Vanessa Osborne Art

Once again time has stealthily slipped passed me and here I find myself once again at the keyboard and dreaming about France! So here we go on Part 2 of the French Art School adventure. A very short recap – we landed in Paris and did a week’s worth of sightseeing in two days. I was feeling a bit worse for wear after the previous day’s endeavors and indulgences and had to lay low for a bit to recover to prepare for the train journey from Gare d’Austerlitz to Châteauroux and then on to the gorgeous little hamlet of La Forêt-du-Temple where I would be spending 10 days in pure arty bliss! After meeting up with some of the other adventurers, we made our way to Gare d’Austerlitz in a shuttle van. The station was under renovation – I guess in preparation for the Paris Olympics. Further evidence of this was seen while walking through the streets of Paris and passing parked vans with fully equipped police who were sitting in wait of goodness knows what! While we waited for the train, we bought ...

  Ooh La La - French Art School - Part 1 Bonjour one and all! It has been way too long between blog posts, and mostly because my original post started out more like a lengthy essay, rather than a quick account of my trip to France. And let’s be honest, I want to savor these memories, not rush them! So here we have the first instalment of the journey of a lifetime! I had been counting down for months and finally the time arrived to start the journey to French Art School! Travelling with my good friend, Rebekah, helped a great deal, giving me the confidence that I could in fact cope with the prospect of venturing to a foreign country of which I knew next to none of the language; I am quite the inexperienced explorer... The last weeks leading up to it really started to drag on and then all of the sudden it was upon me. It was a frenzy of last minute shopping, packing and repacking, reducing luggage and still having too much! The flight to France from Australia is approximate...