We made it to France – in spite of all the difficulties, the requirement to quarantine, the forms that have to be filled up, the need to show that we’ve been double vaccinated, we travelled in trepidation, amongst relatively few who are likewise brave or foolish, through the tunnel into the wide open spaces of Picardy, lunch in Laon, down to Beaune: it felt how it was pre-EU, an adventure, full of unknowns and uncertainty. But we’ve survived so far.