Palace of Versailles - 014 Surreal English & French

The emperor Claudius utilized the town as his base for the Roman intrusion of Britain in AD 43.Some 1,800 years later, in 1805, Napoleon massed his Grande Armee in Boulogne to get intoEngland. However the supremacy of Britain's Royal Navy protected against any type of such realinfiltration from occurring. As well as that was real once more in WWII, when a mooted invasion byHitler's forces was manifestly impossible considering that the Royal Navy ruled the surges and theRoyal Flying force ruled the skies

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010 Paris C'est la Vie.

Yes, madame, I make certain you're not amused. Excuse? It's mademoiselle, is it? You're not wed,either. No surprise you're not amused.

Here we are faced by gilded entrances and high fence that block our method right into the innercourtyard and also require us to left turn and also purchase our entry tickets.

We are taking each country consequently, beginning with England. And we kicked everything off byutilizing shanks horses and also train to take a trip to London. It was a sort of reconnoiter, if you like...

Although the arch was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to celebrate his triumphes, he wasdeposed just before the arc was finished. In reality, it wasn't completed until 1836, long afterBonaparte was gone.

This is one first blush perspective from the base of the Arc de Triomphe, which is the central hub fortwelve radiating extensive opportunities. Driving down among them, we claim sayonara to Paris andspeed towards probably one of the most opulent as well as breath taking royal residences on theplanet.

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It was a tiring however exciting day. and also as its doors are being locked, the electronic camera ofthe excited anonymous photographer is already videotaping the bustling scene of people streamingto the entry of the palace's outer courtyard.

You can not keep enough clean water to wash the crap off, you state?

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Messieur, your mug has runneth over. Possibly you and the children both have to remove.

(Source: ibid., Bones Apart trusts to his confessor, Father Marshal, that his fight with the containerwas due to quaffing the highly addictive Sparkling Red Republic tag of tread-your-own wine - doingthis in an overindulge of no much less compared to 128 bottles.).

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His Majesty Louis XIV proposals you adieu and also many thanks you for the euros ... using theunderground train to deposit us near sufficient to stroll to the Eiffel Tower. After Bob and also theEnglish Oracle returned from using the tower's elevator the almost 1,000 feet to the leading to gazeright into thick fog, we strolled to the neighboring stream Seine and went travelling on a ferryboat.Of program, we just had to get off to go and go to the magnificent Cathedral of Notre-Dame, on thefinancial institution of the Seine.

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The Arc de Triomphe is etched with the names of the Marshals who commanded French troopsduring Napoleon's time; and also it additionally has actually etched after it the names of the 128battles combated by Napoleon's republic

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Yes, mademoiselle, you as well as the kid are going to grumble bitterly regarding the poop. I do not

blame you.

Don't bother, child, however I presume them's the breaks in a nudist nest.

What, you'revisiting throttle the little pooing bastards?

Below they could however hear the sound as they gaze across amazed at something or other. I haveto be material with photographing the substantial painting of Napoleon crowning Josephine asEmpress of France. Nobody else here seemed to have actually observed it.

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But sufficient of my awful drivel. Today we're leaving Paris to drive to Normandy. However, headingyet still in the metropolis we're visiting make a couple of detours so regarding complete ourexperiencing of factors French. I'll keep my horrible commentary quite short. Nevertheless, I willscrupulously mention any type of referrals, meticulously adhering to the scared encyclicals in theDead Sea Scrolls Design Guidebook that detail the turning-to-salt procedures for usage on defrockedscholars. Must such encyclicals drift considerably from the Roman Army's standing orders for theguidance by the Ninth Multitude of the style of gladiatorial verse contests created to death in Gaul,such deviation will certainly be kept in mind. C'est la compete!

Yes, Messieur, I do believe the mademoiselle in the amusing hat is providing you the eye.

