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DELICIOUS !!

Poires Rouges... Epicerie-Restaurant Hédiard Paris

Great store at the Place de la Madelaine in Paris, which carries a large range of delicatessen products from both local and distant lands. 150 years of savoir-faire!

This "Comptoir des Epices et des Colonies" opened in 1880 at Place de la Madeleine, where loose fruit and vegetables were sold by pretty girls from Martinique.

Today Hédiard has eight shops in Paris and 150 sales outlets throughout France, and many more stores worldwide

I mentioned Fauchon in an earlier post. Similar to Fauchon, Hédiard is absolutely one of those delicatessen stores of which the window display draws you into their store.

I WISH !

That would be nice !!!

DO PENGUINS HAVE KNEES ??

I was just wondering....
Woke up one night last week, when I had dreamt about penguins (no clue why I dreamt about them though...)

Do these little guys have KNEES ?
Just judging the funny way they walk one would say NO !

ARLINGTON WEST at SANTA MONICA BEACH

Each and every Sunday since February 15th 2004, this memorial - ARLINGTON WEST - is set up on the sand just north of the pier at Santa Monica Beach by the local chapter of Veterans for Peace and other volunteers as a way to acknowledge the costs and consequences of war as an instrument of international policy. Volunteers start setup at 7:30am on Sunday mornings - rain or shine - and take down starts just before sunset Sunday evenings.

Also erected in the sand is a "wall" now about 45 feet in length similar to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C., listing all the fallen American military personnel since the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq to the present day.

Visitors can read any of the many names, ages, rank, hometown and circumstance of death, and are invited to select and write the name of a fallen military person on a piece of paper along with any thoughts or sentiments and attach this to a cross along with a flower. Many family members and close loved ones have come and dedicated their own words and mementos of their loved one.

Arlington West offers a place to mourn, to contemplate, grieve, and to honor and acknowledge those who've lost their lives and to reflect upon the true cost of war.

A sign nearby calls attention to the number of Iraqi's killed, now numbering by some estimates to be well over 100,000, that the number of crosses required to acknowledge them would fill the entire beach.

Watch "A Nation Rocked to Sleep" , a poem by Carly Sheehan.

RODEO DRIVE

I drove down (& up) Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills last weekend.
My God!! Interesting shops... Interesting cars!!!

Rodeo Drive is one of the most exclusive shopping streets in the world. THE place to max out your Credit Card!! Plenty of top-class Italian designer boutiques, the best in French fashion and world-class jewellers. Other than spending a fortune…. There’s very little to do here other than walk (or drive) down one side of the street and up the other.

MG

The mere mention of MG is enough to make the eyes of motoring enthusiasts mist over. To fans of cars and driving, the famous octagonal badge represents the definitive British sports car.