Omigod, you've been to both? Tell more, tell more.....
The light, the red tiles, the creamy walls, the Roman ruins, the dry landscape... the impressionists say it all! You MUST make time to get there if you can tear yourself away from your beloved Italy!
What would you say, Margo?
god,god,god,god,god.
thirsting for a travel abroad :wink:
Hey (pant, pant, catching up) we went to Provence last month and visited Arles and Nimes....and lots more too.
Aix-en-Provence is very nice, we saw the Camargue too, and stayed in Avignon. It was really nice.
Oh no! Have you seen my post on What's Next? You and your force majeure! Everything's conspiring to send me to Provence...
Don't miss the market at Uzes, on a Wednesday or a Saturday, if you can. It is divine.
Ah, ses marchés! Les fromages, les saucissons! Les légumes, les fleurs!
Clary
I'm tentatively looking at Europe some time next year - but I'm having extreme difficulty in making a decision on destinations. There are far too many in the mix.
It may depend on whether my friend Mark decides to come - he wants to go to Italy. Me - add to Italy some France, Ireland, Portugal, Cornwall (and, of course, Sweden and London for friends!)
I want to go to all those places, AND have, oh, four months in italy. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou?
margo wrote:Clary
I'm tentatively looking at Europe some time next year - but I'm having extreme difficulty in making a decision on destinations. There are far too many in the mix.
It may depend on whether my friend Mark decides to come - he wants to go to Italy. Me - add to Italy some France, Ireland, Portugal, Cornwall (and, of course, Sweden and London for friends!)
Then there's Walter's invitation to Germany, Drom's to Armenia! I am equally torn - but remain flexible. BTW you are always very welcome in Devon (much nicer than Cornwall)!
Clary wrote:
Then there's Walter's invitation to Germany, Drom's to Armenia! I am equally torn - but remain flexible. BTW you are always very welcome in Devon (much nicer than Cornwall)!
Yes, much too much to see - and the 24-hour flight to get there is still the killer! My friend from Sweden has applied for an academic job at a new medical school down your way somewhere (Exeter / Plymouth or somewhere.) I'm sort of waiting until she finds out - if she moves there - then I can skip Sweden this time.
Yes! Hope she gets it! There's a programme on the radio at this very minute about the necessity of recruiting medical staff from abroad...! The Peninsula Medical School is scattered over several sites, Exeter, Plymouth and Cornwall even.
By the way, the geneticists are talking about producing a hypoallergenic cat - so I might end up liking them after all!
Hello Clazza, other friends and fellow-travellers,
I am off to Hong Kong on Saturday, leaving London Heathrow on Saturday evening. Just for a little jaunt, to visit my kinswoman.
So wish me Bon Voyage, and hasta la vista.
Am looking forward very much to the new experience- never been to China before.
See you in a week or so.
McT
Bon voyage, mc tag, and I/we will be very interested on your comments when you get back.
A painter who shows with us and her husband who is involved in kinetic sculpture races are in China right now, courtesy of a british show, I think. Looking forward to their coming back and what they say.
I've a few friends who have been there and we on a2k have some poster pals.
An occasion of talk -
I happen to have a diminished sense of smell, and there was an article about a researcher at UC Irvine, who I contacted and was interested in me. I went there and got tested, but I screwed up the test since the form made you pick one of various choices, and to be truthful I couldn't pick any for most of the test. So, I punched number one for all those I didn't know, thus throwing off my data. But hey, they should have had room for such as me, a person with little recognition. I guess they think the limitation of choice will pick up subliminal smelling. Not me...
Anyway, the person who did the test was from China, and though the test was a mess, because of me personally, I did learn that she lived or worked or studied right near Tianamen square, and was very attached to it..
She was a nice woman, I appreciated knowing her for that minute.
Little surprising moments - a good topic for a thread perhaps. People who have touched your life just briefly but remained hard-wired in your memory.
I shall look forward to hearing McTag's impression of the place that was my home for 18 years. It is stunning, whatever else. My guidebook to it is published this month but hell, too late for him!
If you google for Culture Smart Hong Kong you can preorder my guidebook very cheap from WalMart in the US. I get no royalties so I don't care how cheap it is!
McTag is very much impressed in and aboutHongkong - he surely would be even more with Clary's guide as company, and perhaps got a better idea than having lunch in a tapas bar
Culture Smart! Hong Kong
Clary -- How cool! I was able to quickly and easily find your book! Yay!!!!
Too bad McTag didn't have it with him. It will be interesting to read how he enjoys his short trip and all the things he gets to see and do.
Very nice, Clary, glad to see it!
