Mountain driving

For the last few days we've been driving though gorgeous mountains: the departements of la Drome and Hautes-Alpes. The scenery is just getting better and better and the air is like velvet here. Not at all like that shit that passes for air in polluted London. And of course it didn't need to be that way in the capital. Ken Livingstone - for all his faults - wanted to implement a clean air strategy 10 years ago.  But then we had Boris as mayor for 8 years - and we all know what he did about air pollution. Whatever. We're making the best of the clean air - and my asthma is currently in remission. Great!

On the mountain roads we saw lots of fast-flowing rivers and people bathing or paddling in them. Marilena thought they looked most appealing and nothing would do but she had to have her own paddle in a mountain stream Happily we soon found one, pulled over and we had a paddle-a-deux in the bright sunshine. Herself was well pleased.