travel & outdoors: In a deeper vein There's Roquefort in them thar hills. Ray Kershaw gets stuck in

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 19, 1997| Author: Ray Kershaw | Copyright information

The steep round hills gleam with fresh rain. The sun has just shone through and the air is fragrant with the scent of wet grass. Kiri Te Kanawa sets the mood with Songs of the Auvergne on the cassette. We approach like pilgrims. Just over the brow, round a few more twists in the road, is the shrine of the world's patriarchal blue cheese.

With Canteloube still playing, Roquefort is revealed as a single street of workaday buildings clinging like a ledge between the Soulzon river and the...

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