The Cigale flies to France and returns wingless
Oct 6th, 2007, 05:31 AM
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Mimi, fantastic report - thank you! Made time to read it before I'm off to work this morning and it was time well spent.
Glad you drank many glasses of your sublime pastis, including the first glass that dispelled any irritation!
Love the tidbit about the mayor dog that recognized you and your glass of pastis. It's details such as this that make one yearn for a report from La Cigale!!
Glad you drank many glasses of your sublime pastis, including the first glass that dispelled any irritation!
Love the tidbit about the mayor dog that recognized you and your glass of pastis. It's details such as this that make one yearn for a report from La Cigale!!
Oct 7th, 2007, 02:47 PM
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Wow. coming from you too ladies that I admire, thank you.
While in Poitiers I bought some Glucosamine. I forgot to bring mine from home. Earlier in the trip, I could only find in in ampules.
A fodorite, I can't remember who,(please come forward
said to try it, I did and stopped as it didn't seem to work and it wasn't inexpensive. She told me it takes accumulation of a few months so I went back on it and yes, it did happen after a few months that I felt the improvement.
The pharmacist in Poitiers said to be that it will take three month to notice improvement and I nodded yes I know and thought of that fodorite
While in Poitiers I bought some Glucosamine. I forgot to bring mine from home. Earlier in the trip, I could only find in in ampules.
A fodorite, I can't remember who,(please come forward
said to try it, I did and stopped as it didn't seem to work and it wasn't inexpensive. She told me it takes accumulation of a few months so I went back on it and yes, it did happen after a few months that I felt the improvement.The pharmacist in Poitiers said to be that it will take three month to notice improvement and I nodded yes I know and thought of that fodorite
Oct 7th, 2007, 04:47 PM
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Hi cigalechanta, thanks for the reports. I have been reading it from the beginning. Got one comment and one question for you. First, I was in Provence for the first time in 1997. I got to test my first Cavaillon melon in that trip. I loved it. However, in my subsequent trips to France I was able to get just regular melon. Still it was better than the melon I purchased in the states. I read some where that you can get Cavaillon melon in June only. Is it true? What month did you take this trip? Another is about Glucosamine. My docter told me to try it but it has to be the one with Chondroitin Sulfate. I just started it not too long ago. Since you feel better with yours, is it the regular Glucosamine? If it is, I want to try it because the CosaminDS costs a lot.
Oct 7th, 2007, 05:10 PM
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georgiegirl,
I do take the chondroitin combo but couldn't find it there where I made stops.
The Cavaillon melon is available july and earlier through Septeember.
The Fete de Melon in Cavaillon is in July but never attended it.
They are sometimes importrd here.
years ago I bought one and you know they are heavy but rather small.
It cost me $9 and didn't taste the same. Like Pastis, that melon is best enjoyed under the Proveçal sun with my cigales singing.
I do take the chondroitin combo but couldn't find it there where I made stops.
The Cavaillon melon is available july and earlier through Septeember.
The Fete de Melon in Cavaillon is in July but never attended it.
They are sometimes importrd here.
years ago I bought one and you know they are heavy but rather small.
It cost me $9 and didn't taste the same. Like Pastis, that melon is best enjoyed under the Proveçal sun with my cigales singing.
Oct 7th, 2007, 07:35 PM
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Hello Cigalechanta or is it Mimi?
In anycase great report. Just wanted wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading it.
BTW the Glucosamine for humans & dogs issue is currently being discussed on in the lounge as well. You may get more info there.
ams
In anycase great report. Just wanted wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading it.
BTW the Glucosamine for humans & dogs issue is currently being discussed on in the lounge as well. You may get more info there.
ams
Oct 7th, 2007, 08:14 PM
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Thanks, Amsdon, the lounge I try to avoid, Alot of toxic personalities there but alot of great persons are there, many my friends so I stop in sometimes but stay here most of the time, and on other forums of my interests and I know alot of the effects on Glucosimine for me.
It's funny, The French prefer suppositoties and ampules where we Amricans prefer pills a capsules.
It's funny, The French prefer suppositoties and ampules where we Amricans prefer pills a capsules.
