How a balloon flight over the Pyrenees cured my mother’s fear of flying

What, for her 77th birthday, do you give a woman who has everything? I do not mean that my mother is rich or lives in luxury, but that though we, her six children, have all our lives been the recipients of birthday gifts lovingly chosen by her – she never fails to think of something useful or touching – it has never been easy to think, when her own birthday comes around, of what you can give someone who has all the possessions she wants.