i’m back from nearly three weeks holiday in france. i love france – we stayed down in moliets on the west coast between biarritz and bordeaux. it’s a beautiful coast and because it’s the atlantic there are always waves rolling in. the combination of sea, sun, surf, and french food and drink is perfect holiday combination. i read some wonderful books which i’ll get round to enthusing about at some point no doubt. i have managed not to blog for three weeks which is quite an achievement for me (all the posts that have gone up i wrote in advance in case you wondered which is why i haven’t responded to any comments – thanks for them though…)

last year on the way back we stayed in chartres to visit the labyrinth but were disappointed to discover that the chairs are only removed on a friday. well this year we realised as we were driving back that we were passing chartres and had enough time to stop in and visit and it was a friday… so we finally got to walk the labyrinth which was a wonderful experience although it was pretty crowded. the photo here i took with a long exposure time and it produced this sort of shimmering effect where people walked by almost like invisible presences. there is such a sense of history as you walk the path that you are treading where so many pilgrims have walked over the centuries.

back to work tomorrow, greenbelt next weekend to look forward to, so it will be a week before i get back properly into the blogging habit. being away for three weeks you also feel like you’ve dropped out of the conversation so i have some catching up to do. if you’ve e-mailed me and i haven’t replied (especially some of you coming to greenbelt) now you know why…