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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-77536699054435962262009-02-12T07:56:00.000+08:002009-02-12T13:00:55.871+08:00ProudlyFilipina.com joins Go Negosyo Women Entrepreneurs Summit<span class="insertedphoto"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.maandt.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SZOsKgoKCG8AABdlTrM1/gonegosyobabae.jpg?et=s7TDITjvSOgVDFQt%2CT8n3A&nmid=0" border="0"></span><h3>Babae, Yaman Ka Ng Bayan! (The biggest women negosyo event of the year!)</h3><br>March being Women’s Month, Go Negosyo is holding a summit for women entrepreneurs entitled Babae, Yaman Ka ng Bayan! The event will be held at the World Trade Center on March 2, 2009. A woman empowering event, the summit will include forums to help the Pinay reach her full potential as a person and as an entrepreneur.<br><br>Read more on how you can j<a href="http://www.proudlyfilipina.com/content/join-babae-yaman-ka-ng-bayan">oin us here.</a><br><br> <!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-67042328158238022602009-02-10T03:04:00.000+08:002009-02-10T08:05:28.615+08:00International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima Philippine Visit 2009 <a class="select" href="http://catholicpilgrim.org/?p=336">Link</a> <!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-38310122928655022092008-12-15T02:04:00.000+08:002008-12-15T07:06:06.677+08:00 Filipina: A Tribute to the Filipino Woman <span class="insertedphoto"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.maandt.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SUWRMQoKCG8AAGmvPjI1/filipinabook.gif?et=VhIEnDDsJyi5Tj%2CRilvB0A&nmid=0" border="0"></span><b>Filipina: A Tribute to the Filipino Woman</b> is a hard-bound coffee-table book paying tribute to the women of the Philippines that features striking photos of the Filipina captured in the different facets of her womanhood:a caring mother, a hobby enthusiast, a spiritual person, a determinate athlete, a professional or a simple citizen. <p> This book is a journey into the heart and soul of the Filipino woman, both famous and unknown. </p> <p>On every page, the reader will get a hint of why the country is so much indebted to its women : the virtues of the Filipina reveal themselves as we can see her create a piece of art, perform on stage or in the sports arena, harvest rice, demonstrate on the street, or simply attend to her children. </p> <p>The book was painstakingly produced by Louis Paul Heussaff, CEO of Supply Oilfield Services, as a testament to diversity’s feat, vividly presenting the different faces of a Filipina’s womanhood. No one can understand a filipina more than this french national married to a wonderful Pinay herself. </p> <p>A collection of over 200 photographs, a myriad faces of the Filipina are highlighted in this beautifully designed book. The Manila urbanite finds her place alongside women from the remote hills of Sabtang. Celebrities, artists, politicians and ordinary women are presented in these photographs which highlight the elegance, determination, devotion, sensibility and individuality of the Filipina. </p> <p> <i>The book is sold at Amazon for $295 (Php 14,500) but thru the kindess of the publisher, it will be made available to proudly filipina members only for Php 1,500 ($30) for a limited time. You can pre-order the book by contacting us <a href="http://www.proudlyfilipina.com/contact" target="_blank">here</a>, and you can pick this up during the launch on Dec. 27. For those outside Metro Manila or the Philippines, we shall inform you of the courier charges. </i> </p> <p> <i>After the <a href="http://www.proudlyfilipina.com/">proudlyfilipina.com </a> launch, the regular price will apply. </i> </p> <p> </p><br><!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-69717891459559211602008-08-30T05:36:00.000+08:002008-08-30T09:37:51.042+08:00Sugar overload? Swig some pure Neem Extract! Nature’s cure for Diabetes <p> <b>By: Rissa Calica-Gimenez</b></p> <p>One of the ancient home remedies for balancing high blood sugar or diabetes is just as close and down-to-earth as your garden. read more at <a href="http://www.proudlyfilipina.com">http://www.proudlyfilipina.com</a><br></p> <!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-28870517063761766422008-08-29T00:42:00.000+08:002008-08-29T05:01:01.953+08:00What's New at ProudlyFilipina.com <span class="insertedphoto"></span><span class="insertedphoto"></span><span class="insertedphoto"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.maandt.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SLcPFgoKCG8AAHS-gLE1/n23612901189-4385.jpg?et=fWhQmhAqOU0DUWF8pOsy8A&nmid=0" border="0"></span><br><br style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hello All Proud to be Filipinas!<br><br>Once again we would like to invite you to register and join the new online magazine and Social Network for Filipinas all over the world.<br><br>We have a lot of interesting reads, from Caren's "Second Generation Entrepreneurs" where she mentions that 420 women go out and start their own businesses and most of them are growing revenues, profits and creating more jobs than the businesses itself!<br><br>---to Rissa's new natural health find, "Sugar overload? Swig some pure Neem Extract! Nature’s cure for Diabetes" Find out the secret brew in ProudlyFilipina.com<br><br>Corrine Blogs about her craving for "Ensaymada" but she says that "When I think or say Ensaymada I do not mean I am craving for sweets but for the comfort of what I am missing" . Isn't that sweet!<br><br>You will all be inspired by Lella's Halo Halong Halo, A heavenly mix of things that make life worth savoring.<br><br>Join us and comment on the various ongoing Forum topics such as Living with Extended Family, Dealing with your mother in law, Top Attractions in Europe and many more! Create your own thread and let everyone else join the fun!<br><br>We hope to see you there. Just hit Register, type your name and email then get your free account activated.<br><br><br><a href="http://proudllyfilipina.com">http://www.proudlyfilipina.com</a><br><br></span> <!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1143394459635939792007-12-31T23:59:00.000+08:002007-04-30T03:19:47.935+08:00Visit My other blogsPlease visit my other blogs :<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://maanstravels.com">Maan's Travels</a></strong> (on Word Press): I am now using Word Press for my travel related blog, plese visit this for updates.<br /><br /><a href="http://spaandwellnessblog.com"><strong>Spa and Wellness Blog</strong></a> <span style="color:#ff0000;">(new)</span> : Experiences, Observations, Information on the spa and wellness Industry<br /><br /><a href="http://maanspilgrimsite.blogspot.com/">Maan's Pilgrim Site</a> : A collection of my various religious pilgrimage trips - photos, insights, experiences.<br /><br /><a href="http://mdtolentino.blogspot.com"><strong>Maan's Ramblings</strong></a> : This is actually my main blog discussing anything under the sun. Usually shows the various events I attended, reunions and parties to update schoolmates, friends and relatives as well as thoughts and experiences - my actual online journal.