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The Great Plain & Northeast Hungary (Chapter) Lonely Planet

There’s no arguing the spellbinding potential of the Great Plain’s big-sky country, especially around Hortobágy and Kiskunság National Parks. And for graceful architecture and history try Szeged, Kecskemét and Debrecen, while Northeast Hungary is the place to go to experience village life.

Coverage includes: The Great Plain, Tiszafüred, Debrecen, Hortobágy, Hajdúszoboszló, Kecskemét, Kiskunság National Park, Kalocsa, Szeged, Gyula, Northeast Hungary, Nyíregyháza, Nyírbátor and Bereg Region.

The Great Plain & Northeast Hungary (Chapter)

Fading fast.

Oh man, it's starting to smell like Fall. We're grasping onto all things Summer-spending as much possible time outside on patios, by the pool or maybe by the beach this long weekend! Do you guys have plans for the Labour Day weekend? Hope it's a good (and safe!) one.

Such a gorgeous bowl of Summer berries!

Kate Spade can do no wrong, and these floral platforms are most definitely no exception! 

Not only is this a beautiful workspace, but Kelli Murray's blog just got a new look and we're loving it!

I'm pretty sure my mom and my grandma make the best home-made noodle soup, but this pot looks so good you can almost taste it!

This swimsuit & her darling tattoo spot look picture perfect, not to mention that hat!

The Passenger (1975)

          Of the many negative effects that the emergence of the auteur theory had on the cinematic world, perhaps the most pernicious was the license that auterism gave some directors to indulge their inclinations toward pretentiously ambiguous filmmaking. Revered Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni offers ample evidence of this phenomenon in both this film and its predecessor, Zabriskie Point (1970). Although Antonioni broke through internationally with Blow-Up (1968), a tight thriller with subtle artistic flourishes, Zabriskie Point and The Passenger are opaque dramas more concerned with mood than narrative. Yet while Zabriskie Point is interesting for the way it captures certain attitudes of the counterculture generation, The Passenger has no such historical significance. Instead, it’s murky story about the grand themes of alienation, duplicity, and identity.

          Jack Nicholson, delivering one of the least interesting performances of his career, stars as David Locke, an American TV reporter tracking down story leads in equatorial Africa. Returning to his hotel one night, Locke discovers that a fellow traveler named Robertson has been murdered, so Locke steals Robertson’s papers, adds his photo in place of the dead man’s, and attempts to assume the Robertson’s identity. At first, this seems like a path to excitement, since Robertson was a gunrunner; Locke accepts payments from one of Robertson’s clients, and he also begins a romance with a sexy college student. (She’s played by Maria Schneider, of Last Tango in Paris fame, but Antonioni never bothers to give her character a name.) Eventually, Locke’s ruse unravels because he gets on the wrong side of dangerous men. There’s also a subplot involving Locke’s wife, who treks the globe looking for him. Everything culminates in a quasi-famous finale involving an elaborate tracking shot that, over the course of seven minutes, winds its way from a hotel room, into a courtyard, and back into the hotel room.

          Thanks to Antonioni’s refusal to provide explanatory details about characters and scenes—to say nothing of his painfully slow pacing—The Passenger is the sort of thing critics can spend decades dissecting, which means that many intelligent people have provided viable interpretations of the picture. Consumed as straightforward narrative, however, the film is borderline interminable. Countless insignificant actions are allowed to unfold at excruciating length, as if Antonioni hid meanings within the frame that the viewer is supposed to discover. Furthermore, because The Passenger features a distinct storyline, the movie weirdly straddles two worlds—it’s neither purely artistic nor purely narrative. Ultimately, the film is a bit like an abstract painting executed in a simplistic style: Where some beholders perceive layers, others see only the bland surface.

The Passenger: FUNKY

TMC Link Up Tenaya/ Matthes Crest/ Cathedral + Crowded Mountain

Steph Abegg has a great trip report with pictures in the High Sierra
Line Up to Climb a Peak - When Mountains become viral
Everest film of the 1924 Irvine - Mallory climb (facebook)


http://www.summitpost.org/tmc-linkup-tenaya-matthes-crest-cathedral/864118

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Line Up to Climb the Peak - When mountains become viral

https://www.thebmc.co.uk/queue-for-the-summit-when-peaks-become-freaks 

https://www.facebook.com/cyril.kaicener.3

 http://www.summitpost.org/the-rockwall-trail/761989

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/27/everest-film-mallory-irvine-world-premiere

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Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles - Seychelles (Chapter)

Having earned a reputation as a paradigm of ecotourism, the Seychelles is a top spot to watch birds and giant tortoises in their natural habitat, dive or hike jungle trails, while also indulging in fine dining and enjoying a sublime laid-back tempo.

splash around in the jewelled waters of Anse Source d'Argent, Anse Soleil, Petite Anse or Grande Anse - absolute heaven
dive with toothy critters at Shark Bank
take a guided walk in Morne Seychellois National Park to mug up on botany
live out that stranded-on-a-desert-island fantasy on secluded Bird Island

Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles - Seychelles (Chapter)

Parapendio a Creto GE 12 Febbraio 1989