This week on the Post we are either actually on holiday (Jane who usually writes the Post is in Japan amassing 1001 ideas to do with design and culture and music and literature and food) or imagining we are on holiday. So if we go with the imagining, this week we are in a small town in France, courtesy of a Persephone reader who moved there from Somerset five years ago and has been writing 'A Year in France', with marvellous watercolours and aperçus. Isn't this just la France typique? How people who can paint manage it the rest of us simply can't imagine, but somehow a few details and swishes of colour – and we might as well be there.