Movie
Destination: Provençe, France
Movie: The Grocer’s Son (Les Fils de l’epicier)(2008)
Some time ago, a reader recommended this movie, and it finally made it to the top of my Netflix list. Thank you, whoever you were–stand up and take a bow for introducing The Grocer’s Son.
When I thought about why I enjoyed this movie, it became [...]
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Destination: Paris (and the Bronx)
Movie: Julie and Julia
Although everyone touts Julie and Julia as the ultimate foodie movie, it does pretty well as a travel movie, too.
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Destination: London
Movie: Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr.
On Christmas day, the latest of many movie versions of the adventures of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes debuts. The new Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey Jr. as the brooding, sexy, young sleuth with a 21st century 3-day growth of facial hair.
Today, we have a guest article from the web site Dream of Italy. Thanks to owner of the site, Kathy McCabe, and author of this article, Michael Lowe. The Twilight Movie New Moon releases November 20.
Destination: Volterra, Italy
Movie: New Moon
Destination: Japan
Book: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
I have never been to Japan. The country has always mystified me. The elaborate rituals, the complex rules for gardens and for tea ceremonies. And mostly the tradition of Geishas.
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Pixar’s movie UP sends mixed messages about travel.
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Place: Crete, Greece
Book: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)
Movie: Zorba the Greek with Alan Bates and Anthony Quinn(1964) and subsequent musical, Zorba
Several years ago, during our travels in Greece, Ken and I had a marvelous 10 days of driving back and forth across the mountains of Crete and exploring its rough-edged beauty. [...]
Destination: France
Movie: Charlotte Gray
I rather wish that I had read the novel,Charlotte Gray (1999) by Sebastian Faulks, because the story seems too complex for the simplified love story that dominates the film, Charlotte Gray (2002). However, I would not want to miss the atmospheric French village that plays an important role in the movie.
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Destination: Ireland, Oklahoma
Movie: Far & Away, Directed by Ron Howard
Stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise look so young in this 1992 film. The story takes a snooty rich girl and a poor peasant lad from Ireland, where they are escaping what was known as the land wars of Ireland* to Boston** and finally to [...]
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