Last Friday I took my first vaulting lesson with the university’s riding club. The equestrian club we had booked the lesson with specialises in vaulting and it is quite far from Nottingham, in Warwickshire, 1 1/2 hour by car. I hadn’t been to Warwickshire before. It’s a beautiful area, whose flora is similar to the Cretan one -except for asparangus, which is not produced in Crete. It’s just so different from Nottinghamshire, which is colder, wetter, and more windy, as a result of the height of its location. I could never imagine myself getting a sunburn in Britain, but yes, it happened to me in Warwick. When we finally got…