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La Belle France
A musical look at one of the most romantic countries of the world - La Belle France! Beautiful France! We carried a camera on our annual musical tour of France and this is the result. The great impresario of Omaha, Nebraska, Dick Walter who's been putting on travel films for decades, deemed it:
"As good a travelogue as my audience has ever enjoyed."And that's just for starters, as they say in England.
This excursion includes five regions of France. We'll visit Normandie and its famous beaches, monasteries and the two-headed cow. We will see the sights of Paris - the Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, the Metro, the Seine and the Louvre.
Then it's on to Vendee on the Atlantic coast and its ruins, canals, and the Isle of Noirmoutier. Also the theme park, Puy du Fou and a chateau with an American connection. The next region is Poitou, with the Valley of the Frescoes, Medieval chateaux, music and jousting.
Our final stop is in Provence, home to Roman monuments, Van Gogh's most productive year, and some Lipizzan horses. We'll witness the Running of the Sheep at St. Remy (see France Video Clip), the Tour de France, take a boat ride through Marseilles harbor, and wind up at a country music festival. Video: Running of the Sheep at St.Remy:
We keep coming back to Mont St. Michel. (Bottom Left). It is such a magical place, overrun by tourists and yet strangely accessible. We stay at a campground on the mainland, and walk across the roadway to the Mont. The French say they will eventually get rid of the permanent causeway and let the tide come swirling in again, all round the island. We've featured the Mont in two of our films, now: "La Belle France" and "La Manche/The English Channel." It's hard to ignore it.
(RIGHT) Monty, about to present "La Belle France in Kearney, NE, January, 2012. Nebraska and France just seem to connect!
Below: we came upon the Roger Morand Cajun Band, a French group, playing at the Country Roque Festival in La Roque d'Antheron in Provence. They seem pretty natural with Cajun music. To see them on You Tube, click the link below for our videos.
It's Great! Britain
A great place to visit for history. See rambling castles and picturesque ruins, old inns and monasteries,
prehistoric tombs, stone circles, and giant white horses cut into limestone hillsides.
Hear the great! stories that go hand in hand with the sights: stories about Robin Hood, the Black Dog, the Lord Protector, the Great Fire of London, Hadrian's Wall, and the Cerne Giant. And meet writers like Thomas Hardy, Robbie Burns and the legendary Lawrence of Arabia.
As you might expect from a film by wandering minstrels, there will be great British folk music at pubs in Somerset, and a Country and Western festival in Wales.
Your trip to Britain will be guided by Monty, (a genuine great Brit), who will introduce you to His Family and Other Animals all over England and bits of Scotland and Wales and in case you have trouble with the language, Marsha will be on hand to translate.
Testimonial from Deryck, of Coventry England, who purchased several copies of It's Great! Britain on the internet. September, 2007.
Dear Monty
Just to let you know that the parcel arrived this morning - with a comfortable week to spare ahead of our departure. And to say also that we are very pleased with the contents of your film. The DVDs are intended as gifts for close members of my family who, like you it seems, have their origins here but have lived most of their lives in the US. The idea is simply to awaken memories, or to forge new links. In making your film you could only make an impossibly small selection of places to visit, but as it happens your choice well met the bill.
We all know London, our son was married in an area of Suffolk that you display, my wife and I have visited Lindisfarne, and spent a recent holiday walking the length of Hadrians Wall; as children I and my sisters had seaside holidays at Presytatyn, we took my Mother on a tour of Exmoor on her very last return trip to England before she died (she was utterly delighted by it), and we've done some splendid walking in Hardy country. So you see - spot on!
You must return some day and do another, perhaps this time visiting the Highlands of Scotland, doing a bit more of Wales (the wonderful Snowdon Mountain range and the glorious Pembrokeshire coast), and of course our beloved Lake District. But again many thanks.