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Friday Photography Blog no. 18 | 146 comments (146 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Returning from Lyon by car, we were drawn off the highway- A6, I believe- by the need to---er, drain the snake. we followed some signs, and ended up ---here.

Seems nuts, but we cannot remember the name of this incredibly lovely medieval town.
A sincere query -- where is this?
I have other photos, if anyone is interested--I'd like to go back again.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:26:53 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (none / 0)

Lovely town geezer. Please put some more photos up.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:35:05 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (4.00 / 3)

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 05:25:19 AM EST
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Such a pretty place.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 06:15:15 AM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (none / 0)

That second picture, uncompressed, might have enough information on the direction panels to find which city it is...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 09:03:15 AM EST
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Would it be Saumur?

A free fox in a free henhouse!

by Xavier in Paris on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 07:19:03 PM EST
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Is it? I visited Saumur on a school trip when I was 12. Is it on the Reine? There was a Da Vinci museum there. Saumur is where I first tried roll mop herrings (to impress my teacher who was trying to get us to eat new things but all the other kids ordered chips). I loved them and have never found such nice ones in the UK, even on our fresh fish market.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 04:58:03 PM EST
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For sure.

Saumur's on the Loire. Hmm. Haven't had a rollmop in ages.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:02:04 PM EST
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Strike that for sure. Wrong comment.

I tried finding geezer's town, but drew a blank.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:06:16 PM EST
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I know I know!!! At first sight!!!

Semur-en-Auxois, it's where my favourite Louis de Funès film, Ni vu... Ni connu... was made!

Come here, Go Away!

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:08:19 PM EST
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That's it! Brilliant, DoDo!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:11:06 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (none / 0)

I wouldn't know it without some prior help by the dearly missed Alex/glomp, who helped me identify the filming location ages ago, but that thread must have been deleted.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:39:37 PM EST
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You're right. As soon as I saw the name, it came back to me. Ivonne agrees.
Incredibly lovely town--but whathehell is a rollmop? Sounds more like a cleaning device than an edible treat.

Thanks to all who helped out.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 12:38:15 AM EST
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