Something fishy

LIKe many pensioners, we like to spend the winter in Spain or Portugal. having recently returned home, my wife and I were pleasantly surprised to find we’d lost weight even though we’d been eating well. The reason was that we’d been eating healthily.

Virtually every meal was fish and salad, lots of it; the perfect Mediterranean diet. The obvious conclusion was to eat just as healthily at home. But where do you find the fish?

Supermarket fish counters in Spain are at least four times the size of the ones in our local supermarket. At one in Caceres, about 150 miles from the coast, we found a counter heaving with around 50 varieties of wonderful fresh fish and crustaceans.

The prices were amazingly cheap. We found tuna for less than 6 euros a kilo — in Morrison’s it’s £18 a kilo. There was sea bass, sea bream, salmon, skate, tuna, cod, prawns, langoustines, octopus and hake, to name some I recognised.

I thought being in the eU meant we had access to many of the other 27 nations’ products, just as they have access to ours.

I know our fishing industry has been decimated since we joined the eU and that other nations have been fishing in our waters, but does that mean we can’t have access to their catches? Will leaving the eU help us to eat more healthily? If so, that’s a big bonus! PETER BRIDGHAM, Dereham, Norfolk.