It’s been quite a while since I blogged. Apart from having family and friends visit and move to Oxford, I’ve been busier this summer than I usually am.
Busy with writing and busy with researching!
As I type this I am 74,000 words into Ultra Secret New Project. I haven’t written an uncommisioned novel since Jaguar’s Realm (I’m still holding onto that by the way, in case you’re wondering, haven’t decided when the right time is for Jaguar to hit the world…). I remember blogging about the final stages of writing Jaguar’s Realm and this feels a bit like that.
1. Tiring!
2. Someone had better publish this book after all this effort to write it…
3. Drained.
Usually I do all my research trips before I start writing a novel. In the case of Ultra Secret New Project, however, I visited the two foreign locations during the writing itself.
The first location is shown in this photo. At the bottom of the photo you can also see my two Brazilian friends, Ana and Deborah. Loyal travel companions and veterans of an MG Harris research trip, (they’re mentioned in the dedication of Zero Moment), Ana, Deborah, as well as Ali and Kizzie, once again braved foreign lands to scout a location with me.
But where in the world are we?
Prize for the first correct answer in the comments – a Joshua enamel badge and a signed Invisible City postcard.
6 replies on “Where in the world am I now?”
Is it Rocamadour? It certainly looks like it if it isn’t.
It might be…
Anyone else want to take a guess? You have until the end of today!
OK we have a winner, Thomas Taylor, a children’s author, also famously, the illustrator who created the original cover of Harry Potter!
It is indeed Rocamadour.
Well done! Thomas, have you been or do you, like one other reader who emailed me, have a collection of Rocamadour photos on your desktop…?
I’ll email you for an address.
Hurray! I won something:)
I don’t have a collection of Rocamadour photo’s, MG, but I did try to visit the place a couple of years ago with a pushchair. It’s the kind of day you never forget.
Nice cheese though.
Are you still there? If so, have you visited the Gouffre de Padirac, which is nearby? If not, then I can recommend it, if only for the experience of being in a boat over 100m of clear, spotlit water, and seeing the same view below as you can see in the chasm above. It’s like flying. Only underground.
is it Mont st Michel?