Muryel Boulay kindly volunteered and visited Chandlings Manor School in Abingdon on their Food Day (8 June) with a presentation about Bread.

Thank you all for your help and support to open a new Convivium, in fact – to launch Slow Food in Moldova! The Leader held a presentation in Chisinau on 21 June in front of 45 people and more than 20 decided to join Slow Food Moldova. The National Museum for Ethnography and Natural History of Moldova kindly offered their best hall for the event, in a fantastic setting.

We have just spent a magical eight days visiting the Saxon villages of Transylvania. A fascinating area where life moves with the seasons and at the pace of the farm animals in a way that took us back to medieval times. The tour was expertly organised and guided by Jim Turnbull of Adept – a charitable foundation that is working to preserve this wonderful way of life before it is too late.