[Leica] St. Emilion Memories

[Douglas Barry]

Bob
It certainly used to be the best restaurant in Saint Emilion, but its chef 
left last year and it isn't as great at the moment allegedly. That will 
change though! I intend going back next year I hope, as you never get tired 
of a few days in Saint Emilion.

Here's the place I think you took your picture from.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@44.893353,-0.156319,3a,75y,48.28h,23.2t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sfSn_0SMO2TwAAAQIt9PoZg!2e0!3e11?hl=en

Hope that long URL works

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] St. Emilion Memories


> 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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