Are You Making It Up? Part Dieux
May 6th, 1999, 11:46 AM
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Bob ([email protected]): go away, you're a party pooper. <BR> <BR>This is a riot! I am humbled in the presence of greatness. Keep going!
May 6th, 1999, 12:06 PM
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**I will never forget when my husband and I were touring Notre Dame in Avignon, and the priest and his accolytes flowed into the chapel and began saying mass in French, then started immediately serving Communion, and my poor husband broke out in a sweat, afraid that the priest would offer him the bread, and he would blurt out that he is not Catholic! We loved the Joan of Arc, which stands at the top of the small hill in the Pope's garden where the peacocks and peahens roam free.** <BR> <BR>P.S. Bob, it's not nice to call people morons.
May 6th, 1999, 12:13 PM
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Elaine, I think your post on the Bir-H stop was accurate (unless it is the RER and not the metro???!!!) No, I think that it is technically correct, except that if you can afford to eat at the Jules Verne restaurant, you would take a limousine and not bother with the subway.
May 6th, 1999, 12:39 PM
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<BR>let's see <BR> <BR>Helen: The Giverny info is indeed correct, at least I hope it is. <BR>Helen and Beth: Yes, Berthillon on Ile St Louis and Vivoli in Florence (I tried French-ifying the spelling.) Both places have the world's best ice cream. <BR>Walter: another art lover! and I don't know how to answer your question about the memorial except to repeat that it is east of Notre Dame (or if you're looking at the usual map of Paris, I guess yes it would be to the right of ND)but it isn't a "Jewish" memorial just a memorial to all those deported. France doesn't seem too big on acknowledging the fate of Jews during the war, prefers to talk about victims in general, but that's a political topic I'll drop right here. <BR>Joanne, you know your metro, and good point about the limo. I'd have to choose between going in style and not eating, or eating and hitchhiking home. <BR> <BR>Oh and bob, thank you.
May 6th, 1999, 12:57 PM
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Anne: No, don't cancel your trip to Italy. If you go to Rome, be sure to visit Bernini's Trevi Fountain. It's a bit north of the Villa Borghese. Another place worth seeing is the Castel Sant'Angelo, originally the tomb of Augustus, which is also famous as the building from which Tosca jumped in Bellini's opera. It's close to St. Peter's, which is, of course, the most famous place in Rome. <BR> <BR>Or perhaps you should check these facts out with someone else first. 
May 6th, 1999, 01:48 PM
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yeah, isn't Bellini the very small bellringer? And isn't the Trevi Fountain south of the Borghese? And isn't the Vatican considered its own nation, so that St Peters isn't really "in" Rome? <BR> <BR>Then again, maybe Anne SHOULD cancel her trip, as we all know Rome is entirely swathed in scaffolding as they prepare for the Jubilee in 2001. Instead she can rent a car, and drive right into the middle of Venice. Of course, she better make absolutely sure she has an international drivers license, as the rental company is sure to ask for it. <BR> <BR
May 6th, 1999, 02:09 PM
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Beth: Y'know, somehow I thought the St. Peter's one would be the one that would slip by. BTW, Italian grammar dictates that "Bellini" is plural; thus the small bellringers. But that's okay: as we all know, Americans are the only people in the world who don't speak foreign languages, as well as the only people who wear jeans and sneakers. <BR> <BR>There are still un-caught errors in my Rome posting. Come 'n' get 'em. <BR> <BR>John: You mean Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh? They wouldn't know Bellini from Puccini, though they would know a reel from an air, as it's one of the most long-lived folk pubs in England. (That was especially for Tony, who's no doubt out voting for the national assembly today.)
May 6th, 1999, 02:16 PM
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Reading all these great posts reminds me of when I was a student in Sevilla (Seville, Spain). There is SO much culture there. <BR>**When I think back my favorite memories are still those of the Cathedral downtown, right next to the Plaza de Toros. I was there in the springtime during the April Fair, and it was such a creepy feeling seeing all the Penitentes in their robes that look so much like KKK garb in their famous processions of religious floats. Everybody comes to see the processions but since they are so slow it isn't uncommon to see mothers picking the sweet oranges from the trees that grow all over the city to feed their children. <BR>My other Favorite memory is the view from the top of the Giralda looking down onto the Alhambra where King Carlos I and Holy Roman Emperor Carlos V were coronated.
