If you recognise the header of this post you would be right in thinking it’s the title of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh – painted in 1888.  I’ve added a link to it below so you can remind yourself of it or view it for the first time.

Entrance to the Public Park in Arles 
Oil on canvas 72.5 x 91.0 cm. Arles: September, 1888
Washington: The Phillips Collection

I travelled to the South of France several times by car from the UK in the 90s, to visit my son and his family who were living there at the time. We made a trip to Arles, and I sat in the entrance way sketching a figure reminiscent of one of those featured in Van Gogh’s paintings in that same spot all those years ago. He’s wearing attire similar to the familiar clothes and hat of Van Gogh himself…..not much had changed in all that time.