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://maandt.multiply.com/">Maan's Multiply Site</a>: Another ramblings and musings blog but I mainly use it for the photos. Easier to upload dozens of them.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-60220508058329713432007-07-17T15:06:00.000+08:002007-07-17T19:10:34.470+08:00Catholic Pilgrim Blog<P>I have moved my religious blog, <A href="http://catholicpilgrim.org">Catholic Pilgrim</A> to a new domain and this time using Wordpress. Please check it out at:</P> <P><A href="http://catholicpilgrim.org">http://catholicpilgrim.org</A></P> <P> </P><!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-66644361900096625752007-07-11T23:17:00.000+08:002007-07-12T03:30:20.998+08:00Serious Prattle : My new personal blog<P>I was so 'sawa' with my old personal ramblings site so decided to shift to a new one using word press. Yup, wordpress is a lot better than blogger so please do visit my new space at:</P> <P><A href="http://seriousprattle.com">http://seriousprattle.com</A></P> <P> </P> <P> </P><!-- multiply:no_crosspost --><p class='multiply:no_crosspost'></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155737035329947842006-08-16T22:02:00.000+08:002006-08-16T22:03:55.333+08:00An improvised RefThere was no refrigerator in our hotel room at Rocamadour but we needed to keep some food stuff cool so we placed them outside the balcony and the following morning, it was chilled! :)<br /><br /><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155569892362163572006-08-14T23:21:00.000+08:002006-08-14T23:38:12.363+08:00To the Grotto right after Check-inot<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0766.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0766.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0770.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0770.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0778.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0778.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0779.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0779.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155568519424850272006-08-14T23:03:00.000+08:002006-08-14T23:15:19.426+08:00Arrival at Lourdes<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0757.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0757.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0758.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0758.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0759.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0759.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0760.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0760.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155567264777477912006-08-14T22:48:00.000+08:002006-08-14T23:12:33.630+08:00Off to Lourdes via Toulouse<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0737.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0737.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0747.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0747.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0749.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0749.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0752.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0752.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0750.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0750.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0753.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0753.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0754.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0754.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0755.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0755.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155564739176148862006-08-14T22:11:00.000+08:002006-08-14T22:19:22.823+08:00Rocamadour Train<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0666.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0666.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0670.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0670.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0672.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0672.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0673.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0673.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0681.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0681.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0682.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0682.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0683.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0683.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0685.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0685.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155564528371856772006-08-14T22:06:00.000+08:002006-08-14T22:08:48.373+08:00roc 3 chateaux dinner<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0656.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0656.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0657.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0657.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0659.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0659.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0660.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0660.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155564088912820152006-08-14T22:00:00.000+08:002006-08-14T22:08:48.316+08:00Rocamadour: Chateau Level<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0636.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0636.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0638.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0638.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0639.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0639.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0643.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0643.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0640.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0640.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0645.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0645.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0647.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0647.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0652.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0652.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155543067406461402006-08-14T16:01:00.000+08:002006-08-14T16:11:07.413+08:00Rocamadour<A HREF='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/roc%20pcard.jpg'><IMG SRC='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/roc%20pcard.0.jpg' border=0 alt='' style='clear:all;float:left;margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor:hand'></A> <a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155534995522457922006-08-14T13:50:00.000+08:002006-08-16T22:02:01.913+08:00Dinner at the chateau level<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0533.