Choose one Belgian city or the other, or combine both in the same trip. Katherine Lawrey – with the help of SuperBreak – uncovers some unexpected and contrasting festive experiences
Category: Travel
Medieval town in south of France upholds ban on UFOs
Any aliens planning a drive-by over Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the town famous for its wine, had better think twice.
The mayor of the town in the Vaucluse department has refused to lift a 62-year-old ban on the “flying over, landing, or taking off of flying saucers” in the area.
The 1954 decree came soon after a man in northern France claimed to have seen two beings who looked like “deep sea divers” coming from a “cigar-shaped” space ship.
READ FULL STORY / Source: Medieval town in south of France upholds ban on UFOs – The Local
Paris: ‘Flying’ water taxis to be tested on River Seine
The seemingly madcap image of ‘flying’ water taxis ferrying Parisians up and the down the River Seine could soon become reality with tests on the futuristic vehicles to go ahead.
Source: Paris: ‘Flying’ water taxis to be tested on River Seine – The Local
Ro’s Recipes: House Party in Bruges & Mariners’ Mussels | Women’s Voices For Change
Three weeks later Jean-Luc called. He was visiting London. Over many meals of moules, Chinese, Indian, French, Turkish and English food, we developed a warmhearted friendship. Out of the sad fire of misled expectations and blind hope evolved happy stories.
Read More / Source: Ro’s Recipes: House Party in Bruges & Mariners’ Mussels | Women’s Voices For Change
London tops list for quality of life, sorry Paris and New York | Metro News
London was lauded as a ‘dynamic city’ with a well-developed infrastructure, legal system and health service (cheque’s in the post).Paris was runner up, scoring top for cultural influence, including attractions and cultural trendsetting.
Read Full Story / Source: London tops list for quality of life, sorry Paris and New York | Metro News
Uzès – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
Gypsy jazz ala Django in Uzès
It was so cool to run into this gypsy jazz quartet performing at Place aux Herbes, in Uzès last July. In this video recorded from my iPhone, the Uzès guys (never caught their name so let’s call them The Uzèsniacs ) are masterfully strumming “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” in that beautiful jazz manouche style.
Apologies -my cell battery sadly dies in the middle of a great guitar solo. Mert!
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” is an American jazz standard attributed to the Tin Pan Alley team of Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics) in 1928. Fats Waller and Una Mae Carlisle recorded my favorite version of the song, and there are jazz scholars who maintain that it was actually Waller who wrote the song and sold it to McHugh and Fields for $500. Mert, encore!
The song “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” is also famously featured in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The Uzèsniacs probably learned the song from this wonderful 1936 version from Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France ( listen below)
Pas De Merde 