19 Jun 2009

ON THE WAY TO ITALY

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When you read this I am sitting in our car, driving down to Italy to the Garda Lake as we do each year. As soon as I get internet connection, I will show up again !

18 Jun 2009

THURSDAY THIRTEEN - Vacation Quotes

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13 quotes about vacation/holidays

1. Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws

2. A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

3. A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

4. A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work

5. A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia

6. A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

7. The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation

8. On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.”

9. Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

10. A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

11. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

12. A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

13. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

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17 Jun 2009

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

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In our plane to Morocco, was a freshly married couple who went on honeymoon in Marrakesh. They didn't have time to change before the flight !

16 Jun 2009

MY WORLD


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15 Jun 2009

HUGE MOVIE STUDIO IN MOROCCO

I don't do FUN MONDAY today hosted by Lil Mouse because the theme was what happened on my birthday and as I was born in the middle of World War II in Germany, there was nothing but sad things happening and nothing for a funny Monday.

Instead I show you the movie studios of Ouarzazate (Morocco). It is located at an altitude of 1,160 m in the middle of a bare plateau, south of the High Atlas Mountains. To the south of the town is the desert.

At present, it hosts one of the largest movie studios in the world, Atlas Studios. Several historical movies were shot on those studios, including

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra,
Lawrence of Arabia,
The Man Who Would Be King,
Cleopatra,
Kundun,
Gladiator
and lately Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven and Babel. It was also the location of the November 26, 2006 episode of the television series The Amazing Race 10.

Our guide told us that when Bratt Pitt was there and heard that in some of the surrounding areas in the desert had no electricity, he payed for it. I thought this was a very generous gesture.

Of course they didn't let me in so I took pictures of what I could

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see the Ferrari in the background ?

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some of the remaining decor

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coming closer to the Ferrari

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it was a very bad fake !

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another funny looking decor