Mouthwatering facts about revered Darwin’s dining habits

It is certainly spring here in Ibiza and I have a difficult choice to make, whether to write about this Balearic island’s crowded history or the beauty of its wild and cultivated flora, now all coming into bloom. Also, I’d like to relate some intriguing facts I’ve unearthed about history’s most revered naturalist.

First, I must try to describe the emblematic almond blossom of this island, now dressing the trees in shades of white, pinkish and vivid pink and, in places, blanketing whole valleys which, from a hillside above, one might think, but for the warm air and strong sun, is an Alpine valley filled with snow.