Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess that's why he did not finish all the wine... I heard about the auction of the stash from the Mayor's office. For us Calvinist northern Europeans, the grandeur in which elected officials live in France and elsewhere in southern Europe (and of course the pomp and circumstance associated with the US presidency) is very strange and actually off-putting. The city hall of Copenhagen is also a grand building, but the mayor is expected to cycle to work...In the past decade or two, most of the scandals that felled Danish politicians have involved behaviour that would be entirely normal elsewhere, mostly having to do with living too grandly. Nathan Steve Unsworth wrote: > Chirac was a beer drinker wasn't he? > > Steve > > > On 5/6/07 13:43, "Philippe Amard" <phamard@numericable.fr> wrote: > > > >> BTW ;: the current mayor put some of JC 's wine cellar on auction last >> year; an amazing list in truth, means he left some BTW. >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!