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Train across Europe
2008.05.25
My dear daughters plucked me from my garden and studio (in background with Ealing Studios beyond that, and off we went on darling Eurostar...
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My dear daughters plucked me from my garden and studio (in background with Ealing Studios beyond that, and off we went on darling Eurostar...
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... to a Paris where they stood around under the trees in Place de Vosges and the sun kindly obliged...
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... to a Paris where they stood around under the trees in Place de Vosges and the sun kindly obliged...
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...and I couldn't resist crowning the gels by proxy. I nearly called this Three Angels but the words stuck in my throat; one must set a limit to exaggerating the excellence of one's own offspring.
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...and I couldn't resist crowning the gels by proxy. I nearly called this Three Angels but the words stuck in my throat; one must set a limit to exaggerating the excellence of one's own offspring.
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But I can't exaggerate the sheer crazed and wonderful beauty of the Train Bleu restaurant. My youngest tried to get a reflection off my bald head but only partially succeeded.
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But I can't exaggerate the sheer crazed and wonderful beauty of the Train Bleu restaurant. My youngest tried to get a reflection off my bald head but only partially succeeded.
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My eldest and I worked a lot in Berlin before and after The Wall and this was a sore sight for eyes then. And still is, a memorial to a hideous war. The graffiti was there then; it reads 'Where bunkers rise, bombs will fall'. That's what I call a graffito.
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My eldest and I worked a lot in Berlin before and after The Wall and this was a sore sight for eyes then. And still is, a memorial to a hideous war. The graffiti was there then; it reads 'Where bunkers rise, bombs will fall'. That's what I call a graffito.
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Potsdam is really jolly though as you see, as with the magic restaurant, it's perpendicular to the horizontal, a remarkable feat of engineering and an act of sheer incompetence on my part; I should have stood up to take it. The lettering says Sans souci. French for 'couldn't give a tinker's curse'.
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Potsdam is really jolly though as you see, as with the magic restaurant, it's perpendicular to the horizontal, a remarkable feat of engineering and an act of sheer incompetence on my part; I should have stood up to take it. The lettering says Sans souci. French for 'couldn't give a tinker's curse'.
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More square metres of sheer painterly delight than you can shake a stick at. Gill is saying 'Get up off that seat painted to resemble grass and join the queue or else.'
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More square metres of sheer painterly delight than you can shake a stick at. Gill is saying 'Get up off that seat painted to resemble grass and join the queue or else.'
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They're not above posing for arty shots involving glasses of alcoholic drinks. They're not above emptying them at an alarming rate too.
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They're not above posing for arty shots involving glasses of alcoholic drinks. They're not above emptying them at an alarming rate too.
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A little smidgeon of the fantastic Grand Place; I was taken with Mercury against that evening sky.
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A little smidgeon of the fantastic Grand Place; I was taken with Mercury against that evening sky.
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From the rich green of a nice wet English summer across Europe to Berlin and back again. Ah... that night train from Paris, full of mysterious Greta Garbo women in furs sans knickers, probably, with long cigarette holders - just the holders, they couldn't smoke except in 5 sq yards of the bar - and the Oz lady with her 20 year old niece in the next compartment... huh!... that was their cover. Doubtless spies for somewhere or other. Then Berlin, city of the grim and the sans souci, Amsterdam, Venice of the North sans gondolas, The Grand Place Brussels at night avec moules et frites and back to Paris and that amazing Train Bleu restaurant... highlight of 2007 (floats away in state of ecstacy)...
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very nice set Rob but why the sideways view? No's 4 and 6
I must say it looks like a fantastic trip! And the garden looks simply lovely.
