bruits

http://www.gourmetfly.com/115kgc.jpg

http://www.howtotraveleurope.com/sausage.jpg

http://www.frenchduck.com/avbottles.jpg

haha bruits!!

http://perso.orange.fr/jeremytaylor/frenchfood/s01big.JPG

http://perso.orange.fr/jeremytaylor/frenchfood/s02big.JPG

http://www.dininginfrance.com/images/recipes_chicken.jpg

http://www.bloggingparis.net/images/elias/august06/CIMG0110.jpg

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/44/80/23238044.jpg

WEAR A FUNNY HAT + BE MADCAP AND FULL OF SORROW!

http://zaragozando.blogia.com/upload/20051116195709-jules-et-jim-01.jpg

scott... you are killing me here.

"and who to do"

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2006-03/24/xin_32030324135434003189.jpg

i think they have mountains and trees and buildings and museums and stuff too there...

might want to check some of that out if you have time.

musee rodin for sure! tons of great camille claudel there, too!

def the rodin.

i fell asleep on a bench there once! but it wasn't the musée's fault. jet-lagged.

little villages outside montpellier = a+

volcanic rock cathedral is cool in clermont-ferrand! also if there, must to hike up the puy-de-dome (is an extinct volcano and very pretty but not too difficult hike)! (you may recognize this from the mountains depicted on volvic water bottles).

the rodin is awesome bc it is his HOUSE! and there are sculptures outside in the gardens!

ya it is truly lovely.

I just finished a biography of Berlioz so I am v jealous of this trip.

Scott what is it about that chicken photo that makes it look as if the entire chicken is IRL the size of a golf ball?

I've never been anywhere more exotic than vancouver :(

i broke my 5 year vegetarianism at a christmas dinner in my friend's flat when i was living in paris, 1999. it was a french roast chicken (leek fondu on the side) that did it. truly one of the great meals of my life. i have never been so full.

musee rodin = no tick (not doin paris this time round)
clermont-ferrand = tick (but hike? yike more like)
montpellier = poss a bit far south but my main potential stay-with is bein v.unsure if she's gnna be round after all so i will poss have more time in the south than i currently plan for

do not drink beer, especially not kronenbourg

OTM

I used to have a book about the MYSTERIES OF CHARTES but I don't think I do anymore. I think it would have been up your alley, mark.

Skot, re last photo: I think you might be barking up the wrong tree re mark s. Mark, where exactly are you thinking of going/staying?

that was just the first thing that popped up whilst searching for french hotties.

route (roughly) = calais abbeville chartres orleans nevers clermont-ferrand puy-en-velay montelimar valreas avignons nimes millau rodez perigeaux angoulemes angers calais (over 10-12 days)

original plan wz to stay w.dr vick nr montelimar for 3-4 days in middle but as of earlier this eve she is still unsure if she'll be there when i am as she is skint and her car is bust, so i will instead possibly visit various other foax in that region over that period

exactly where i'll stay depends on where i get to after a day's drive i guess

scott is only barking up half the wrong tree

the truth is, and i hate to admit this, sometimes i just post stuff.

like this:

http://www.mickhagen.com/images/meHIGHSCHOOL.gif

in other words, not a whole lot of thought involved. but, hey, that's how majik is made.

who mark s wd hit:
i. the hottie
ii. the headband dude (and his date at 8, but not 4 or 10)
iii. the golfball-sized chicken

maybe also the guy holding the boar's snout

the hottie is supposedly a bond girl. but i didn't see that one. the last one. i think. with the new guy. whatshisface.

this guy:

http://www.hollandsimpson.com/blog/archives/New%20Bond.jpg

and here is the new james bond author, just in case you missed that:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/07/11/nbond111.jpg

i don't even know who mark s is but i stand by my recs

^^^ whoa generation gap!

have fun in fraaaaahnce mark s!

thx tehresa -- i don't know who i am any more either, that's what this trip is all about!

and thx everyone else also obv

make pilgrimages to various saints' body parts.

re: generation gap, yeah, even though i have been around for a few years now, i was still late to the whole ilx party.

Paris is a MOVIEGOING town par excellance

totes.

but i am not goin to paris :(

last chance noizers to tringler avec ma téte and recommend something HORRIBLE but pretend it is cool -- i leave tomorrow mornin

er tête i mean :|