Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maldives.... !! Hum... good place for diving, aside some currents, of course ;-) Did you go there previuolsy? Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Thurman" <wendythurman en gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug en leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide > He was spot on. Particularly this part: > > "...Who travel in groups and herds and troupes > Of varying breeds and sexes > Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals > And the clicking of Roliflexes." > > The recent trip I took to Provence was an organized "workshop". With the > exception of the Cours in Arles I didn't really enjoy it at all and felt > like the characiture of a Japanese tourist; it was actually embarrassing > at > times. A horde of people, heavily armed with cameras, being lectured to, > herded about, told to be at place X no later than time Y, and such other > distractions. This is not a good way to spend one's time off and I won't > do > it again. > > Next break is going to be the Maldives on my own or perhaps with one dive > buddy. > > Wendy > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jim Shulman <jshul en comcast.net> wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> Noel Coward had the answer: >> >> Travel they say improves the mind, >> An irritating platitude, which frankly, entre nous, >> Is very far from true. >> >> Personally I've yet to find that longtitude and latitude >> can educate those scores of monumental bores >> Who travel in groups and herds and troupes >> Of varying breeds and sexes >> Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals >> And the clicking of Roliflexes. >> >> Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel >> When the right people stay back home? >> What compulsion compels them and who the hell tells them >> To drag their bags to Zanzibar, instead of staying quietly in Omaha >> The Taj Mahal and the Grand Canal >> And the sunny French Rivera >> Would be less oppressed if the Middle West >> Would settle for somewhere rather nearer >> Please do not think that I criticize or cavel at a genuine urge to roam >> But why, oh why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay >> back >> home >> And mind their business >> when the right people stay back home >> with television >> when the right people stay back home >> I'm merely asking >> why the right people stay back home >> >> Just when you think romance is ripe it rather sharply dawns on you >> That each sweet serenade is for the tourist trade >> Any attractive native type who resolutely fawns on you >> Will give as his address American Express >> There isn't a rock between Bangkok and the beaches of Hispianola >> That does not recoil from suntan oil and the gurgle of Coca-Cola >> >> Why do the wrong people travel, travel travel >> When the right people stay back home? >> What explains this mass mania to leave Pennsylvania >> And clack around like flocks of geese >> Demanding dry martinis on the isles of Greece >> In the smallest street, where the gourmets meet, >> They invariably fetch up >> And it's hard to make them accept a steak >> that isn't served rare and smeared with ketchup >> It would take years to unravel, ravel, ravel >> Every impulse that makes them roam. >> But why, oh why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay >> back >> home >> And eat hot doughnuts >> when the right people stay back home >> with all that lettuce >> when the right people stay back home >> I sometimes wonder >> why the right people stay back home >> >> Why do the wrong people travel, travel travel >> When the right people stay back home? >> What peculiar obsessions inspire those processions >> Of families from Houston Tex >> with all those cameras around their necks? >> They will take a train >> Or an aeroplane >> For an hour on the Costa Brava, >> And they'll see Pompeii >> On the only day >> That it's up to its ass in molten lava! >> Millions of tourists are churning up the gravel >> While they gaze at St. Peter's Dome, >> But why oh WHY do the wrong people travel >> When the right people stay at home." >> and play canasta >> when the right people stay back home >> won't someone tell me >> why the right people stay back home >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net en leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul <lug-bounces%2Bjshul>=comcast.net@ >> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim >> Nichols >> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:43 PM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide >> >> Good photo, Jim, but I don't see a happy visitor anywhere. Why do people >> punish themselves like this? >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul en comcast.net> >> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug en leica-users.org> >> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:18 PM >> Subject: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide >> >> >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/tour+guide+sm.jpg.html >> > >> > >> > >> > Leica M3, Summilux 50, Efke 50 >> > >> > >> > >> > Jim Shulman >> > >> > Wynnewood, PA >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information