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TOURIST TIME!!?

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clipped from www.listingwebcam.com Altitude 18 m. - 10500 habitants - Paris 830 km. - Nîmes 20 km, Montpellier 35, Le Grau-du-Roi Port Camargue 25, Arles 30, Ste Marie de la Mer et le Parc Régional de Camargue 30 - Capitale du vignoble des Costières de Nîmes. ------------------------------- Groupant les communes d'Aimargues, Aubord, Beauvoisin, La Cailar, Vauvert - Cigogne de Cristal - Lauréat 1993, Place Ernest-Renan, 30600 VAUVERT tél. 04.66.88.28.52 télécopie : 04.66.88.71.25 Ouvert toute l'année, de 9h à 12h et de 14h à 18h du lundi après-midi au samedi midi ------------------------------- Gard (30) - Languedoc - Roussillon Our friends : Athaia : Big directory Listing room Fair apartment Photos hotels Listing rooms Listing hotels free Listing free maps Free big photos Listing infos Database Travel Rent room and houses Girls and females Photos girls cities Local weather forecast American citizen bank Google Yahoo Maps Google city maps   The Region of reside...

Under the Influence nr 1

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http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dchktwkh_999ftc2h Under the influence? A series of stories from memory - Montpellier CHU February 2006 At the period when these “events” either happened or didn’t happen, I was in the Intensive Care department of the Central Hospital Unit at Montpellier, France. The same authority where “Nostradamus” had studied many centuries before, I can hardly imagine that this has any relevance, but since I find that the events could be construed as “a look into a possible future”, I simply mention the fact! I have no idea whether these events were simply as a result of the medical treatment involved (high doses of morphine based medicaments) or whether they actually did happen. Proof is not available, but I write down the events as I thought they happened, either as proof of a vivid imagination, or proof of “hidden activities” within Hospital (and other) closed societies! Although only 4 months have passed, I find that I am slowly forgetting details, and at the sa...

And that's a fact!

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clipped from mail.google.com The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.   A snippet found on a site, thus giving me the chance to try my newish trick "Clipmarks" (only send bits of a page, and not the whole page!) (The source was given as "ancient Chinese Proverb")

Translations a la Google!

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If the next article gets through, have a grin! This is an AUTOMATICALLY translated page using Google page translator! Good job we're more intelligent!   http://www.webspawner.com/users/mrlemarquis/index.html

Emailing: Translated version of http--www.linternaute.com-actualite-savoir-07-petrole-yaourt-1.shtml

Translated version of http://www.linternaute.com/actualite/savoir/07/petrole-yaourt/1.shtml

French Sunday!

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( read the small print!) Today is Sunday 22nd April 2007, and things are slowly getting started. The first Voters, half of them with brains mashed from the Saturday evening out, and on their way back from the various night clubs, pass quickly through the Voting Offices at 8am, so as to be undisturbed for the rest of the Sunday "sleep-off", and the other half (the pensioners and older people) who can't sleep longer than 4-5 hours a night anyway, pass through, and then wonder what to do for the rest of this Sunday! French Saturday night occupations! In fact, various other "enterprises" profit more than others on days like these! At 7.30am, the Institution of the Eglise profit from the situation, knowing that the elderly ladies who frequent the Sunday mess will be accompanied (for a change) maybe by their husbands, effectively doubling the congregation, and after the mess, everyone will trudge to their various polling stations, vote and "Hubbie" will take...

French leave!

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( my mate Chippie coming back from the Local Village Fete!) So, so - Your holidays are almost upon us! How about learning this year a few more things about France and the French? Here are a few ideas, some useful, some factual, others not worth a dime/cent! If you think this is an exaggeration, be warned, this is the typical situation in France, particularly when we know that the Tourists are coming! Don't get upset, just ask the wife - she'll generally know what to do! Only thing she won't know how to do is reply to the French Gendarme who wants to arrest you for being somewhere you didn't ought to be! This is where this little article could come in handy! A few facts: In France, the National Gendarmerie live in Casernes, just like the Military, because that's what they are, a branch of the French Army! The local Police, called Police Municipale, are entitled to carry arms as well, but apart from that, they are of no use at all, and very difficult to find, partic...

La carte "mr le marquis (iwmpop)" vous attend !

