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Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Got on board an eastbound 747


Photos by Richard Schear

(Note: This was posted before The Big Blogger Meltdown, when the folks at blogspot.com decided to delete a day's worth of our posts to help them, somehow, in their site-maintenance. They promised to put them all back but, so far, I don't know of anyone who has had a missing post re-posted by the Blogger Boys. I've decided on a do-it-myself approach. If they also re-post it, I can delete one. In the meantime, it seems the Thursday Theme Song home page fell prey to the maintenance wizards, too.)











Never flew before on seven-forty-sevens,
Thought lots before deciding what to do.
All that talk of upstairs barrooms,
Reclining beds and comfort
Rang false, ’stead of true.
Economy is not the place for lounging,
And we’ve often had that kind of flight before.
It’s just not the place for lounging,
And, girl, don’t they warn ya
It’s a bore, it’s a bore.



Out of room, we have no bed,
Out of my seat, off to the head,
We’re underserved, we’re underfed,
We wanna go home!

It’s never comfy here in center seating,
And girl, don’t they warn ya
It’s hot, man, it’s hot.


Will you tell the folks back home we really made it?
Got to Amsterdam and got us on the cruise.
Please tell them that we’re happy,
Just tell them that we’re happy, that's the news,
That's our good news.
Seems it always rains in Europe when folks go there,
But hardly rained at all when we were there.
It alway rains somewhere in Europe,
But if you're there in springtime,
It’s warm, man, it’s warm.


Posted for Thursday Theme Song,
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Pink-foot geese in Europe, chickens on Kauai

Pink-foot geese: Rearly reflected.

"Wild" chickens follow the leader, almost, but not quite, using the crosswalk, to greet tourists.
Photos by Richard Schear and Kay Davies   
Posted for Weekend Reflections, the meme that lets you reflect.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

M: for Metz and its magnificent "gare"


We've been traveling by train in The Netherlands, Belgium, France and Switzerland, and when we arrived in Metz, a French city not far from the Luxembourg border, we thought it had a rather unusual train station ("gare" in French). A little bit of research (in a book, not on the internet) told us it's because it shows a distinct Germanic influence. Who knew? Learn something new every day, as I always say.   (Richard Schear photo)

































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