"Those Who Don't Try Never Look Foolish..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

All right. Finally, post with actual content. >_>

We are going to England in May. How many of you live in England? mage_brandebouc for sure, I know, but anyone else? I am absolutely mad dying to get a chance to meet you, since God knows when I'll ever get to go to England again. This is all extremely exciting.

I shall attempt to visit all the places in my geeky literature, of course. *G*

Also, we're going to spend a day in Paris, too, so I am going to try and find the Rue de Les Amis Barricades, whose name I cannot spell and therefore will not embarrass myself attempting. Numerous other places, besides. ^___^

In other news, went to an Author's Tea while at Juniata and got a copy of the girl's book (she's still going to Juniata) and she signed it and gave me her phone number and said if I ever wanted her to look over my book someday... Well, I've begun reading hers, and if I write my book someday, I am not letting her anywhere near it. >_> Why did no one poke this girl repeatedly and teach her punctuation? Whyyyyy? It's driving me mad.

On the bright side, The Underground City is pure, unadulterated beauty, and I am very pleased with it. Huzzah for Jules Verne with characters that one can care about!

Comments

[eponinenkind.livejournal.com]

Rue de la Chanvrerie? Doesn't exist anymore, I'm sorry ´_`
I've been to Paris twice so far and haven't seen any Les Mis places! >_>;
Have fun! ^____^
*hugs*

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

It's damn cool to come upon the right area of the rue Rambuteau, though.

Somewhere in the Louvre is a portrait that is absolutely perfect for Marius. A dark haired young man with a rather dreamy expression and aristocratic features. I don't know the boy's name or who painted him, just that I saw him while everyone else was trying to push into the crowd for a glimpse of la Joconde (Mona Lisa). And seeing Liberté guidant le peuple was a religious experience. I just stood there staring, because I found it accidentally, and it is huge and epic and far more beautiful in person than any photograph will have you believe. I had to be pulled away from it.

Oh, and Paris will kill your diet. The bread, the pastries, the wine, everything. Yummy yummy yummy.

Not that I miss Paris, but I would like to go back and spend days and days in the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay. And somebody other there has to have a collection of 19th century Salon painting - I need to see the real things, not just pictures, of what Courbet and later artists were rebelling against. It's research, dammit.

[eponinenkind.livejournal.com]

*sighs* I so want to go there. I want to go to the Louvre! >_>;
Rue Rambuteau? Cool. I'll try to find it when I go to Paris in summer *g*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Woww. You are making me anticipate this madly. I shall absolutely have to see everything. Mmph. Wow. *_*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Damn. Heh. How cruel life is!

See above. But I am going to make a desperate effort.

Thanks! *glomps*

[eponinenkind.livejournal.com]

XD Good luck!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ^^

[and-i.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, England! What are you planning on doing in our fair wet land?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

May! Sometime in May! How close are you to London?

[and-i.livejournal.com]

A relatively short train ride away :). Not far, not far at all.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Yay! Neat. ^_^ Would you like to try meeting?

[and-i.livejournal.com]

Yes, as long as you promise you're not a psycho stalker ;).

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Word of honour. I'm too short to be a stalker. ^__^

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

*sulks* I'm going to England in March, as well as France. Can't you go two months earlier? ;p

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*wails* My fate is dediced, and neither God nor man can alter it!

Maybe I'm going to New York sometime this year... Maybe when/if we go to Canada...