[Leica] St. Emilion Memories

[Robert Baron]

Well, Douglas, so much for my memory of where I made it, and of course I
have no memory of your cat or its progenitors.  Jim is right:  The memory
is the second thing to go, and I can't remember what was the first.

I do remember the name of the restaurant/hotel Plaisence.  At the time it
was reputed to be the best restaurant in St. Emilion but we stayed pretty
close to our temporary home in Listrac-de-Dureze (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listrac-de-Dur%C3%A8ze) and couldn't seem to
fit it in to our schedule.

--Bob

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Nice shot Bob, but while it was taken from a high vantage point, it's not
> taken from the King's Tower, but instead is taken from the wall/railing
> beside the church steeple and the restaurant/hotel now known as the
> Hostellerie de Plaisence and is looking down on the Place de l'Eglise
> Monolithe where I've had many a pleasant evening over the years. You can
> see the King's Tower at the top right side of your photograph.
>
> I had a look in yours for either the father or the mother of the cat in my
> photograph, but no luck...
>
> :-)
>
> Douglas
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 5:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] St. Emilion Memories
>
>
>  Corrected url for my shot:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/StEmilion1997.jpg.html
>>
>> And I can't figure out how that happened.
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Recent photographs posted bring back certain memories, as so many things
>>> do:  In April of 1997 we had the use of a house in a 'commune' (probably
>>> too small to be called a 'village', and we were told the mayor was a
>>> communist) about 20 minutes by car southeast of the village of St.
>>> Emilion.
>>>
>>> Douglas Barry's photograph at
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Bordeaux2014_St-Emilion_View1.jpg.html
>>>  shows a tower in the background, known as the Royal Tower or Tower of
>>> the
>>> King or something similar; if you climb to the top you can as I did,
>>> take a
>>> photograph of a view much beloved in travel magazines:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Bordeaux2014_St-Emilion_View1.jpg.html
>>>
>>> This was scanned some time ago from a C-41 negative (probably Kodak Royal
>>> Gold) made with a Leitz-Minolta CL, my only camera at the time.  (When I
>>> finally sent it to Sherry Krauter for a CLA after this trip she said the
>>> shutter was way off, which probably explained why so many of my shots
>>> were
>>> blurry.
>>>
>>> Memories.....
>>>
>>> --Bob
>>>
>>>
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