Really good film i saw yesterday, pretty surprising, but very good!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403981/

Very good movie (from a book: patient 67). I cannot tell much about it if you want to see it, but it was very good!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/

it was one of the best film i have seen the past 5 years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068649/

Tears, laughs, emotions, realities, dreams, hope, you go through a big rainbow of thoughts during this film… The plus for me was Nancy and its surrounds, sort of back home memories, and these 2 excellent actresses. Really, take the chance to see it!

really good movie, story of 3 women, i recommend it!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068641/

I went to Stockholm yesterday evening only to see this film with the mervellous George. I was not dissapointed, it was a good film, a lot of questions to ask myself after that and after all, to watch George in nearly 2 hours can only be good. Yes, go for it, it is worth it!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/

 

The château of Azay-le-Rideau was built from 1518 to 1527, one of the earliest French Renaissance châteaux. Built on an island in the Indre River, its foundations rise straight out of the water.

Gilles Berthelot began to build it under Francois I time. The originality of this castel i the central staircase, called Escalier d´honneur.

Over the centuries, it changed hands several times until the early part of the twentieth century, when it was purchased by the French government and restored. Today, the castel is open to public visits and surrounded by a nineteenth-century parklike English landscape garden.

The sculptural details at Azay are particularly remarkable. On the ground floor, fluted pilasters on high bases support the salamander and the ermine, emblems of François I and Claude de France.

Honoré de Balzac called it “a facetted diamond set in the Indre.”  and for me, it’s even more than that.

The Financial District of New York City (sometimes called FiDi) is a neighborhood on the southernmost section of the borough of Manhattan which comprises the offices and headquarters of many of the city’s major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange.

source. wikipedia

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar value of its listed companies securities. As of October 2008, the combined capitalization of all domestic New York Stock Exchange listed companies was $10.1 trillion.

Its trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of four rooms used for the facilitation of trading. A fifth trading room, located at 30 Broad Street, was closed in February 2007. The main building, located at 18 Borad Street between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a Naitonal Historic Landmark in 1978.

source: wikipedia

 

Federal Hall, located at 26 Wall Street, was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of  George Washington’s first inauguration in 1789.

It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. The original building was demolished in the nineteenth century and replaced by the current structure, which served as the first United States Customs House.

Today, the Federal Hall National Memorial, as it is now known, is operated by the National Park Service as a museum commemorating the historic events that happened there.

source: wikipedia

 

 

and the red bull:

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19commercial buildings covering 89,000 m² between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockfeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. It is the largest privately held complex of its kind in the world, and an international symbol of modernist architectural style blended with capitalism.

Source: wikipedia

With the help of lift, you can climb the 84 stairs in 84 seconds (if i remember well). This below is the view from the lift, impressing, or what?!?!

The statue of the Liberty and Elis Island, ad the financial district on the left of Manhattan:

The Brookling Bridge (and of course the Empire State Building):

one “suddig” view of Manhattan by half-night:

and the famous Christmas tree:

TheAmerican Museum of Natural History is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located on park-like grounds, the museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library. The collections contain over 32 million specimens of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year.

Source: wikipedia

if you ask me, i will tell you that i saw better places than this musem. Yeah, maybe negativ speach but there was nothing really impressiv there. The museum of the town where i grew up was as good although the city only had 30 000 inhabitants. But oh yeah, this belongs the thiings you have to make once in your life maybe!?

 

Central Park is a large public, urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually. Most of the areas immediately adjacent to the park are known for impressive buildings and valuable real estate. Central Park has been a National Historic Landmark since 1963.

The park is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The park was designed by Frederik Law Olmsted and architect Calvertt Vaux. While much of the park looks natural, it is in fact almost entirely landscaped. It contains several natural-looking lakes and ponds, extensive walking tracks, two ice-skating rinks, the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden, a wildlife sanctuary, a large area of natural woods, a reservoir with an encircling running track, and the outdoor Delacore Theater which hosts the “Shakespeare in the Park” summer festivals.
The park also serves as an oasis for migrating birds.
source: wikipedia

if you ask me, it is one thing to see but don’t make a baba au rhum of that…

The Statue of Liberty, or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World, was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886. Standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship.

The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independance and was given to the United States to represent the friendship established during the American Revolution.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a US Patent for its structure. Maurice Koechling, chief engineer of  Gustave Eiffel’s engineering company and designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue’s construction and adoption of the repoussé technique, where a malleable metal is hammered on the reverse side.

The statue is of a robed woman holding a torch, and is made of a sheeting of pure copper, hung on a framework of steel (originally puddled iron) with the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf (originally made of copper and later altered to hold glass panes.) It stands atop a rectangular stonework pedestal with a foundation in the shape of an irregular eleven-pointed star. The statue is 151 ft (46 m) tall, but with the pedestal and foundation, it is 305 ft (93 m) tall.

Worldwide, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the United States and was, from 1886 until the jet age, often one of the first glimpses of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe.

The statue, also known affectionately as “Lady Liberty”, has become a symbol of freedom and democracy. She welcomed arriving immigrants, who could see the statue as they arrived in the United States. There is a version of the statue in France given by the United States in return.
source: wikpiedia

she is on the left and on the right, Elis Island.

If you ask me, 22 dollars for the boat trip, i prefered watched these one:

The Magnolia Plantation and Gardens is an historic house with gardens located closed to Charleston. It is one of the oldest plantations in the south.

The plantation dates to 1676 when Thomas and Ann Drayton built a house and small formal garden on the site. (The plantation remains under the control of the Drayton family after 15 generations.)

Originally a rice plantation, Magnolia became known for its gardens after the Reverend John Grimke Drayton inherited the property in the 1840s and began to rework its gardens in an English style.

According to legend, he built the gardens to lure his bride south from her native Philadelphia. He was among the first to utilize Camellia japonica in an outdoor setting (1820s), and is said to have introduced the first azaleas to America. Dripping with pink and red azalea flowers and framed by live oak trees, the gardens of Magnolia on the Ashley were quite well known in the Antebellum period.

Another visitor to Magnolia in this period was John James Audubon for whom Magnolia’s Aubudon Swamp Garden is named.

Source: wikipedia and guided tour in the plantation.
official website: http://www.magnoliaplantation.com/index.html

There are a loooooooooot of animal in the plantation. We mostly saw birds but some alligators lives there too. No human eating accident has occured since the beginning but it is known that Charly, a 5 m long alligator lives there.

 

Savannah is a city located in the state of Georgia.It is the largest city in, and the county seat of Chatham County.

Savannah was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia.Savannah attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city’s architecture and historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low(founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Telfaire Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South’s first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African American Baptist congregations in the
United States), etc

The river front is a very animated place in the city days like nights. We ate in a pirate restaurant delicious seafood and the atmosphere in the whole town was very different of the one in other american cities: here pedestrians are able to survive!

The city har a lot of charm, mostly due to the squares which are everywhere.

source: Wikipedia and visits

Kind of sad to only see how indians were turn to a miniroty without real chances and how they try to survive by making tourism about their cultur, with a censur that is bigger than the pekin thinks …

ooops no pic….

Karlsruhe, january 2005

it´s a bad pic of a great place in Karlsruhe. the best bar evar but “immer Bier aus der Flasche!”

from my old room in Karlsruhe, march 2005