006 Around the Thames.

That would certainly think the size of this vista unless they viewed it on their own or have had a bo-peep at this photograph. It's rhetorical! Do not answer - this is France

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Chateau de Versailles

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Magnanimously, we decided on to not reside in bitter memories of imperial slights in the past days.Instead, we moved by auto for France. Just like all each one of our expeditions, it demandedbeginning as quickly as it was light adequate to avoid and afterwards not placing our feet up till wellnight ... the daylight hrs in England and France during late-autumn as well as winter months arerather brief. As well as the light completely digital photography is quick fleeting and also extremelyquick. It can be stated that currently of year, England and also Europe are an extremely darkencounter.

Surreal English & & French

. The Queen's bedchamber is impossible to miss out on. She shed her head, so she's not here.

Nah! He's in a chariot; and also all of them are too huge to be anything else yet useless gods. Withpigeons and seagulls resting and also crapping on their heads.

Now permit's hit the trail for the mommy of all royal residences, the.

Thanks to the magic of locating a specific course devoid of website traffic, we are quicklytransported right here to the famous Arc de Triomphe. It was commissioned by Emperor NapoleonBonaparte which, after his Austerlitz success on December Second 1805, declared to his soldiers:"You will return residence with arches of victory".

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012 Paris: the Louvre.

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002 Back Roads & & Nation Lanes.

It is Sunday early morning, merely after dawn, Thankfully, right here the heart of Paris is not chokedwith grid locked web traffic as well as attacked by blaring horns. We could escape with no hassles atall.

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001 London by Foot & & Train.

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Like these folks equipped with cams and also posing for shooting cameras, we have actually chosento inspect out the globe well-known royal residence grounds prior to eyeballing the within thechateau. Merely check out this astounding sight!

013 Paris: the Louvre, proceeded.

The towering English Oracle, the small Sergeant-Major of the Royal Leprechaun Military and alsothe confidential professional photographer hobbling on raw feet with each other make a formidabletrio to go and look into the palace. Perhaps to form a point of view as to exactly how the Chateau deVersailles as compares to Windsor Castle as well as Buckingham Royal residence.

Could this be just one of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse whose concerned earth to offer the fournags a beverage while the other 3 riders are propping up the bar in the long run is Nigh sky pub?.

011 Paris: Street Opera.

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It is an unique search in that each of the 634 pictures in this series has actually been changed. it is abig painted canvas. Do not ask why - this is France. Could this be the dazzling palace that blowsstolid Windsor Castle and shabby Buckingham Royal residence right into the weeds?

(Get: in The Predictions of the Dead Sea Scrolls passing reference is made of a strange oracle calledWikipedia whose opinions are questioned far much less commonly than they should be; thatpronounces that a Gaulish Emperor with bones apart passes with accomplishment to defeat,discussing to his soldiers: "I was arched.").

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Exactly what's that, madame? If you could get the damned pigeons you would certainly slam theirminds out, would certainly you? Oh, dear

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Right here a map with accompanying important information are photographed, to be checked out atrecreation in the house. Possibly. At some time. Possibly never. Such is life.

Pushed by enduring unharmed our initial journey from our online at Sunningdale, we then journeyedby car along alleyways as well as country lanes to see just what the heck is within a number of hoursreach of home. We reached see bunches of tight bars with pints and pints of frothing cool beer ...oops, I indicate hot chocolate in hamlets and communities that quickly floated by in a hot chocolate

haze but I kind of remember Henley-on-something-or-other, Oxford University's bicycle racks as wellas Guildford unavailing search of Charles Dickens. In the complying with expedition we varied muchfarther, driving to Dover and catching a train to St Ives in Cornwall. Just because, actually. We hadno plan in thoughts aside from to go appearance.

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This is difficult not to notice, though some are providing it their finest shot to dismiss the Master'sbedchamber. Not that it matters. Louis XIV is missing at work.

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Oh, dear, an additional direct smash hit! Madame, I did alert you not to seek out. And also now youhave actually knocked both jars over.