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0533.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0535.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0535.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0536.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0536.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0537.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0537.jpg" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155523231575906732006-08-14T10:34:00.000+08:002006-08-16T21:59:28.763+08:00Rocamadour (Chapel of the Black Virgin, St Amadour)<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0518.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0518.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0517.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0517.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0503.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0503.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0504.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0504.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0507.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0507.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0509.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0509.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155504241413564132006-08-14T05:19:00.000+08:002006-08-16T21:44:05.490+08:00may 29 roc c<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0495.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0495.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0497.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0497.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0498.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0498.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155477842512693862006-08-13T22:03:00.000+08:002006-08-16T21:48:40.740+08:00Rocamadour: Sanctuary level (May 29, 2006)<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0476.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0476.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0478.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0478.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0479.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0479.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />At the sanctuary level overlooking the Dordogne valley.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0480.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0480.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The chateau on the third level taken from the sanctuary plain.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0485.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0485.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Copy of the <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0489.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0489.jpg" border="0" /></a> Miraculous black Madonna of Racamadour housed in the main basilica. <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0491.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0491.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0492.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0492.jpg" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155474873975946232006-08-13T21:12:00.000+08:002006-08-14T00:43:55.913+08:00May 29, 2006 : Rocamadour<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1600/rocahalo.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/320/rocahalo.jpg" border="0" /></a>Rocamadour is a historic shrine perched on a limestone cliff. It tells a story of religious belief and human endeavour.<br />Looking out over the gorge of the River Alzou, this city devoted to the Virgin Mary has remained for over nine hundred years a symbol of faith and hope.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0457.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0457.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We arrived Rocamadour after an hours drive from Brive (taxi cost around 75 euros) around late afternoon.<br /><br />We immediately checked in at Hotel Grand Beau Site, a best western hotel which apparently is the best lodging in the whole place with excellent location.<br /><br />Our room overlooks the Dordogne Valley.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0458.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0458.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We were famished so off we headed looking for a place to take some very late lunch. I think that was around 4pm or so.<br /><br /> I immediately took my seat outside the balcony of this resto but bebeth found it too cold and besides it started to rain so we ordered our pizza inside.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0461.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0461.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a> I immediately took my seat at the balcony of this pizza resto which overlooks the lush greenery of the valley but bebeth found it too cold and besdies it started to rain so just decided to take our meal inside.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0462.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0462.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0463.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0463.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I had to take a photo of our meal because I found the cutter unique - it's a tiny hammer!<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0465.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0465.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0466.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0466.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> We saw the tourist train go by while we finished our pizza. I took note of this for I made sure we will not leave the city without trying this.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0467.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0467.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0520.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0520.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We finished the late lunch around close to 530pm and apparently the only lift which goes up the sanctuary grounds closes at 6pm. We made a dash for it so as not to waste time and make the most of the 3 euros fee to use the lift, otherwise it will be a more than 200 step climb and I don't intend to do that.<br />The lift or ascenseur was built inside a cave which was just right across our hotel.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0521.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0521.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0522.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0522.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0468.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0468.