Rain

a stay at home day
but we didn't mind the rain
we just read and talked

I borrowed a book from my parents' library: Sur les chemins noirs (Following the black trails) by Sylvain Tesson, an author I like because he writes about travelling and extreme experiences (he once stayed for six months by a Siberian lake, on his own). This book describes how he walked across France in a diagonal from the Italian border to the Cotentin (in Normandy) after suffering an accident in which he had broken many bones including his skull.

I read it in the course of the day (well, except for two pages I read on Sunday morning). I have now borrowed and brought back home another one, by genetics specialist Axel Kahn. It tells of his walk following the other diagonal, from the Ardennes in the north-east of France to the Basque country in the south-west. Actually, Kahn also walked from the north-west to the south-east, but my parents didn't have that book.