Jean Moulin museum

The Jean Moulin museum at Bordeaux is dedicated to the resistance movement of the second world war. This museum is full of wartime memorabilia: helmets, uniforms, flags, bikes and motorcycles, photos and posters. Such posters exhort the French to do their duty and return to work. One poster warns them to turn in any English person or risk being shot!.

There are sad stories of bravery, like of the young man, Labat, who at 20 had joined the Resistance, escaped to England and was trained in codes and radio. He made a couple of successful forays back to France. IN 1942, he was parachuted in with radio transmitter equipment when he was caught and arrested. As the opened his bag containing the radio transmitter, he made his escape, shooting six Germans on the way. When he was trapped he took cyanide and died. How brave. How proud his father might have been. How sad his mother must have been.

Dull Sunday afternoon

We took the Austrian girls for a picnic in Wendover woods, where all the world and his friends were, so there weren't any barbecues left for us to use. We got out our picnic blankets and had a picnic on the salad and buns and crisps and apples and home made apple cake. We just didn't have a barbecue. It didn't rain.

Then we visited Tring museum, admired the stuffed bear, gorillas, foxes, dogs, ate icecreams and came back in the dull light of not-quite-raining.

Everyone must be back from their two week summer break, ready to get the children back to school on Thursday at the start of September (after the teachers have had their inset days), so the museum was heaving with children - I've never seen it so busy. The first time we went there in 1999 or 2000, it was so quiet you'd have thought any noise was a ghost.

Woods and museum full of people. But there were very few at tae kwon do.