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Eva's Wine Cellar

 
 
Eva
 
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Reply Thu 3 Feb, 2005 08:59 pm
Well, of course not. It's jet lag. We're operating on Paris time now.
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Eva
 
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Reply Fri 4 Feb, 2005 11:36 pm
So, Francis, it appears we're all awake now and properly fed. How about that tour you promised? Where shall we start?
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 4 Feb, 2005 11:42 pm
I think I did mean Chenonceaux, then, but not so much now. It was a progenitor of gardens, re water use...

eye on Vaux le Vicomte....

more on that one later.


(please understand, though I had a very quick survey class years ago, I know less now, since I know more. Thus, I'm a blank slate...)
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 03:09 pm
Eva wrote:
So, Francis, it appears we're all awake now and properly fed. How about that tour you promised? Where shall we start?


Before I take you to Paris, I would like to show you the Fontainebleau surroudings!

Some nice places I'm sure you'd like.

Let's begin with Moret-sur-Loing, famous for it's painters like Sisley, English born but long living and dead here.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gismonda/images/moret.jpg
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 03:21 pm
One more of Moret, before going to Barbizon, which I guess will delight Osso!

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gismonda/images/moret1.jpg
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 03:55 pm
Heading to Barbizon, impressionist painters place.

Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Seurat and many others were here.

Stop to take some drink here :http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gismonda/images/thebarb.jpg

Osso, here's Rousseau:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gismonda/images/rousseau.jpg

And a link I like :Florence Griswold museum
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 04:21 pm
ossobuco wrote:
I think I did mean Chenonceaux, then, but not so much now. It was a progenitor of gardens, re water use...
eye on Vaux le Vicomte....


After a little chat here in Barbizon we'll head to Vaux le Vicomte, twenty minutes from here!

Chenonceau being two hours away, I'll just show you the pictures.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 07:12 pm
Oh, this is so much fun! I loved the Moret pictures...
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 08:21 pm
Beautiful pictures Francis.

But I need something to drink fast. We just came from
the soccer field (little Jane's team lost) and I feel so
cold. What will warm me up the fastest?
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Eva
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 08:53 pm
Oh, how gorgeous, Francis! What a treat! I'd like to spend all afternoon staring at Morey! If you weren't already a painter when you first came there, that first view alone would be enough to make you put brush to canvas.

Here, CJ. I had them put some hot tea with lemon in a "go cup" back at the tea bar. You can have it. And here's un petit eclair for Little Jane, poor darling.

http://www.chocolateswan.com/images/eclair.jpg
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Diane
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 09:04 pm
Francis, these pictures are stunning!

The Florence Griswald Museum is delightful and Old Lyme is still an artist's colony even though the city has become larger and somewhat suburbanized. I lived not too far from there before I moved to New Mexico.

Calamity, thank dear Eva and quickly eat the damned eclair. I just started the Atkins diet and it (the eclair) is making me drool.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 5 Feb, 2005 09:58 pm
How sweet of you Eva, I love to drink tea in the evening,
and the eclair looks so tempting, but I will have little Jane
eat it.....oh, maybe I'll try a tiny bit of it.
Thank you Eva!

Diane, I thought with Atkinks you can eat all that?
I love bread and pasta, so I couldn't live without it.
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Eva
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 02:32 pm
I'm afraid the eclair would not be okay with Atkins, CJ. Nor with South Beach, which I am on. But of course I am making an exception while we are in France. You gotta live!

On with the tour, Francis!
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 02:58 pm
We are arriving at Vaux-le-Vicomte!

http://kattyc.free.fr/images/vaux0.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 02:58 pm
Smiling...
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 02:59 pm
Take a look from the other side!

http://kattyc.free.fr/images/vaux3.jpg
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 03:02 pm
Look inside!

http://kattyc.free.fr/images/vaux6.jpg
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 03:11 pm
A last one :

http://kattyc.free.fr/images/vaux2.jpg

And a link to the history of Vaux-le-Vicomte
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 03:24 pm
and here is one more nifty site -

vaux le vicomte
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 6 Feb, 2005 03:31 pm
a link to Chenonceau
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