[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-family-holiday-in-provence":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Just a few quick snaps, as I'm herding my parents off to Bath tomorrow for the \u003Cb>Bath Festival of Children's Literature\u003C/b>. Do come along if you're at all in the area! We're having a great panel on \u003Cb>Saturday the 27th\u003C/b> with my publisher David Fickling, John Aggs, the Etherington brothers and me. 12:30-1:30 at the Guildhall, Bath. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bathkidslitfest.co.uk/event_J8.htm\">Details here.\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/prov8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nApologies if you've e-mailed and I haven't responded, I did try! I stopped at an internet cafe in Nice, but the slightly different French keyboard totally threw me, so after five minutes I threw up my hands in despair and went for a glass of pastis.\\r\n\\r\nHere's a sketch I made overlooking the Roman ruins near Van Gogh's hospital: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov1-18a2271ca0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI only did a little drawing this trip, it's tricky with four people. Sometime I'm going to go on a trip by myself, like Craig Thompson, and fill half the sketchbook with amazing sketches and the other half whinging about how lonely I am. And maybe a little time whinging about how my drawings don't look like Thompson's; his \u003Ci>Carnet de Voyage\u003C/i> made me hop with envy. For some odd reason, no one wants to sit on an obscure street corner with me for two hours while I draw... except, perhaps, my sister. We have almost identical attention spans when it comes to drawing. So a sister holiday is definitely on the books.\\r\n\\r\nMy dad really liked the olives, except not to eat. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov2-5f192a1952.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more A few more pics here.-->\\r\nI bought a few too many comics in Avignon and Arles. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov7-29ab68c893.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd we all did a lot of people watching.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov4-50a8adcaf7.jpg\" height=\"400\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov5-1929b9da50.jpg\" height=\"400\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov3-9c98ad81c8.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/prov6-62da5719e7.jpg\">","2008-09-25T22:27:00.000Z","family-holiday-in-provence",[],"family holiday in provence",1776628723631]