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Subject: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide
From: foto at marcdufour.net (Marc Dufour)
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:40:02 +0100
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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
>>
>>
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>> > Jim Shulman
>> >
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