Mon Carnet de Voyage

A Carnet de Voyage, is the original travel diary - it dates back to the 13th century, to Villard de Honnecourt, who left behind 250 acrhitectual drawings of cathedrals and in later years, explorations to the New World detailed the age of discovery in Carnets de Voyage.

It combines two essential ingredients - they always contain descriptive text and they have illustrations. That said, I will be taking photos in lieu of drawing, as all I can really muster is a bad stick figure, or something that you might not realise is "upside down Miss Jane".

Whilst this might just sound like a blog, or a travel diary...the essence of a true Carnet de Voyage allows you to see the journey taking place within the author themselves, and I pretty much envisage that going to work as a fellow at the Biblioteque Nationale de France for three months might herald a significant journey within myself - given that I love libraries (this is my long-term career choice), I love Paris and have always wanted to live there, I have spoken French since I was 11, and I am also a writer, currently working on a novel exploring the shared explorative history of France and Australia.

So here goes...