HEN SELF-PROFESSED city girl Esther Palmer met her now-husband Andrew in Basel, Switzerland in 2002, she was unaware of his long-held dream of owning a farm. “He also wanted a vineyard – which, too, was something I found out later!” she says. Tasmanian-born Andrew ran a health economics business in the Swiss city, while German-born Esther was living on the other side of the Rhine River in the border town of
