Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The general idea of England held by most Germans is similar - thick fogs every second day of the year (when it's not raining), Whether the US opinion is based on hundreds of thriller movies and whodunits, which nearly always had fog as a prerequisite for murderous misdeeds, I'm not sure, but a German series of Edgar Wallace thrillers (dozens of them, mostly like bad B-movies, and nearly all starring Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre etc.)as a villain, or at least a perfect prime suspect, managed to root the fog indelibly in the minds of the German public. The only fogs I regularly come up against are the sea-frets found on the North Sea coast - and they are always the precursor to a wonderfully hot afternoon. It is also interesting to note how many people in the German media also insist that British food is the worst in the world - and that without ever having visited the country - it's not as if German cuisine is much to write home about (with some glorious and delicious exceptions). Douglas Frank Dernie wrote: > One of the things I remember from my first visit to the US in 1970 is > my astonishment that every American I met mentioned the fog in > England. I was 20 then and had only experienced a handful of foggy > days in my life! I guess the English weather is as inaccurately > portrayed by Hollywood as everything else British! > Graham's pictures are typical of the rolling countryside of much of > the UK, not just Northamptonshire where I lived for a few years. > Frank > > On 26 Mar, 2006, at 19:49, Walt Johnson wrote: > >> Graham: >> >> Always thought your part of the world was foggy, damp and cold. Too >> many Basil Rathbone movies in my youth. :-P You make it look damn >> inviting.... >> >> Walt >> >> GeeBeesPaw wrote: >> >>> Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : red filter : Ilford Delta 400 >>> >>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/06050.htm >>> >>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/06051.htm >>> >>> --Graham >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >