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Venice Beach: Copyright © 2004 - Ivan "Poncho" O'Toole, Los Angeles

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France: Copyright © 2004 - SD Chicago

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Companions: Copyright © 2004 – SV London, Ontario, Canada

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Venice Beach:

 

Everything you imagined a Los Angeles Beach would be.  Can’t get here?  Here’s a taste –

 

And for a real time view, if you have a fast connection The Venice Beach Webcam – updated every few seconds. 

 

1. A life-long fan hears a band play at the Venice Beach.  The band is not identified, nor is the young fan, nor her tatooed father.

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2. Skateboarding was invented out here, so….

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3. Photographer’s note: The free samples were good.

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France:

 

And if you cannot get to the south of France this week, our correspondent in Chicago (just returned) will provide a fix here:

 

Photographer’s note:

I don't remember where this was.  It could have been any one of a dozen villages.  St. Paul de Vence, maybe.

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But let’s not overly romanticize sunny Provence….  There is crime, as you see from this sign at a gas station somewhere in the mountains of the Luberon, somewhere north of Apt – “They may not have as many guns as the US but, alas, they have some ...

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And they have graffiti – even in Arles, that town Van Gogh made us all love. 

 

Photographer’s note: Atkins diet acoloytes in Arles?  This confused me until I got home and Googled it.  This was the work of the Arles Green party, registering their opposition to genetically modified food or OGM (organismes génétiquement modifiés). [ Los Angeles graffiti isn’t so high-minded and political. ]

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And here’s a mind-bender - a French sign for a Thai restaurant in Provence with an American slang implication – “Cook tonight?  No, phuket ...”

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Companions:

 

Classic pet shots, Dingo and Phoenix, of London, Ontario, Canada.  From a fellow who used to work for me when I lived there for two years.  London is a fine place.

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