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I am leaving next week for a 5 week European trip. After landing in Paris and staying for 6 days, it will be on to Locquirec, Brittany, to visit Nicole, my French instructor, for a few days in her home village. I hope that I do not embarrass her with my egregious French... perhaps her friends and family are as gracious and patient as she is.
Leaving Locquirec it's on to Aix en Provence for a three-day visit. I am hoping to be able to travel North to Apt, to see the Tour de France pass by [evidently at 12:44 pm on July 19... pretty precise, n'est ce pas?]. As well, I would like to wander around on Mont Ste-Victoire, a favourite topic of one of my favourite painters, Cezanne.
Next, it will be on to Canale Monterano, Italy, to visit my friend, Claudio, and his family and friends. It is a paradise of a small town, and I look forward to my 10 days there. I will make an updated Canale reference, soon.
After Canale, I will go to Venice for 3 days, then Vienna for 3 days, and finally Frankfurt for 4 days, visiting my friends Martin and Arabella. On August 10, I fly back to Prince George... boo hoo.
Thinking about travel makes me think about great past trips. Here's a little video taken on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice... again video credit goes to Melinda:
If you have arrived at this blog, you might wonder why "filmguy"... I enjoy films; I watch a lot of films; I will review films on this site; I sometimes act like I am in a film, as if I am being observed from afar... this can be both highly amusing and frightening... try it some time... perhaps this is my answer to a godless universe.
An element of my film-liking is that I named my dog Bergman [after Ingemar, he's a boy]; he is a Jack Russell Terrier and a highly-amusing fellow. For your viewing enjoyment, I offer up a photoshopped pictur
e of him and a short movie-clip:
See, he is a handsome fellow, and kind-of a dork. Oh, video credits go to Melinda, as do original photo credits for the shot of Paris... found here for reference: http://oneofmyears.blogspot.com/2008/04/paris.html
Unfortunately, Bergman has yet to visit the City of Lights, but he will be very cool about it when he does... as he looks in the picture. Oh, credit goes to Melinda for the hat Bergman is wearing; she knit it [it is a child's cap, but I folded it down to look like a tam/beret for Bergman's cool style's sake].
The shot of Bergman was taken by the on-board camera on my IMac; these are a dangerous, but fun, invention, especially when coupled with Photobooth. What Mac user doesn't have 30 or 40 photos of themselves on the desktop, using every filter and option available?
Hello. Thank you for joining me in my self-indulgence. I enjoy looking at other peoples' blogs, but have always felt a little self-conscious about setting up my own, primarily because I am not so sure that anyone will care what I think or do, hence the title [you were warned].
Soon, I will be going on a big trip overseas and will use this as a way of recording things that happen while I am traveling. Perhaps I will let some of my friends know this address, so they can keep track of me... we'll see.