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Right after we went around the next level we came back exactly 6pm and looked around the shops which were all starting to close except one - wher they sell lovely jewelries and stuff.<br />The quality was really good so we bought a couple of them.<br />We found out later that the man who operated the lift, who hails from Sardinia, is the husband of the woman who sold us the trinkets! Truly a small city :)<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0469.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0469.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1155473733300384782006-08-13T20:53:00.000+08:002006-08-13T21:10:08.543+08:00Brive La Gaillarde<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0446.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0446.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />From the Paris train station (think its Gare d' Austerlitz) we started to take the Eurail for Brive La Gaillarde, which from my research seems to be the nearest train stop to our main destination Rocamadour.<br /><br /> It took me quite a while trying to determine how to get to that mountain region. i learned there was a local train station but transport is unreliable and few so just to be sure I decided to stop at Brive and take a taxi to Roc.<br /><br />I tried reserving a cab from our hotel in Paris since from past travel reviews it seems one has to always pre-book. Fortunately though we were assured that it will not be a problem during that time.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0447.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0447.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Bebeth and I wanted to leave our luggage at the Brive station so we can take a look around the city. <br /><br />Unfortunately, the left luggage section was down at the basement without benefit of a lift nor an escalator. We wanted to preserve our energy for the weeks to come so opted to just take photos around the train station area.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0448.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0448.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We already reserved our seats here for our train to Lourdes. <br /><br /><strong>Brive</strong> which owes its nickname La Caillarde – the bold - to the courage displayed by its citizens on the many occasions when it was besieged, is an active town in the Correze alluvial plain, in the middle of the rich Brive basin, where market gardening and orchards prosper. <br /><br />Located at the crossroads of Bas-Limousin (Lower Limousin), Perigord and the Quercy causses (limestone plateaux), the town Is an important railway junction with a thriving book fair has taken place annually in the Georges Brassens hall since 1982. <br /><br />Brive is an excellent example of concentric urban expansion, with the old quarter St Martins Collegiate Church as its centre.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0449.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0449.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1154871662859368772006-08-06T21:39:00.000+08:002006-08-13T16:29:55.296+08:00Musee de Louvre (June 16, 2006)<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2089.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2089.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />My flight to NY was early evening but we still managed to insert a visit to Louvre. Bebeth has not yet seen it and I wanted to check out further the remaining tracks of the Da Vinci Novel.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>Note: This leg was after our almost 23rd day of travel around France, Belgium, Germany and Austria.<br /></em><br /></span></strong></span>I just had time to have a photo at the Inverted Pyramid, the three famous works of art Venus de Milo, Winged Victory of Samothrace and Mona Lisa of course plus the Virgin of the Rocks made famous by Dan Browns novel.<br /><br /><br />After an hour more or less I had to run back to the hotel, took a very quick lunch and ran off to the airport. Bebeth stayed on still her flight to manila was much later than mine.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2093.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2093.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>Royal Palace Grounds (Palais Royale)</strong><br /><br />The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) is said to be the largest museum in the world.<br /><br />Built as a fortified royal palace for <a title="Philip II of France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_France">Philip Augustus</a> in the centre of Paris and in the axis of the <a title="Champs-Élysées" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-Ãlysées">Champs-Élysées</a>, parts of it were first opened to the public as a museum on November 8, 1793, during the French Revolution. The central courtyard, occupied by the <a title="Louvre Pyramid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid">Louvre Pyramid</a> built in 1989, serves as the main entrance to the museum.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left">The Louvre, in its successive architectural metamorphoses, has dominated central Paris since the late 12th century. Built on the city's western edge, the original structure was gradually engulfed as the city grew. The dark fortress of the early days was transformed into the modernized dwelling of François I and, later, the sumptuous palace of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Here we explore the history of this extraordinary edifice and of the museum that has occupied it since 1793.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2095.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2095.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel</span></strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">The monument is a triumphal arch in Paris. It is located on the Place du Carrousel, just to the west of the Louvre. Designed by <a title="charles-percier" style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: groove" href="http://charles-percier.mindbit.com/">Charles Percier and Pierre Léonard Fontaine</a>, the arch was built between 1806-1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I as a pastiche of the Arch of Septimus Severus in Rome. It was commissioned to commemorate France's military victories in 1805. It was originally surmounted by the famous horses of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, looted by Napoleon, but these were returned there in 1815. They were replaced by a <a title="quadriga" href="http://quadriga.mindbit.com/">quadriga</a> sculpted by Baron <a title="françois-joseph-bosio" href="http://françois-joseph-bosio.mindbit.com/">François Joseph Bosio</a>, depicting Peace riding in a triumphal chariot, led by gilded Victories on either side; the composition commemorates the Restoration of the Bourbons following Napoleon's downfall.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2108.