http://www.rosemarybailey.com Rosemary's weblog Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:47:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am delighted to announce the paperback publication of Love and War in the Pyrenees. It has a splendid new cover, as background the sumptuously coloured Catalan fabric made in St Laurent de Cerdans, the village that first inspired the book. Author Kate Mosse has graced it with a ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=608 Bronte Country. Haworth Cemetery. Returning to Yorkshire last week, the names began to reverberate from distant memory; Hebden Bridge, Wensleydale, Ilkley Moor, Whitby. I could hear my father’s long Northern vowels again, and recall his ringing sermons. From Hell, Hull and Halifax…” was a great joke between Walter and his ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=593   Click here for the sound of trumpets. Only joking. I can barely remember how to upload a photo let alone design in musical accompaniment. Anyway I am very proud to announce two awards. Two! The British Guild of Travel Writers- a very prestigious organisation, naturellement- voted my new book, Love ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=586 A double rainbow - just what we all need right now..... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=568 I recently went on a press trip to the Champagne-Ardennes region of France, a combination of champagne and cemeteries which was better than it sounds. The champagne was excellent, a welcome respite after the various war sites we visited, from both First and Second World Wars. The entire region has ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=527 I recently drove up to St Laurent de Cerdans, the small village in the Pyrenees near the frontier with Spain, to visit the little local museum again. It was there I first began to think about the war in this region, back in 1994 on a first visit with my ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=518 The last days of summer. Everyone seems to have left. The rentrée is upon us, the shops full of school satchels and pens. My son has bought himself a new French agenda, diary, out of habit, though now he will be going to an English school. The difference will be ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=511 Welcome to my newly updated website. We are still working on it so feel free to comment or criticise. As you can see I have a new book out, which is my main pre-occupation at the moment. (Well along with my sick mother, my son awaiting GCSE results, a travel ... http://www.rosemarybailey.com/?p=424