Travels with a donkey.Foreign-language movie titles are typically made less interesting and more vanilla when they’re translated into English, but that is very much not the case with Caroline Vignal’s “Antoinette in the Cévennes” - or as it’s being released in the United States: “My Donkey, My Lover & I.” Each title proves accurate in its own way, but the American one does a better job of capturing the sardonic flavor of this mid-summer trifle about a sweetly pathetic school teacher (the wonderful “Call My Agent” star Laure Calamy) who rides an ass named Patrick across south-central France in pursuit of the man she loves.Climate change denying Trolls are still at it desp.Jean du Gard RLS was sad to see her go when he sold her and described her thus. Don't overload her, don't creep up on her from behind especially when she is eating corn, don't try to stroke her face her shoulder or neck are are preferable.Īt the end of their trek in St.
In 2020 a hired donkey should, I hope be more amenable as long as the donkey driver follows some basic rules.
RLS cursed Modestine roundly every day and he goaded her with a stick she was too slow and stubborn, he didn't realise that she was on heat for at least part of the time. I just like the idea of an asinine companion. We don't really need one, we travel light and unarmed, overnight baggage can go by courier van to the next stopover. Modestine was his essential pack animal because he didn't travel light his heavy extra large sleepingīag was made of sheepskins, he took wine, brandy, a leg of mutton and a revolver he really needed a donkey. "Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes", written in 1879 was one of his first outdoor books, an account of his 120 mile walk with the donkey Modestine from Le Puy to St. He may be less well known as a pioneer travel and outdoor writer. Robert Louis Stevenson is perhaps most famous for his novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped. Thoughts turn to summer 2020, France and a walking holiday but this time with a difference.I want to take donkey.Ī long walk in the Pyrenees without a donkey It's been unusually dry for three weeks, at a time when we are normally deluged., the sun is shining in a cloudless sky and it's 4 degrees outside. It's the 14th November and already this month I have filled the water butt with a hosepipe for the livestock three times. Sunrise over the Morven Peninsula 15/11/19
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