Then you can walk down the steps and have a pleasant lunch and justify the second glass of cold Bergerac wine by virtue of having to pedal all the way back to Treyne in time for Champagne cocktails on the patio and one last death-defying inhalation of foie gras.
As with so many useful creations, the lolly was invented by accident when Epperson, a Californian lemonade salesman, left a spoon in a glass of lemonade on a cold night.
Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.