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2108.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Inverted Pyramid</span></strong><br /><br />I actually never noticed this the past times I have visited the museum but after reading and watching the Dan Brown Novel, I had to find where it was! </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid) is a skylight constructed in an underground shopping mall in front of the Museum. It may be thought of as a smaller sibling of the more famous <a title="Louvre Pyramid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid">Louvre Pyramid</a> proper, yet turned "upside down": its upturned base is easily overlooked from outside. Directly below the tip of the downwards-pointing glass pyramid, a small stone pyramid (about one meter/three feet high) is stationed on the floor, as if mirroring the larger structure above: The tips of the two pyramids almost touch.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2112.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2112.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a> La Pyramide Inversée was designed by architects <a title="I.M. Pei" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei">I.M. Pei</a>, <a class="new" title="Cobb Freed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cobb_Freed&action=edit">Cobb Freed</a> and Partners, and installed as part of the Phase II government renovation of the Louvre Museum. It was completed in 1993. In 1995, it was a finalist in the <a class="new" title="Benedictus Awards" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benedictus_Awards&action=edit">Benedictus Awards</a>, described by the jury as "a remarkable anti-structure … a symbolic use of technology … a piece of sculpture. It was meant as an object but it is an object to transmit light."</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br />The Inverted Pyramid rose to sudden fame in <a title="2003" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003">2003</a>–<a title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004">2004</a> because it figures prominently on the concluding pages of <a title="Dan Brown" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown">Dan Brown</a>'s international bestseller <a title="The Da Vinci Code" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code">The Da Vinci Code</a>. The author, or rather the protagonist of his novel, reads esoteric <a title="Symbolism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism">symbolism</a> into the two pyramids: The Inverted Pyramid is perceived as a <a title="Chalice" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalice">Chalice</a>, a feminine symbol, whereas the stone pyramid below is interpreted as a Blade, a masculine symbol: the whole structure could thus express the union of the <a title="Gender" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender">genders</a>. Moreover, Brown's protagonist concludes that the tiny stone pyramid is actually only the apex of a larger pyramid (possibly the same size as the inverted pyramid above).<br /></div><div align="left"><br />It should be noted, however, that the now-famous description provided in the novel is not in all respects accurate (irrespective of the claim that the stone pyramid "protrudes up through the floor" rather than simply sitting on top of the floor). On one point, Brown's description is indeed self-contradictory. He rightly describes the stone pyramid as being three feet tall and "almost touching" La Pyramide Inversée above, yet he also says that the tip of the pyramid is suspended "six feet above the floor": If so, there would necessarily be three feet between the tips of the pyramids, in which case they could hardly be described as "almost touching" one another. Actually the tip of La Pyramide Inversée is closer to the floor than six feet (rather, as noted above, 4.5 feet), so that it does indeed hover right above the tip of the three-feet stone pyramid below.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2116.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2116.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Winged Victory of Samothrace</span></strong><br /><br /><br />The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace.<br /><br />The sculpture was offered by the citizens of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval victory in the early second century BC.<br /><br />The monument combines a theatrical stance, vigorous movement, and billowing drapery of the Greek sculpture and refers to the Classical period-prefiguring the baroque aestheticism of the Pergamene sculptors. <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2117.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2117.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />According to the Louvre website <em>"This exceptional monument was unearthed in 1863 on the small island of Samothrace in the northwest Aegean. </em><br /><br /><em>It was discovered by Charles Champoiseau, French Vice-Consul to Adrianople (Turkey). The goddess of Victory (Nike, in Greek) is shown in the form of a winged woman standing on the prow of a ship, braced against the strong wind blowing through her garments. </em><br /><br /><em>With her right hand cupped around her mouth, she announced the event she was dedicated to commemorate. The colossal work was placed in a rock niche that had been dug into a hill; it overlooked the theater of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>This niche may also have contained a pool filled with water in which the ship appeared to float. Given its placement, the work was meant to be viewed from the front left-hand side; this explains the disparity in sculpting technique, the right side of the body being much less detailed. The highly theatrical presentation-combined with the goddess's monumentality, wide wingspan, and the vigor of her forward-thrusting body-reinforces the reality of the scene. "</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2123.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2123.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>Venus de Milo </strong><br /><br />Sometimes known as Aphrodite, godess of love, the graceful statue has intrigued and fascinated many since its discovery on the island of Melos in 1820.</div><p>Some people wonder if she is Aphrodite, who was often portrayed half-naked, or the sea goddess Amphitrite, who was venerated on Milo.</p><p>The sculpture reflects research during the late Hellenistic Period - basically classical , with new features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2121.1.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2121.