Back to blue skies today - seemed a shame to spend much of it indoors but this weekend there were places to go people to see.
Parisot, a neighbouring village, is a small place but thinks big - it has a huge summer festival by the lake, super fireworks display in August, an art festival every summer and this year sees it's second literary festival:
http://www.festilitt.com/
The festival has a mix of French and English speaking authors giving presentations and talks over the weekend and a huge second hand book sale. This morning I went to hear Vanessa Couchman, who lives locally, talk about her newly published first novel The House at Zaronza and this afternoon it was back to hear Amanda Hodgkinson, who also lives in southwest France, on her second novel Spilt Milk. Both sound like good reads and together with the pile of 1 euro goodies from the book sale I've got another shelf of reading matter for the winter months - in fact the sun is still shining I think I'll go outside and make a start now.
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