This week on the Post we are answering our own question, posed in July 2019: "The allotment. A magic word. Do they exist worldwide?" Certainly they do in other European countries. In France there are potagers (kitchen gardens with a mix of produce and flowers) and jardins ouvriers or jardins familiaux which are closer to allotments. And in some places such as Amiens there are hortillonages, floating gardens created in the Middle Ages from marshland, and accessed by a network of small canals which makes for a fascinating boat trip for visitors.