Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Live blogging from the café...
We're sitting at the Café de Paris while one of the tyres is being mended. We found a screw embedded in one of the back tyres this morning!
Would you like to join us in a nice cup of coffee?
This bar/café is very popular with the rugby crowd, as you can see in the last photo. The French are fanatical about rugby. This is the local team:
The café also caters for horse race betting:
There are three cafés in our village and this one is the friendliest. It's also open everyday, unlike the others. One of the most important features of the Café de Paris is the wi-fi, otherwise I wouldn't be able to blog on the go!
I hope you enjoyed this visit to one of our local haunts. À bientôt!
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France
Monday, 8 December 2014
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Historical photographs
Mrsgunka sent us a very large collection of rare old photographs. There are too many for a single post, so I decided to divide them into categories and spread them over several posts. Thank you, MrsG.
Here are the photos in the category "First and Last."
Here are the photos in the category "First and Last."
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| The back of the Hoover Dam just before it was submerged and never seen again. [1936] |
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View from the top on the opening day of the Empire State Building. [1931] |
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| The very first Rockefeller Christmas Tree is revealed to the public. [1931] |
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| Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge moments after it opened seen from atop one of the arches. [1937] |
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| Crowds flock to the first World Series Game in New York. [1912] |
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| The first ever underground train journey. Edgware Road Station, London. [1862] |
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| Norway receive their first ever shipment of bananas. [1905] |
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| Three men run in the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games. [1896] |
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| The last few prisoners of Alcatraz leave as the prison is shut down for good. [1963] |
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| Race organisers attempt to stop Kathrine Switzer from competing in the Boston Marathon. She became the first woman to finish the race. [1967] |
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| The last known photo of the Titanic above water. [1912] |
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| The iceberg that is thought to have sunk the Titanic. Black and red paint is smeared along the side. [1912] |
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| The traffic jam at the Brandenburg Gate as East and West Germans cross freely on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall. [November, 1989] |
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Porcelaine de Limoges
When Peter and I go to Limoges airport, we always have a look at the display cabinets dotted around the place. Limoges is famous for their porcelaine, which can be extremely traditional. I tend to be attracted to modern designs, as traditional French anything usually translates into very over-the-top fussy! Here are a couple of examples:
Labels:
France
Friday, 5 December 2014
Beautiful photo collages
Istanbul based artist Merve Özaslan creates collages using vintage photographs and photos of nature. The results are quite interesting. The artist is also quite beautiful...
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photos
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