Oct 10th, 2007, 10:56 AM
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Mimi - a great report. More than a report, something like a nice thick stack of postcards.
re: foam - I've seen this mostly on TV, too, and though it CAN be interesting, it often looks like someone spit on the plate. Yummy.
re: Glucosamine & Chondroitin - look around for generics. Even virtually the same formula s CosaminDS can be found for much less.
re: Glucosamine and dogs = I haven't read the lounge reports, but I can tell you that the first time I heard of the stuff my neighbor was giving it to her seriously arthritic dog, which after a couple of weeks was willing to take the stairs for the first time in a couple of years, and from there out didn't balk. So I figured, "inconclusive results" be damned. I took G&C for several years and really helped elbow and knee stiffness. Now I've stopped it but the results seem permanent - perhaps the inflamation was kept down long enough that I stopped "re=hurting" (which is one of the big issues with inflammation: continued stress and injury.)
Mimi, I'm glad I found your thread! Late, but not less interested, I remain ... TC
re: foam - I've seen this mostly on TV, too, and though it CAN be interesting, it often looks like someone spit on the plate. Yummy.
re: Glucosamine & Chondroitin - look around for generics. Even virtually the same formula s CosaminDS can be found for much less.
re: Glucosamine and dogs = I haven't read the lounge reports, but I can tell you that the first time I heard of the stuff my neighbor was giving it to her seriously arthritic dog, which after a couple of weeks was willing to take the stairs for the first time in a couple of years, and from there out didn't balk. So I figured, "inconclusive results" be damned. I took G&C for several years and really helped elbow and knee stiffness. Now I've stopped it but the results seem permanent - perhaps the inflamation was kept down long enough that I stopped "re=hurting" (which is one of the big issues with inflammation: continued stress and injury.)
Mimi, I'm glad I found your thread! Late, but not less interested, I remain ... TC
Oct 10th, 2007, 11:10 AM
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OOPS! I left out our days in the Vienne!!!
On the road again, heading to Bonnes which is near Chauvigny which is near Poitiers in the Vienne.. Along the way, we stop lunch at a restaurant in a beautiful park that had a pond where ducks were swimming and six white geese were sunning.
After lunch while Jerry waited to pay the bill, I said I'd walk to te pond to take a picture. Now the geese were on the opposite side of the pond by the restaurant path. As I started to take a photo, they started chasing me and the leader bit me on the leg. Luckily I was wearing long pants and at that moment Jerry drove up to rescue me. The geese held us up refusing to move from in front of the car til we started inching our way out and finally tooting the horn. It's cold also in Bonnes. Our friends have a surprise for me knowing I love animals and especially theirs. After our kisses and catching up on our lives. Michel tells me he bought a big dog for Marie-Claire because she is frightened when he is not there. I thought that strange, there are huge gates that enclose the compound. He leads me to the kitchen where in a corner sits a pet basket and the sweetest miniture Yorkie I have ever seen named Canelle. She is one of the brightest, most beautiful pups I have ever met and so full of energy and is playing constantly with one of the hunting hunting dogs that is four times her size but he treats her gently. She is Rafale the new hunting dog and only one of seven allowed in the house. Canelle also goes into her basket to nap when she tires.
Caramel the cat also greets us. I was happy she remembered me. In former visits she would follow me and the dog, Audric,
that I usually walked. She is now big and more into rabbit hunting than me. Dinner that night was sanglier (wild boar)
that Michel himself had hunted as well as the rabbit in the paté that Marie-Claire prepared.
Days started to get bleary as I don't take notes but one day we went to La Trimouille to the Ile des Serpents. This place has alligators, turtles, serpents, iquanas, mangooses, lizzards, and other creatures, I'm not sure what they were.
I couldn't bear to watch the keepers at feeding time serving rodents to the serpents that the children seemed to watch in awe.
On day we visited Montmorillon, called La Cité de l'Erit. it was too spread out and not as nice as the village of books In Montolieu near Saissac in the Aude. We stopped at L'Octogone, an octogonal structure from the 12th century, built on the model of St Sépulcre in Jérusalem. It's believed to be a mysterious funeral chapel.
