Quick podcast from Dotcom Garden
It’s quick, but it’s big - 16 MB as a QT file: I see I’m going to have to learn a bunch about audio if I’m going to keep the podcasts up, but that should be fun. I see Adobe has 2 good audio apps, both of which are coming to Mac - and that […]
A clip from the Taizé service
The trip home from France, via Lyon and Frankfort, was uneventful, and I’ve kinda figured out the audio tools I’ve now purchased - flip4Mac and QuickTime Pro. So here’s a clip in QT .mov format (plays back OK in Safari) from Sunday’s Pentecost service (here’s WMV). Again this recording is from the tiny WS 300 […]
Airplanes and desktops
It’s a bit past 6:00 AM here in Lyon where we arrrived yesterday PM: Linda’s out jogging and I’m packing up a last backback and getting ready to go out to the Aeroport.
We’re in a hotel in the heart of town, whose building dates from the 12th century. I’m guessing the desk my PowerBook is […]
At Taizé
Scene Friday night as we left the service at the Taizé Commaunité with friends David and Steve Perry last night. These services, led by the Taizé Freres, are world famous for their simplicity and great joy.
In fact I have made a brief recording of the Taizé chants: but all the audio tools I downloaded yesterday […]
Meanwhile, back at the Chateau…
We’re back on our patio after a mile hike around Igé with Linda: I turned back after walking through this pretty expanse of Chardonnay vines, and Linda continued up a hill to get in a distance more appropriate for her. We’re a 2-speed couple this trip (though Linda has been very patient with me and […]
WiFi-blogging at the castle
So I’m sitting on the very pleasant patio at Chateau d’Igé, a 13-century French chateau, blogging on my laptop. Something about WiFi and ancient buildings just seems to work (though I do have to hunt a bit to find a good signal - thick stone walls may not be ideal for the usual WiFi gear).
There’s […]
Wine tasting in Chardonnay
In all our visits to France, Linda and I have never gone wine tasting, believe it or not. So today we stopped at Cave Macon de Lugny’s tasting room - which could have been in the Napa Valley - and tasted their gold and silver medal winners.
These are wonderful, flinty Chardonnays, with just a bit […]
A low key day pour moi
I’m a bit wobbly after yesterday’s efforts, so we decided a low-key day would be a good thing. Linda drove us to Tournus, where I walked a flat 1.5 miles along the Saone before visiting the Abbaye.
There was a noon service going, the participants were Jr. high age, and I, as I have been many […]
Jesus, Benedict and Le Figaro
When in France, I usually try to read a morning daily to help improve my French. This morning’s Le Figaro has a Litéraire supplement in which 3 French intellectuals respond to Pope Benedict’s just-published 430-page essay on Jesus. It’s a bit tough going: I need a better French-English dictionary to get through these essaies. I’m […]
Linda goes Française: we all go hiking
Linda, who is driving this trip, has really become an expert pilot of our rented Peugeot 207. Add in the flare with which she is dressing and displaying, and, well she is a worthy visiteur.
This morning we went on what was advertised as a 5 km butterfly hike outside the medieval town of Brancion. […]