Where to start? I am sitting in the kitchen of our recently purchased French house, drinking ice cold rosé wine to the strains of an old Simon and Garfunkel album, whilst watching my incredibly beautiful wife heat up a take-away seafood paella. I could have bought take-away moules marinière, bouillabaisse, home-made fish soup, or even zarzuela (a traditional Catalan seafood stew) from the Poissonnerie in the nearby town of Lézignan-Corbières on our way home from the Lac de Taurize where my family spent the day swimming, jumping twenty feet off the rocks and drying off in the blazing August sunshine.