It's been a while...largely due to me scribbling like crazy to finish my manuscript for my MA in Writing for children. So my post will be short and sweet but long enough to be able to share my new photos with you.
But before that- a piece of news.
My new card business called Kidogo Cards is now on Not On The High Street. (Incidentally my husband's furniture is there too...so I'm taking this opportunity to plug his work...very beautiful- do have a look!) Anyway, you can order any card from my online shop or ask me to personalise the greeting on the front. Alternatively do keep popping back to my own site Kirsten Wheeler Photography where all my latest photos will be uploaded and available as cards, prints and canvases. Do email me if you can't find what you are looking for.
So...back to our beloved France for a summer break. This time to the beautiful Lot region in the South West.
We had a morning paddle in the warm, shallow waters of the Cele river which was fringed with fig and walnut trees. Then pottered past villages,which looked like they were straight out of a fairy tale. Renaissance houses built in the medieval style, old cottages which looked like they were made from gingerbread and old abandoned barns with open granaries gaping from the top floor.
We were heading for Grande Brocante in the old market town of Figeac, where the town's houses cluster around the 9th century abbey.
The streets were bursting with an eclectic mixture of people and stuff. Antique memorabilia neatly arranged on lace tablecloths and old junk casually chucked in rusty cake tins.
Old women, glasses perched on the end of their nose, notebook in hand, wove in and out of the stalls, past the headless dolls and plastic smurfs towards the antiques and collectibles.
What did we buy? An old set of well worn copper pans in need of a very good clean. Ideal for cooking a cassoulet for our supper with all the yummy french produce we had bought from the food market.
