A Europe A2K Gathering in May 2005

McTag wrote:

Will they announce us as we enter?

The parade will be followed by a carnival of dance, music, ... ... Shocked

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morelike cheer as we leave

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And now, at last exiting from the bar, from the right, The Laird and Lady McTag of that Ilk, Graf Walter Hinteler with his dance card, Waldegraf Thomas, Lord and Lady of All Hopefulness Steve, Le Comte Francis de l'Oreille, Butch Dyslexia and the Sundiane Kid, His Samuraiship Tak Cicerone, and Lady in Waiting Clary.

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Que du beau monde...

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Hopefully, Clary has cabled the society reporters of the Telegarph and Times about this event as well!

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and the police will have all the correct details for the arrest sheet! So much easier Smile

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Wasn't there a movie, ah, yes, High Society... with Grace Kelly and whom? (Bing Crosby? No, it couldn't have been, could it?)

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Well, I am flying on three planes tomorrow to the land of enchantment, New Mexico, to settle in at the home of a smart and peckish bird and a high leaping dog while their minders visit you folks.

This is reciprocal, in that I get to explore the city I am seriously thinking of moving to.

I am Not taking my nikon film camera, thus forcing myself to learn how to use my canon digital thingamabob. The instruction book is long and tricky, involving various chargings and blinkings, and people like me who want some control over matters have separate instructive pages. I am leaving the how-to-put-pictures-on-computer bit for a relaxed day back home. (I think. There is still time in the morning to fit that instruction book in the bag.)

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ossobuco wrote:

Well, I am flying on three planes tomorrow to the land of enchantment, New Mexico, to settle in at the home of a smart and peckish bird and a high leaping dog while their minders visit you folks.

This is reciprocal, in that I get to explore the city I am seriously thinking of moving to.

I am Not taking my nikon film camera, thus forcing myself to learn how to use my canon digital thingamabob. The instruction book is long and tricky, involving various chargings and blinkings, and people like me who want some control over matters have separate instructive pages. I am leaving the how-to-put-pictures-on-computer bit for a relaxed day back home. (I think. There is still time in the morning to fit that instruction book in the bag.)

Japanese instruction books are not too enticing, are they? And printed very small.

I have got a Canon digital thingamabob with just such an instruction book: I leave it switched to AUTO and it works just fine by itself.

Good luck in Albu-KK

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How come an ex-mex town sounds french?

Must have been a french nobleman, right?

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Albuquerque is Spanish, though it sounds like a Moorish name originally.

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Spanish and Portuguese famous families, it seems Albuquerque comes from latin "Albus" and "Quercus". White oak.

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ah, I was wrong about the Al being Arabic. White Oak is rather dull in comparison, isn't it? Also in New Mexico is Truth or Consequences - which used to be just Hot Springs. Sounds like they really want to jazz up their placenames. There's also Elephant Butte....

I would earnestly request anyone who has a particular preference about where they sit at dinner to pm me; confidentiality assured - if you secretly dislike one of the other participants, or are specially yearning to chat to them for that matter, I will accommodate your wishes.

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I wonder why there was a dude called Le Duc d'Albuquerque...
perhaps le Duc d' Al was the original Duke of Earl.
I like that song. :wink:

Anyhow that's why I thought it was french.

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The Albigensians, I believe, founded it and paved it.

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McTag

McTag wrote:

I wonder why there was a dude called Le Duc d'Albuquerque...
perhaps le Duc d' Al was the original Duke of Earl.
I like that song. :wink:

Anyhow that's why I thought it was french.

That's why Albuquerque's nickname is "Duke City."

BBB

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McTag wrote:

I wonder why there was a dude called Le Duc d'Albuquerque...
perhaps le Duc d' Al was the original Duke of Earl.
I like that song. :wink:

Anyhow that's why I thought it was french.

Yes, McTag, there was a Duc d'Albuquerque. He gave his name to the city as he was Vice-Roy of New-Spain at the time Albuquerque was founded (1706).

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ossobuco wrote:

The Albigensians, I believe, founded it and paved it.

Paved it too, great stuff. I photographed some great paving in Montecatini Terme last year. Very pretty it was, fan-shaped cobbles in two tones.

Also, I saw a TV programme last year where they were wandering around towns in South America, Peru or Chile it was I think, and the old streets had lovely cobblestones, and it turned out that these had originally come from Britain as ballast in sailing ships, which unloaded the ballast before taking on cargo, guano or something. Anyway, the cobblestones came from England. Isn't that interesting. Well I thought it was.

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Yes, and oddly serendipitous you mention this, as Diane was just telling me the cobbles in Sedona, Arizona are fom ship ballast.

I am a real cobble fan, have taken several photos of street excavations in italy since they fascinate me.

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I don't believe it, a paving and cobblestones thread.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to have tajeb some pictures.

Fascinating in London are the small round cast-iron covers in the footpaths/ sidewalks/ pavements, you see them a lot in front of terraced houses of the Georgian period, which are coal-holes.

They all seem to be made by different ironfoundries because there is a great variety.

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