and her daughter Elin are pictured here, in the spotless dairy.

I've been having a housekeeping week, doing some sorting out of files, labelling them properly  and backing them up carefully, after my recent horror of a crashed disk. Well - I've been trying to! It's so easy to get distracted, such as when I found a collection of pictures I took a few years ago at the vegetable market in Cannes, and found myself going through them and doing some editing and organising. Vegetables can be beautiful, huh? Oh - I see there's some non-veggie oysters there too.