The French seem to have museums for everything. Montmoriillon has a macaron museum. It was closed that day but the shop was open and Jerry bought an assortment of Liquer chocolates for M&Marie-Claire. I bought a small stuffed white lamb from the St. Antoine collection they sold.
Marie-Claire drove Jerry and me to a flea market near Poitiers. She's like me, who loves them. She bought a load of stuff. I bought a painting of a boy and his small white dog that he carries. I think it's a digital painting not a real canvas painted original but it's charming at 2€ and I bought a carved wooden cigale and a carved round wooden box . The cover has a painted sanglier. There were pony rides for the children, and a jazz band, a floor for dancing.
Our last night I started to get a sore throat. They offer us wine to take home but it is so stuffed within our suitcases. Lots of kisses and goodbyes.
P.S. Other villages where we stopped were Civeau, Smarves.
In Poitiers we went to cyber café. The man who ran it loved Americans and didn't mind my pestering him for help and when we left he told us of his travels in the USA. We also stopped at the Printemps where I bought another sweater.
On the road again, heading to Bonnes which is near Chauvigny which is near Poitiers in the Vienne.. Along the way, we stop lunch at a restaurant in a beautiful park that had a pond where ducks were swimming and six white geese were sunning.
After lunch while Jerry waited to pay the bill, I said I'd walk to te pond to take a picture. Now the geese were on the opposite side of the pond by the restaurant path. As I started to take a photo, they started chasing me and the leader bit me on the leg. Luckily I was wearing long pants and at that moment Jerry drove up to rescue me. The geese held us up refusing to move from in front of the car til we started inching our way out and finally tooting the horn. It's cold also in Bonnes. Our friends have a surprise for me knowing I love animals and especially theirs. After our kisses and catching up on our lives. Michel tells me he bought a big dog for Marie-Claire because she is frightened when he is not there. I thought that strange, there are huge gates that enclose the compound. He leads me to the kitchen where in a corner sits a pet basket and the sweetest miniture Yorkie I have ever seen named Canelle. She is one of the brightest, most beautiful pups I have ever met and so full of energy and is playing constantly with one of the hunting hunting dogs that is four times her size but he treats her gently. She is Rafale the new hunting dog and only one of seven allowed in the house. Canelle also goes into her basket to nap when she tires.
Caramel the cat also greets us. I was happy she remembered me. In former visits she would follow me and the dog, Audric,
that I usually walked. She is now big and more into rabbit hunting than me. Dinner that night was sanglier (wild boar)
that Michel himself had hunted as well as the rabbit in the paté that Marie-Claire prepared.
Days started to get bleary as I don't take notes but one day we went to La Trimouille to the Ile des Serpents. This place has alligators, turtles, serpents, iquanas, mangooses, lizzards, and other creatures, I'm not sure what they were.
I couldn't bear to watch the keepers at feeding time serving rodents to the serpents that the children seemed to watch in awe.
On day we visited Montmorillon, called La Cité de l'Erit. it was too spread out and not as nice as the village of books In Montolieu near Saissac in the Aude. We stopped at L'Octogone, an octogonal structure from the 12th century, built on the model of St Sépulcre in Jérusalem. It's believed to be a mysterious funeral chapel.
The French seem to have museums for everything. Montmoriillon has a macaron museum. It was closed that day but the shop was open and Jerry bought an assortment of Liquer chocolates for M&Marie-Claire. I bought a small stuffed white lamb from the St. Antoine collection they sold.
Marie-Claire drove Jerry and me to a flea market near Poitiers. She's like me, who loves them. She bought a load of stuff. I bought a painting of a boy and his small white dog that he carries. I think it's a digital painting not a real canvas painted original but it's charming at 2€ and I bought a carved wooden cigale and a carved round wooden box . The cover has a painted sanglier. There were pony rides for the children, and a jazz band, a floor for dancing.
Our last night I started to get a sore throat. They offer us wine to take home but it is so stuffed within our suitcases. Lots of kisses and goodbyes.
P.S. Other villages where we stopped were Civeau, Smarves.
In Poitiers we went to cyber café. The man who ran it loved Americans and didn't mind my pestering him for help and when we left he told us of his travels in the USA. We also stopped at the Printemps where I bought another sweater.
Oct 10th, 2007, 11:47 AM
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