2111“I was travelling with these Australian girls in France and we got a really good crew together for a picnic in Lyon. One of the girls got stung on the thumb by a bee, and you can be allergic to that and have a bad reaction. It was all very dramatic.

”Rang the ambulance, pulled the bee sting out, gave her a shot, whole thing was over in about 10 minutes and she didn’t say a single word. We thought she was in shock. Then she just looked at me dead in the eye and said this.”

Rosie publishes her writing on her blog. Taken in Rotterdam, Holland, during the Travel Bloggers Unite conference.