Bonjour , Jan Mitchell a créé spécialement pour vous une carte de voeux intitulée " mr le marquis (iwmpop) ". Un message vous y attend. Pour la découvrir , cliquez ici . Cette carte restera disponible pendant 15 jours . Cordialement , la rédaction de L'Internaute Magazine Les Cartes de voeux virtuelles , un service gratuit de L'Internaute Magazine

Des supers! Spitzenreitern! Only the best!

http://pack.google.com/intl/fr/pack_installer.html?hl=fr&gl=fr # Voici tous que vous avez besoin de - et en Français, en plus! Gratuite - bien sur! Toutes ces programmes sont testées, utilisées depuis longtemps par moi-même, et je peux vous garantir - Cela vaux le temps! These are programmes free of charge, very useful, tested and used by myself for quite some time, I can tell you-It's worth the time! You can change the language from French to English on the pages concerned! Hier sind Programme die nichts kosten, sehr nutzbar sind, Es lohnt sich dieses oder der andere zu haben. Ich selbst habe alle, getestet-installiert und Ich benütze die tagtäglich! Sie können die Sprache wechseln auf die Seiten. -- Links to other iwmpop pages: http://www.webspawner.com/users/mrlemarquis/index.html http://www.webspawner.com/users/mrlemarquis/graniteassistan.html

Avatar-Ian-webcam

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Avatar-Ian-webcam , originally uploaded by iwmpop . Just trying a few from the re-vamped and now accessible Flick'r site (see on main "Mr le Marquis" site on the "links" page)

Ian-Homme de Provence?

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Ian-Homme de Provence , originally uploaded by iwmpop . A bit darkish, but a Tinkerbelle creation! August 2006-Campagne. Old man - straw hat - Gauloises somewhere - Olives in the background - litre of "rouge" and a baguette not far out of reach! A Hemingway double? This one knows "for whom the bell tolls" and he hears them "tolling" every day, often, at his home Village! (Can be brightened up on your own Photo Editor!)-This is a scanned photo.

GANDAR-the beastly story!

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This is the "beastly" story of "Gandar"= A legendary bull from the area covered by this map (you can click to increase size,I hope) Gandar is immortalized in various ways, recently by the installation of a statue in stone in the village of Vauvert (see link to "Vauvertvillage"). The story goes that Gandar started his career as a perectly normal bull, at the Manade Blatiere,doing "bullish" things in the area.Around 1942 he was born, and passed into the arenas for the traditional Camarguaise festivals, and proved his worth by taking out a few of the local raseteurs (those people who try to get rings onto the bulls horn). His career took off one day when he was being transported back home and the transporter literally exploded at the railway level crossing in the village of Vauvert. He was badly injured, one of his horns being torn off in the accident. The owner decided that rather than having him put down, and probably sold as the main ingredien...

R,R and R's!

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(reeds in the Camargue) Nope-it's not rest and recreation, Army style - R,R ans R's represents the area of France in which Mr le Marquis resides - "reeds,rice and 'rigglers! For those of you who may not know the area, or have vaguely heard of it, somewhere, or indeed for those of you who may like to visit the area, here is a little trip! This is a fairly typical view of the Camargue, being situated along the shores of the Med. sea, les etangs (lakes), with a varied nature . In fact the area has more than people think - it is, for example, Europe's largest producer of rice, particularly the "natural" rice (brown and not white). Buildings like the one below were built to accomodate, originally, the workers in the reed industry, and this industry is still the biggest in Europe today, although the buildings have passed into legend, or have become hunting lodges/gites for the tourists/occasionally a meeting point for locals. (Typical thatched roof in Camar...

Something entirely new!

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All over? Finished chasing/searching for your eggs? Well - now relax and click onto the new link above, or on this one: http://picasaweb.google.com/iwmpop There are HUNDREDS of my preferred photos (some from me, some from others- actually this page has existed for a long time, and I thought I'd already given the link, but apparantly not). Photos are being added all the time under various album headings. Simple to use, you can download and print as you wish, always on the same principle "personal usage - FREE" and "Professionals - ask!" This page will be taking over from the "Flickr" based Photo accounts, until such time as Flickr can get their problems sorted out! (Since being bought by "Yahoo" the thing hardly works, and is not as "sympathetic" as before)
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Easter- Paques - Ostern 2007

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Happy Easter - Bonne Pâques - Frohes Ostern!***************************************************************** Übersetzung: "Mein Hintern tut weg!" "Hast du was gesagt?" ****************** Traduction: "J'ai mal aux fesses!" "T'as dit quelque choses?"

For those who didn't know!

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