I watched with interest this new video from YouTube channel Tasting History. It talks of the food on the Orient Express. Not so much for the food (although it does look yummy) as for the history of the world's most iconic train, which I knew fairly little about. Anyway, I had to share it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Friday 19 April 2024
Dining on The Orient Express
Renoir en Irlande
Thursday 18 April 2024
Guinness and Patience
Sous-marin
Wednesday 17 April 2024
A New Amadeus
Well, some good news for the Mozart fan that I am: there will be a new version of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. Not a new movie, but a new TV series. I found the info in an article on ClassicFM about the casting. I don't know anything apart from that, but I'm intrigued and excited. I hope I can find a platform to watch it, when it will be released. A part of me is anxious: I hope they don't mess it up. The film was already a brilliant transfer from stage to screen, turning the play into a TV series is probably going to be an at least equally challenging task. But if nothing else, there will be great music to go with the drama. And the source material is solid.
Rose anglaise
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Things I buy at Mountain Warehouse
My readers know that I love Mountain Warehouse, even though I'm not exactly into outdoor sports. But it's always useful. For clothes, for one, especially warm clothes, especially socks. I have been buying lots of clothes for Wolfie there: a coat, socks (well of course), a water bottle, and some odd things. More recently, just before our last holiday, it was... travel toothbrushes. I love buying travel toothbrushes before holidays, it feels like a inconspicuous little ritual before the big day.
Premier orage, première grêle
Cet après-midi, nous avons eu droit à notre premier orage: le tonnerre a grondé. Et en plus, il est tombé de la grêle. C'est une première cette année, un brin tôt. Mais bon. J'imagine que c'est ça, le mois d'avril. J'aime bien la grêle et les orages, tant que je suis confortablement à l'intérieur. Je l'attendais avec impatience: les nuages noirs l'annonçaient déjà.
Titanic Belfast
Le Harfang de l'Ulster
Monday 15 April 2024
The Belle of Belfast City
You might know this song as I'll Tell Me Ma and I know I shared it before. I first heard it in a pub in Liverpoolon Saint Paddy's and I fell in love with it. Of course, as it is often called The Belle of Belfast City, I listened to it prior to and during our holiday in Belfast. Wolfie now knows some of the lyrics and has been humming it for the last few days. Ironically enough, I haven't heard much if any Irish music during our time there. I'm sharing the version by Possibly Irish, an American group from Oregon, because I quite like it. And also because I'm possibly Irish myself, sort of. I want to blog into more details about it, but apparently, some of my ancestors were Ulster Scots, so it is very possible that among my great, grandmothers, there were a few belles of Belfast City. I'd like to think so, ayway.
Crabe et homard
Sunday 14 April 2024
Titanic in Lego
"Vivre dans ses valises"
Ma mère utilise souvent cette expression quand elle parle de voyages. C'est à dire toujours en déplacement. Mais je crois que l'expression peut fonctionner dans un autre contexte. Comme vous le savez depuis hier, nous sommes de retour de Belfast. Or, pendant quelques jours encore, je vais m'habiller avec les vêtements encore dans mes valises. Je vais aussi les défaire lentement pour redécouvrir nos souvenirs nord-irlandais. Et j'aime bien ce moment de retour de vacances, quand nous sommes à la maison, mais un peu en décalage mental, voire spirituel, quand l'endroit visité est encore en nous.
Saturday 13 April 2024
Back from Belfast City
If you were worried about my silence (well, you never know) I was on holiday. And I am back. My family and I went to Belfast. Like in the song, which I sang over and over again, enough for Wolfie to hum it. It was my wife's idea. So we were not officially in a different country, but truly, by any practical means, North Ireland truly is a different country than the one we live in. I have been to the Republic of Ireland before and, while North Ireland is sort of separated from it and far less Catholic, you can definitely feel the Celtic roots. I will blog more about my experience in the upcoming days, but we all enjoyed it and sometimes I felt almost at home there.
Riz aux crevettes
Tuesday 9 April 2024
September Cottage
Avril: le dilemne
Vous connaissez le proverbe: "En avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil". Bon ben, c'est ça qui est ça. En fait, non, il a fait doux pendant quelques jours, maintenant c'est moins le cas, ça a changé en une journée. C'est le dilemne habituel: enlever des vêtements ou non, s'habiller plus léger ou pas? Je garde mon manteau d'hiver, rien que par prudence. Et le pire, c'est que je n'ai même pas envie de m'habiller plus légèrement. Et vous?
Monday 8 April 2024
Eclipse
I think this song is in order today... Oh and long live Pink Floyd. The greatest rock band ever.