Ah, madame, you've sent for a bow. I'm sorry, I suggested mademoiselle. Yes, sirens that arecrapped on do not ordinarily get wed. You're visiting kick Cupid's butt all the same, you think?

No, mademoiselle, I do not have to purchase your clean water to wash off the crap. I put on a hat. Ihear you train the pigeons.

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Listed below the arch is the fire of remembrance above the Burial place of the Unidentified Soldier,that was hidden right here on 11th November 1920 - he represents the 1,500,000 French soldiersthat died throughout War of the nations I.

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The car is parked ... This has been mostly achieved using Picasa but sometimes by additionallyutilizing Microsoft Paint as well to adjust the pictures. Not a solitary photo is as the eye wouldusually view it.

007 Trafalgar Square

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As well as this shocked summery personage, whoever she might be, is reclining on sheaths of wheat,together with similarly slack as well as shocked cherubs.

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Ah, enough of the wild life exterior. Allow's look around below in awe as we pay attention to thehand-held tape recorders telling us regarding sights. There have to be something funny on the audiodue to the fact that Bob is giggling. My damned audio apartment doesn't function - it's French.

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We have actually payed the piper and called the Let's go inside tune. Ahead, what looks anenvironment-friendly wall with clinging ivy is an optical illusion ... A total amount of 72 of thesecompositions - surreal and also otherwise, as well as containing just over 1,000 photographs - werededicated to Western Australia. One more 58 photo photo compositions - surreal as well as non-surreal, and also comprised of some 1,800 images - focused on America..

That's it, kiddo, blow your very own damned horn for help. No person else will.

Wow! This is yet part of the Royal Church.

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(Get: ibid., Bones Apart proclaiming to his soldiers: "I'm out of right here.").

Sufficient of this gibberish by me! It's absolute rot, obviously! Suffice to state that we checked outthe restaurants as well as the old component of Boulogne and also had a fascinating time checkingout. Then it was a lengthy drive to Paris and a very early evening at our hotel. Yet brilliant as well asvery early the complying with morning we were up and also at 'em ... known simply as, The Louvre.In spite of the time we invested there, we only saw a little of the extensive collections collected

there. Eventually we truly need to return

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004 Windsor Castle

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I believe that for some time people have viewed sufficient of my take on slivers of experiencing lifein Western Australia and also North America. As a full modification, permit's fearlessly have a bit ofa glimpse at just what it's like to interact in just what I've loosely termed as the Surreal English & &French encounter.

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Did an individual state, Permit there be light! Wow!

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009 Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Once we would certainly gone back to Sunningdale and recuperated from that coastal ordeal, we

avoided to Windsor Castle. It is not simply Europe's biggest yet is actually additionally the oldest andbiggest occupied castle around the world. We put our feet up for a day or two then captured thetrain to Waterloo Terminal to go checking out the Westminster area, consisting of the knock-you--socks-off Abbey. A couple of days later we captured the train right into London once more to goview the bustling stream Thames area. Some days then, we again captured the train to London, thismoment to trek on raw feet all concerning Trafalgar Square and after that route march toBuckingham Palace. Liz and also Phil didn't welcome us in for a cuppa.

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008 Chunneling the Network.

Having crossed under the English Stations through the Chunnel, we drove to historic Boulogne, thelargest fishing port in France, otherwise the whole of Europe. As was the next one when we foundthe Academie Nationale De Musique - recognized as The Opera. There we viewed two brass bands ofbuskers going head to head on the actions of the Academie. It was a blast! Yet conveniently theemphasize so much was our next journey right into the milling bunch that is Paris. We investedmany hours in the gallery to overshadow all galleries - on the planet prominent Musee du Louvre ...significantly a case of tentatively dipping our big toe into the dirty waters of the English encounter.

Now allow's not hang with regards to reviewing blood-spattered maps, Sergeant-Major! The EnglishOracle is currently leading the means with the very first set of entrances. Splendour beckons.