Incidentally, just to prove how incredibly useful it is to know a foreign language, and how much insight it gives you into a different culture, this pun (the poodle in the bow tie):
< http://www.web-options.com/Causse/content/_6236762_large.html> is just as bad in English as it is in French! In English it would be something like "I knot think of anyone but you". 2,000 years of civilisation. Montaigne, Madame de Lafayette, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, La Bruyere, Voltaire, Choderlos de la Clos, Diderot, Rousseau, Stendhal, Rimbaud, Flaubert, Camus, Ionesco, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Yourcenaar, Duras, Rambaud, Cantona - all these were mere preparation for "Je noeud pense qu'a toi" > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob W [mailto:p...@web-options.com] > Sent: 07 July 2010 07:58 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: Causse celeb > > Thanks Christine. Yes, it was a very enjoyable and interesting trip. > > Thanks to everyone else who commented on the various galleries and > shots - much appreciated. > > Bob > > > > > Gosh, that's terrific, Bob. I love the photo and the story. Bob, > I've > > looked at your other galleries and they're great. I enjoyed seeing > the > > lush > > scenery. Must have been some trip. Thanks for sharing and glad you > > had a > > great time. Cheers, Christine > > > > > > > > > M. Christian Avesque is the last paid shepherd on the Causse > Mejean. > > He is > > > the subject of a recently-published book called Un Dernier Berger, > > which I > > > bought as a souvenir of my trip to the causse: < > > > http://www.amazon.fr/Un-dernier-berger-Renaud- > > Dengreville/dp/2812600403 >. > > > It's a beautiful book with superb photos which really capture the > > place - > > > worth having a look at if you ever get the chance. > > > > > > I saw M. Avesque when I cycled on to the causse to visit the herd > of > > > Przewalski's horses that they have up there, but he was talking to > a > > group > > > of other tourists so I didn't want to stop and bother him a second > > time, > > > and > > > only took this snap and one or two variants. Interesting chap > though, > > > according to the book. Apart from an engineering course in a nearby > > town, > > > and a spell in Algeria on military service during the war there, he > > seems > > > to > > > have been up there with his (or rather, not his) sheep all his > life. > > > > > > < http://www.web-options.com/Berger.jpg > > > > > > > Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
