But it was great to be with our four (grown up) children and, as one customer wrote on Friday afternoon, ‘a change of scenery is as good as a break, as they say.’
With so much going on it was a strange time to be away – we had booked it ages ago – and we didn’t really switch off. We’ve moved all our UK stock in our bonded warehouse into ‘duty paid’ (at vast expense) and we’ve just got back from a family holiday near Begur on the Costa Brava in Spain (not cheap either). It’s fun times at Château Fawlty.Īnd yet everything is fairly hunky dory. UK duty goes up on the 1st August and we’ve seen the worst outbreak of mildew across Bordeaux – but mercifully almost none at Bauduc – that anyone can remember.
