A day out with Carla Bruni and the Dalai Lama

Another weekend back in the Cévennes, thanks to Carla Bruni, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama. The Lerab Ling sanctuary, home of Europe's biggest Tibetan temple, is on the edge of the high Larzac plain, just across the hills from here. It was there that Sarko despatched his supermodel wife to meet the Dalai Lama. We tagged along to what was one of the more exotic events of the Sarkozy reign so far -- a mixture... [read full story]