[Leica] St. Emilion Memories

[Robert Baron]

Yes, that must be the place.

This technology is freakin' amazing, I tell you.

Just, Wow.

--Bob

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> 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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