When torrential rain falls on Carcassonne’s Place Carnot, shoppers at the Saturday market keep going. I buy both green and white asparagus, then artichokes and ewe’s milk cheese from the Pyrenees, keeping my head dry under the canvas canopies while the rainwater splatters my ankles.
30 May 2019, The Tablet
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