ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY

To continue on the spring theme, this week-end I was lucky enough to be able to head out with my friends into the fresh air of the countryside south-east of Paris. It was lovely to be out walking in the warm sunshine (look: no gloves!), seeing all the spring flowers growing abundantly wild, trees in bud, watching the bees collecting the pollen (see left, do you realise how hard it is to capture a bee in a photo?) and breathing real air instead of the exhaust-clogged stuff I normally breath. On the other hand, there are other dangers: nearly having a finger bitten off by the curious horse snuffling in my bag for an apple and getting almost completely lost because there are no signs showing you where to go. But it more than made up for losing an hour overnight on Saturday.