Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of France with

Simon Constable writing for Forbes and Barrenson Wall Street Journal and also making sure the roof doesn't leak too much under a torrent of rain settling on Paradise at the same time.

Simon is published positive information, although there's a warning here, about coffee.

Simon, coffee is an American drink, it's a European continental drink.

To my knowledge, it's made inroads in the United Kingdom but tea is

preferred your item however in Forbes identifies no matter where you are how how you drink coffee. The prices are going up. Why? What's happened?

This is absolutely fascinating to me. I mean everything in commodities goes in cycles.

I had a look on the US Department of Agriculture's

database to look at the basically the supply demand balanced for coffee across the world and there are basically two big places to look at but I looked at the whole amount and the two big places where they've had problems growing have been Brazil and Vietnam.

Now different types of coffee tend to be grown in those places,

but they have both come across the same problem,

which is viruses, diseases that don't really help with the growing situation and so the crops are lower and new trees have to be grown and the rest of it.

And then when you take that with reference to what's going on with the supply and demand balance,

you see something, that means it's near impossible for the price not to go up.

Now that the record price for coffee was around $3.11 a pound and that was set in March 1977.

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