Last time we went from Belgium so we stayed overnight - just across the
road in (what was) the only hotel in the village. So we went in an hour
before closing one evening and first thing in the morning the next day when
it was almost empty.
The coach parties of foreign (mostly Asian) tourists seem to be allowed in
via a back entrance so we were surprised to find them inside when we
emerged from the main entrance. Maybe pre-paid tickets get you in that way.
OMG - just looked back and found it was in August 2009. If I tell my wife
she'll have me over there next week!
On 28 January 2016 at 10:14, philippe.amard <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 28 janv. 16 à 07:24, ChrisB a écrit :
>
> That poem is rather lovely, Moose.
>>
>
> Yup!
>
>
> That link is useful, Jez, although the images didn’t load for me.
>>
>> In the manner of ...
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/2016-Best+Wishes-Amard-.jpg.html
>
> and the place
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Philichromes/2014-Phililychrome-Giverny-6359.jpg.html
> and next two
>
>
> I’ve visited his house at Giverny and it is a beautiful place; we stayed
>> not far away, on the river at Les Andelys, a place on the apex of a meander
>> of the Seine. It was a thoroughly peaceful and restful place to be.
>>
>>
> Indeed! Even if a bit somewhat to a certain extent crowded ;-)
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/396237-2/WW-Selfie-Double+Take-6338.jpg
>
> Amities
> Philippe
>
>
>
> Chris
>> (I do hate the term “back story”, though. “Background” was useful enough
>> and less ugly.)
>>
>> On 27 Jan 16, at 22:13, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The back story is equally fascinating...
>>> http://psych.ucalgary.ca/PACE/VA-Lab/AVDE-Website/Monet.html
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27/01/2016, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Monet Refuses the Operation
>>>>
>>>> Doctor, you say that there are no halos
>>>> around the streetlights in Paris
>>>> and what I see is an aberration
>>>> caused by old age, an affliction.
>>>> I tell you it has taken me all my life
>>>> to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
>>>> to soften and blur and finally banish
>>>> the edges you regret I don't see,
>>>> to learn that the line I called the horizon
>>>> does not exist and sky and water,
>>>> so long apart, are the same state of being.
>>>> Fifty-four years before I could see
>>>> Rouen cathedral is built
>>>> of parallel shafts of sun,
>>>> and now you want to restore
>>>> my youthful errors: fixed
>>>> notions of top and bottom,
>>>> the illusion of three-dimensional space,
>>>> wisteria separate
>>>> from the bridge it covers.
>>>> What can I say to convince you
>>>> the Houses of Parliament dissolve
>>>> night after night to become
>>>> the fluid dream of the Thames?
>>>> I will not return to a universe
>>>> of objects that don't know each other,
>>>> as if islands were not the lost children
>>>> of one great continent. The world
>>>> is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
>>>> becomes water, lilies on water,
>>>> above and below water,
>>>> becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
>>>> and white and cerulean lamps,
>>>> small fists passing sunlight
>>>> so quickly to one another
>>>> that it would take long, streaming hair
>>>> inside my brush to catch it.
>>>> To paint the speed of light!
>>>> Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
>>>> burn to mix with air
>>>> and changes our bones, skin, clothes
>>>> to gases. Doctor,
>>>> if only you could see
>>>> how heaven pulls earth into its arms
>>>> and how infinitely the heart expands
>>>> to claim this world, blue vapor without end.
>>>>
>>>> - Lisel Mueller
>>>>
>>>>
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> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to
> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
> NO ARCHIVE
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