Miss L. Toe

"Miguel Cruz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > NoNameAtAll <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > Thanks for sharing your experiences. Sounds like you had a nice little
    > > adventure. With regard to protecting bags against theft while traveling,
I
    > > always wrap the strap around my ankle while I'm sitting so no one can
    > > swipe it. My wife always thinks I'm being paranoid, but now I can tell
her
    > > your story to redeem myself.
    > I do the same thing, and nobody's ever stolen my bag either. I think we're
    > onto something.
    > miguel

That makes 3 of us :-)

B Vaughan

On Tue, 25 May 2004 12:09:45 +0100, "Miss L. Toe"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"Miguel Cruz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    >> NoNameAtAll <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> > Thanks for sharing your experiences. Sounds like you had a nice little
    >> > adventure. With regard to protecting bags against theft while traveling,
    >I
    >> > always wrap the strap around my ankle while I'm sitting so no one can
    >> > swipe it. My wife always thinks I'm being paranoid, but now I can tell
    >her
    >> > your story to redeem myself.
    >> I do the same thing, and nobody's ever stolen my bag either. I think we're
    >> onto something.
    >> miguel
    >That makes 3 of us :-)

4

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Barbara Vaughan
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Robert Stephens

B Vaughan wrote:
    > On Tue, 25 May 2004 12:09:45 +0100, "Miss L. Toe"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>"Miguel Cruz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >>news:[email protected]...
    >>>NoNameAtAll <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>Thanks for sharing your experiences. Sounds like you had a nice little
    >>>>adventure. With regard to protecting bags against theft while traveling,
    >>I
    >>>>always wrap the strap around my ankle while I'm sitting so no one can
    >>>>swipe it. My wife always thinks I'm being paranoid, but now I can tell
    >>her
    >>>>your story to redeem myself.
    >>>I do the same thing, and nobody's ever stolen my bag either. I think we're
    >>>onto something.
    >>>miguel
    >>That makes 3 of us :-)
    >
    >
    > 4
    >

Shoot, I do the same thing here at home.

-Robert

Colin McGarry

"Padraig Breathnach" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
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    > "Colin McGarry" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >You seem to have missed out a must in Europe - Normandy
    > >.
    > >Mont St Michel - the eighth wonder of the world
    > >Giverny - Monets home and garden
    > >Honfleur - a XVIc port - suspended in time.
    > >Bayeux - one of the most pitoresque towns in normandy and home to the
Bayeux
    > >tapestry.
    > >The d Day landing beaches - an impressive visit.
    > >Caen - The capital of William the conqueror.
    > >Deauville - the 21st arrondissement of Paris on the normandy coast.
    > >
    > I thought you were doing well until you threw in Caen. Two churches,
    > the remains of the chateau: that's it.
Caen is a nice town to visit. It was destroyed by 80% by the allies before
it was "liberated"
It was rebuilt taking care to set the surviving monuments up to there best
advantage.
You can spend a whole day visiting Caen with out seeing much of the "new"
Start at the Abbey au Dames - The church is one of the purest romanesque
chuches surviving. The convent can be visited. That's VIIc. It's now the
Regions administrative center.
Go down the road that leads to the Vauguex - one of the few areas that
wern't bombed. This leads into the Chateau. There are the walls round the
chateau from which one has great views of the town. Panels explain various
aspects of the Chateau. Just in front of the chateau is St Pierre cathedral.
A fine flamboyant XIIIc cathedral. Before gong down rue St Pierre notice St
Jeab church wghich is leaning because Caen is built on a marshy area between
three rivers.
Follow the panel trail through the town to Abbey aux Hommes. The monastery
can be visited. It's now the town hall.
And the day has flown by.
    > An then Deauville, the epitome of hauteur! Its principal merit is that
    > it makes Trouville seem warm and friendly.
Deauville is snoby. But, it was made from nothing on mud flats in 1860 by
the half brother of Napoleon III. He and his fellow financiers built the
most important things. the casino, the race course and the station. then
sold off plots to individuals to build their villas. Some of the villas that
survive from this epoque show great flights of fancy. The Villa Strasburger
was built by Rothschild and at one time owned by Singer of the sewing
machines.
Citroen used to gamble at the casino and gave a car to a croupier once.

Deauville is well worth a visit. But eat and stay in Trouville.
    > --
    > PB
    > The return address has been MUNGED

Geotek

    > Caen is a nice town to visit. It was destroyed by 80% by the allies before
    > it was "liberated"
    > It was rebuilt taking care to set the surviving monuments up to there best
    > advantage.

I hope that "liberated" doesn't carry just a hint of sarcasm. That's sad.
I would think freedom and liberty would indeed be more important than brick
and stone, even beautiful brick and stone.

Jenn

geotek wrote:
    >>Caen is a nice town to visit. It was destroyed by 80% by the allies before
    >>it was "liberated"
    >>It was rebuilt taking care to set the surviving monuments up to there best
    >>advantage.
    >
    >
    > I hope that "liberated" doesn't carry just a hint of sarcasm. That's sad.
    > I would think freedom and liberty would indeed be more important than brick
    > and stone, even beautiful brick and stone.
    >
    >

no kidding -- the hint that France would be better off under the Nazis
is odd to say the least