When the kids in the next door tent started doing Susan Boyle impressions, I just wanted it to rain...

Hay - on - Wye

Wow, I think this is the longest gap I've ever taken between blogs! Truth is I've been enjoying a little down time taking a holiday in the South of France with my French family and then camping at the world renowned Hay-on-Wye festival (Hay is known as 'a book town', it's a tiny place population 1900 and has 39 bookshops so that's basically 1 book shop per 48 people!) and I'm off to Dublin tomorrow to see my brand new little niece.

Unfortunately I got a little stomach bug just before getting on the flight back from France which ran over into the beginning of camping and as I'm sure you can all appreciate, stomach bugs + camping is not ideal! Thankfully it didn't last long and I was feeling back to happy normal self by the end of the first evening under canvas although when the kids from the next door tent started doing very loud Susan Boyle impressions ('Britain's Got Talent' contestant) right outside ours, I just wanted it to rain! Thank God it did.

It's good to get away from the computer for a while, I recommend it to everyone! Normal blogging will resume shortly.

Enjoying an ice cream and a paddle @ Cassis (southern France)

This little doggie nose kept appearing under a door in a street in Hay-on Wye, I never saw the full dog

Toulon Market: It's much easier to be healthy when your local market sells food that looks this good!

'Murder and Mayhem' - just one of the 39 bookshops in Hay-on-Wye - a must for any book lover!