Ben, Your city seems beautiful and the sea tipically stottishly wilde... Is it close to Edinburgh? I thought it was where you studied?
It really is lovely, and I absolutely love living here. I'm actually a student at the University of St Andrews, not Edinburgh, but I go to Edinburgh quite a lot (I spent New Year there, or Hogmanay as it's called in Scotland).
It's quite near to Edinburgh (about 80km away), but the nearest 'big' city to St Andrews is actually Dundee.
Fife is the peninsular between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay.
Another picture, looking towards the castle from the pier:
fab wrote:
A "beatiful wildness", that makes me thinks of the image of the "eternal Scotland" we have all read when children in Tintin "l'ile noire":...
Interesting... Black Isle is actually a peninsular just north of Inverness, between Moray Firth, Beauly Firth and Cromarty Firth:
Don't idealize too much haute Provence, the landscapes and nature life may be really beautiful, most of it can be really hard to live, especially in winter when its cold and you are far from animation and an active social life as you may be used to.
I lived a few year in a little village in Var, which is not as much isolated (being closer to the big cities of the coast) than Haute-Provence, the winter time was not that fun.
this village in winter: the good thing is that there is more sun than in Paris
but it still not being much lively, here the main plaza...
Don't idealize too much haute Provence, the landscapes and nature life may be really beautiful, most of it can be really hard to live, especially in winter when its cold and you are far from animation and an active social life as you may be used to.
I lived a few year in a little village in Var, which is not as much isolated (being closer to the big cities of the coast) than Haute-Provence, the winter time was not that fun.
this village in winter: the good thing is that there is more sun than in Paris
but it still not being much lively, here the main plaza...
and it can be quite cold sometimes.
I hear what you say... but it still remains beautiful... _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject:
Deborah wrote:
Then I'll just spend my summers there.
I think I'll join you! Speaking of which, last night this dashing, slightly-older but very attractive man kept buying me and my girlfriend drinks (well he insisted!). As we chatted he invited us to vacation at his summer home in Cap Ferrat. I had never heard of the place before, but now that I've had the chance to look it up online, I think I'll take him up on it! I certainly hope he wasn't pulling our legs.
The guy invited you at his home there ??
This guy must be either a lier or a millionaire !!
Well, yes I know very well the place, it is very famous very town just about 2 or 3kms from Nice (I lived in Nice a few years... So I know well), and close to Monaco.
Saint Jean Cap Ferrat is sort of a Berverly hills of the end of 19th century and begining of 20th. There you'll met a majority of rich people of all the world. Not a lot of french people actually (a VERY different world from the more authentic Haute-provence!! ;) )
Some American stars, Oil arabian princes and princesses, big businessmens... and European average tourits curious to see this luxury world... actually it is on a small peninsula where are spread the villas, and it still exist a little old port-village, that doesn't host no fishermen since at least 100 years...
The view from there is really beatiful around... with the high-class town of villefranche sur mer, the little village of Eze, Menton, Beaulieu,... monaco (which is actually more a leisure theme park with "disney architecture" than a city for me...)
Saint jean cap ferrat it the town on the peninsula we see here (name cap-ferrat!)
to see how it looks...
seen from Eze
seen from Nice (Mont-Boron view towards east).
I actually prefer old quarter of Nice, which looks like more a "normal" city than to an artificial paradize for millionaires...
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:31 am Post subject:
If anyone's interested (or has the time), Huell Howser, a local TV personality (who was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons) did an "Our Neighborhoods" episode on my neighborhood of Echo Park, which is now available on demand here. Just scroll down to "Our Neighborhoods: Echo Park" in the lower right hand box.
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject:
For some reason, I couldn't hear anything on the Echo Park episode, which is just as well, because I tend
to cringe when I hear the guy. He seems very nice, but he's so loud, and his interviewing style makes
him seem like such a bumpkin!
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:12 am Post subject:
Deborah wrote:
He seems very nice, but he's so loud, and his interviewing style makes him seem like such a bumpkin!
That's what makes his shows so charming. Seriously, he kind of does lay on the fish-of-water act a little thick. I watched one episode where he visited an Armenian deli in one of the most ethnically diverse parts of town and he asked one of the patrons where he was from. The guy said Cuba and Huell responded incredulously, "Cuba????? You're from Cuba? Isn't that something? You're from Cuba!" I yelled at the tv screen, "What's the matter, Huell, ain't you never seen one of those before?"
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:20 am Post subject:
I notice him saying "Wow!" a lot, but making the word last for several seconds, and, I'm sure, adding in a couple of extra vowel sounds. (They do this in some Southern accents -- back in 1970, I heard a girl in North Carolina say "Far out!" the same way; I think the phrase had 7 syllables the way she said it!)
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I think I'll take him up on it! 
I certainly hope he wasn't pulling our legs.