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a> <em>" The Venus de Milo was discovered in 1820 on the island of Melos (Milo in modern Greek) in the south-western Cyclades. The Marquis de Rivière presented it to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the following year. </em><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><em><em>The statue won instant and lasting fame. Essentially two blocks of marble, it is comprised of several parts which were sculpted separately (bust, legs, left arm and foot) then fixed with vertical pegs, a technique which was fairly common in the Greek world (especially in the Cyclades, where this work was produced around 100 BC). The goddess originally wore metal jewelry — bracelet, earrings, and headband — of which only the fixation holes remain. The marble may have been embellished with (now faded) polychromy. The arms were never found. "</em></em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2129.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2129.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Virgin of the Rocks</strong><br /></span><br />One of the minor paintings in Louvre but took a center stage when the novel Da Vinci code came out.<br /><br />The museum curator in this novel kept a most important key at the back of this painting.<br /><br />This work of art was commissioned by the Confraternité of the Immaculate Conception for a vault of the church San Francesco Grande in Milan. It seems however that there were two such paintings done and the original one maybe kept in London.<br /><br />The second version (that in London) would have been painted under the control of Léonard by Ambrogio de Predis between 1495 and 1508 to replace the original one.<br /><br />An ambiguous iconography The comparison of the two versions of the Virgin to the rocks shows well ambiguities of the iconographic program of the first, which was commented on much by the specialists.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2131.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2131.jpg" border="0" /></a> The identity of the characters can indeed appear obscure because of absence of attributes and the preeminence of the small Jean saint, placed at the sides of the Virgin, designated by the finger of the Gabriel archangel and blessed by Jesus.<br /><br />The traditional desert where the meeting held on the two children of divine design is, is replaced by a supernatural decoration of cave and rocks, water and plants.<br /><br />It is the mystery of the Incarnation which is celebrated, through the role of Mary and that of the Precursor, which is considered according to a tradition florentine a playmate of Jesus, who was already aware of the sacrifice to come.<br /><br />This prefiguration of Passion seems also contained in the representation of the chasm at the edge of which the Child and in the vegetation symbolic system is held which surrounds it (aconite, palms, iris).<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2133.0.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2133.1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a> <strong>Mona Lisa</strong><br /><br /><em><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del GiocondoBetween 1503 and 1506</span></strong></em><br /><br /><br />Unlike the past years, the Mona Lisa painting is now well guarded and fenced from the ever growing curious crowd.<br /><br />Photos are a no no unlike before but of course I still managed to steal a shot :) </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2135.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2135.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Under the Pyramid</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>(Napoleon Hall)</strong> </span><br /><br />Escalator going up the 1st floor where the more popular masterpieces.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2136.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2136.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The <strong>Louvre Pyramid</strong> is a large glass pyramid commissioned by then French president François Mitterrand.<br /><br />The pyramid itself reaches a height of 20.6 metres (about 70 feet); its square base has sides of 35 metres (115 feet). The pyramid covers the Louvre entresol and forms part of the new entrance into the museum<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2137.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2137.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a> All over this vast complex, one can see the influence of the pyramid.<br /><br />From the outside fountain....<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2138.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2138.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br />from all sides.....<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2120.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2120.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Succeding photos taken inside the main museum, some shots stolen for in many plac<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2125.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2125.jpg" border="0" /></a>es photography is foridden.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2126.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2126.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_2134.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_2134.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9888192.post-1154870143154103782006-08-06T21:12:00.000+08:002006-08-06T21:26:49.646+08:00Jardin de Luxembourg<p align="center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0311.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0311.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br />Jardin de Luxembourg seems to be the most popular Park in Paris. It is located near Sorbonne University in the 5th district.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1600/IMG_0327.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0327.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />At the center of the park is the Grand Bassin, an octagonal pond where children can rent small remote-controlled boats.<br /><br />Around the pond are nice lawns and alleys, all laid out in a geometrical pattern. Numerous statues including the Statue of the patroness of Paris, Saint-Geneviève - adorn the park. This is also one of the parks where you can just get hold of one of the many chairs and take it to the exact spot where you want to sit.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0312.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0312.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0315.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0315.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/1024/IMG_0316.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6371/437/400/IMG_0316.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Palais du Luxembourg was constructed at the north end of the Jardin du Luxembourg. It was built for Marie de Medicis, mother of Louis XIII who was of Italian descent thus the architect, Salomon de Brosse designed the palace in a Florentine style. <br /><br />During the French Revolution, the palace served as a prison and as the headquarters of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. It currently houses the French Senate.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14885287556715117851noreply@blogger.com0