It's about time areas catered for the kind of tourists they want

As I just wrote to friends living on a Mediterranean island: “It’s been summer here for the last few weeks, wonderful weather, 18C to 20C, but everything is very green or flowery, all the whitethorns in bloom and a procession of wildflowers in the ditches and on the old stone wall, mixes of colours and forms and vegetable constructions to take the breath away.

"One won’t find a square metre without plant life — extraordinary! So, it’s a lovely spring, but what a pity its future is under threat.”