Collioure , Barcelona

alain wrote:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah! Donate!!!!

Peter

How was it in Spain, bro?

Waiting for more pics.

Peter

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to be continued....

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LOL Colin , I returned home with my cam and put it on my IEE 194 ...
nothing happened

I asked Bertrand to help me , as he is at home on holidays , and ...

he let me 6 days fighting with that , on forums etc etc , searching drivers etc etc
It took me hours and hours !!
becoming crazy with ..
So ..at the end .. as

Bertrand is leaving tomorow ,

I re asked him for the 12085 time ! .... he looked at the puter 2 seconds and told me :
you have to buy a card , there is none !!!

Had I to kill him ?? humm .. I dind't .. ... stupid I am ..

So I went to the city ..bought the card and ....it works !! .. 26 e ...

I see you now with pupils ! Very funny LOL ,
I will upload some parts on the web

wait

quickly done

when we were at the top ,

this sort of pic :

http://www.cyberhenge.ca/forum/ger2.jpg

the guide told us :

"here you couls see . roman ...gothic ..baroco .."

if I rember well ..

heu you begin to like cities , LOL , Colin

Yes, A, you forced me to go to Girona, and I found some beauty there.
So, I then went to Nice, and it sucked (diesal gases, cough cough).
But the train from Nice to Entreveux was very good.
Collioure was the best (because isa has family there?).
I will make a little show of my adventure there tomorrow.
Preview:




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Collioure was the best (because isa has family there?).

yes !!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






http://dumenieu.free.fr/barcelone/colinbarcelone.wmv


9 MO , wait

c'est pour faire de l'huile d'olive ?? c'est ca ?? elle parle vite la dame ....

the incredible Sagrada Familia ,
under construction

Pour isa (& sa famille)



Sorry, A & isa, I am the only person on Earth sans Windows Media Player (driver corrupted or replaced). Will try getting my laptop wifi to work later.

Meanwhile, enjoy my artsy YouTube treatment of Collioure. The beautiful music is full of sentimentality. Almost makes me want to cry.

ciao

ColiX

yes ...melancolic ....

well done .. good feeling ..original ..
it is not the "used postcard "

thank you very much , Colin

For Zorro-Pig





Tonight, while contemplating the Cathedral's former role in the Spanish Inquisition and its persecution of Jews, I ran across this nice Da Vinci Code-like bit of prose...



"...typical scenes of modern city life all stop flat at the River Onyar, a copper-colored band in the hazy morning light. On the other side, the old town of Girona rises from the hillside - a jumble of multi-hued structures, sloping tiled roofs, Romanesque towers, and Gothic spires. The Carrer de la Forca, once part of the ancient Roman route that crossed the Iberian peninsula, begins just beyond the footbridge. It is a narrow and steep cobblestone road leading to even narrower lanes that climb to even steeper heights only to disappear into sudden cul de sacs. Stone buildings, huddled one against the other, hover over the byways. Some are linked to facing buildings, making of the street below a dim and silent tunnel.

"Even by such standards, the Carrer de Sant Llorenc is more a dark alley than a street. Turned into a stairway to ease the pedestrian climb, it levels off at the doorway of a massive building. But beyond the door, the gloom is suddenly lifted as one steps into an airy alcove leading onto a bright, sun-splashed patio. There, flowered vines are cascading down from surrounding balconies. Arched recesses break the stone walls, and a profusion of plants line the gleaming granite floor. It is paved with slabs the color of earth except for the center where white, beige and brown blocks are formed into an enormous Star of David.

"This is the heart of the Call, the legendary medieval Jewish community of Girona where the Kabbalah was first written down. For nearly 500 years, it lay buried, literally sealed off, as houses and streets were, in successive layers, built over it. Now in an ambitious restoration project, Gironans are digging down through levels of construction and back through centuries to unearth a part of Jewish and Catalan history that began at the start of the ninth century, ended at the close of the fifteenth, and then slowly faded from public memory until it was completely forgotten."

Jeez, P, as if the Holy Grail weren't enough, now we have to go back to Girona to search for the Kabbalah!

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Lol, Colin, sounds like you're doing your overseas trips better each time....

One day I will show you Spain's secret delights....

By now, I'm waiting at the gate for boarding my today's first plane : Melbourne to Singapore... about 8 hours of torture.

Then Singapore to Frankfurt, another 13 hours of torture ...

Arriving home Thuesday morning.

TC all.

Peter

see you soon Peter !

Your text and last video , Colin , remembered me Louis Aragon :

Quote :

Louis Aragon publie le Fou d’Elsa, poème, en 1963,
dans l’ombre morale de la fin douloureuse de la guerre d’Algérie.
Comme toutes les oeuvres d’Aragon, ce poème est de circonstance.
Le Fou d’Elsa, monument de la poésie lyrique française,
fait le récit de la chute de Grenade en 1492.
L’évocation de cette grande brisure entre Nord et Sud,
islam et Occident, Arabes, juifs et chrétiens
fait résonner d’autres guerres, d’autres défaites :
juin 1940 en France, août 1936 et l’assassinat de Lorca à Grenade,
la brutalité coloniale de la petite guerre du Rif,
oubliée au lendemain de la grande tuerie de 14-18 qui inaugure le XXe siècle.
L’effondrement du rêve nasride aux derniers jours de la Reconquista catholique en Andalousie
s’offre aussi en miroir à celui, estampillé depuis la sinistre année 1956
(intervention en Hongrie, 20e Congrès du PCUS),
de l’utopie communiste.

From step to step I went to Jean Ferrat who made the music for
"Aimer à perdre la raison " , text from "Le fou d'Elsa" ..

if you have some time to waste , look here LOL


https://closed.forumactif.com/votre-galerie-your-gallery-f12/lier-relier-collages-t927-150.htm#66040

from Veronique

http://picasaweb.google.fr/veroniquechappuis/Barcelona2008?authkey=zC-RMMKadsI

LOL trop marrant , Aranud ,
on fait un boulot "voir à travers " ,

et il m'envoie par mail , la veille du cours ,

2 photos où je suis en train de filmer à travers la cam LOL ,

pendant notre voyage commun à Barcelone

dont celle ci :

LOL !! it is absolutly where I found Colin ! after worrying if he was still in Collioure or not ..



he appears suddently on that place !

I was so impressed that ..I remember ..I kissed heim !! ))

another chat btw
gironavirtual.com

Peter knows from where it comes from

( and jacinto too )

flowers coming from my garden