ECOUTEZ / LISTEN

My father measures holidays in miles. He seems to
find pleasure in the ride itself, taking us anywhere my sister, my mother and
I. He particularly delights in us getting up at dawn in order to then choose
the longest and most tortuous of routes, along small country roads no one ever
dares to take, just as if motorways did not exist. Sometimes I try to follow on
the map the route he seems to have entirely memorised , most of the time I soon
give up. I switch on my MP3 player and close my eyes, half asleep, to only
intermittently open them, each time to discover a new and unknown landscape.