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Provencal Interlude
A Norwegian birthday as the summer fades
07 October 2012
Elaine walking through the vineyard en route to breakfast
Splatter on rear window of one of our cars
Jorgen Randers reads instructions, maybe
The velo ahead of us emerges on the other side of a tunnel
Legionnaires, one missing part of his leg
Inside the Legionnaires' Museum
Grasses at Mas des Graviers
Goldfish in an exhibit at the Cezanne museum
Jorgen speaks on his new book, '2052'
Jan-Olaf blows out candles
Back to London today by TGV and Eurostar, from Aix-en-Provence, where we had been staying for four days near Jan-Olaf Willum's Mas des Graviers. More on the adventure can be found on Elaine's website, with a link from the homepage of this site.
A glorious time, with some 25 Norwegians, celebrating Jan-Olaf's 66th birthday. Among highlights were trips on a local velotrain (with wagons which two people apiece pedalled), a lunch at a restaurant run by the Foreign Legion, a visit to Aix, and a number of wonderful meals out under the mulberry trees at the Mas.
Among those present was Jorgen Randers, who gave an interesting presentation his new book, 2052, to which I contributed an essay on the future role of the military. I was one of those invited to give a celebratory input at the birthday dinner -- and compared Jan-Olaf with nearby Mont Saint Victoire, which so obsessed Cezanne, whose studio we had just visited in Aix. I said that, like the mountain, Jan-Olaf has been a huge feature in our several landscapes, one which we all journey around, with widely different perspectives upon, but through it all continues to be a hugely powerful influence on us all.
Wrote the latest Guardian Sustainable Business blog on the train back, bringing in a company that Jan-Olaf is involved in, NetJets. Also read part of E.O. Wilson's fascinating new book, The Social Conquest of Earth. Quite remarkably good, but also usefully controversial.
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