I saw a lovely house to sketch in Veere, Holland and sat down on the grass and produced this.

Whilst sketching some tourists walked by, saw me drawing and actually went over to this house, peered in the windows, and tried to see what was so ’special’ about it !!!!! Goodness knows what the lady who lived there thought about people looking in her windows at her!!

My next sketch was on the platform at Zaandam Station, waiting for the train to Amsterdam. We had 10 minutes so I sat on a bench and did this quick sketch of graffiti on a wall - not the usual holiday sketch - and I suppose I could be accused of copying someone else’s ‘artwork’?

Boulogne Sur Mer was a pleasant surprise. It was so clean, calm and full of old world charm. We paid homage to the statue of San Martin, El Libertador de America which was bathed in sunshine. This bronze statue, on a stone base, showed signs of having witnessed a battle in WWII. Robin pointed out some bullet holes in the bronze as well as shrapnel damage to parts of the figure. We managed to stand with our backs to the beach and sight through a bullet hole towards the old defensive pillboxes high up on the cliffs. Obviously San Martin was present at modern as well as historical battles! And shortly after seeing the statue we saw many marching bands go by as part of the national competition. A lovely experience.

The view from our hotel room was across a tree to the dome of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and this was too tempting not to sketch whilst waiting for Robin to have a shower. This was also the only day in the whole week that it rained. We were very lucky with the weather.

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