Where would you most like to smoke one off?

[Robusto]

Canterbury Cathedral.
It's close to home, has lovely piped-in choir music when you take French and US friends round, and it has ample seating.

I'd love to rev one up and watch the thick clouds push through the shafts of sunlight and up up up into the high vaults.

Thomas a Beckett is asleep in a casket in there. He wouldn't mind.

There's a big whiff of candles and wax. I think Cubanic plague would complement it.

They'd have let Orson Welles. Why not me?

[Ramon]

In the pub.

[Mr Moore]

It has to be a rural scene for me, as a one off [Kipling's downs] or somewhere rustic, just sitting outside a village pub, no pylons, high rise flats or too many people to spoil the view.

[nicwing]

I will give you two:

At our friends house in a small village near Grasse in the South of France, late June/Early July, Fantasic view across the valley, about 7.00 in the evening with the sun starting to go down, kids in the pool, LARGE glass of the local red, Barbeque on, Neil Young playing in the background, and the distinct prospect of some significant activity in the conjugal container later on. I've done it and there is nothing to beat it.

Sorry not to be more specific.....

Except possibly sitting at Franco's in Jermyn Street with a black tea and the freshest of Cigars and watching the women go by.

No I thought about it... it's France first!

[Ramon]

Neil Young playing in the background, and the distinct prospect of some significant activity in the conjugal container later on.

Now if it was Amapola that was playing that would really set the scene for me :smile:

[nicwing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YdeU4s-KN8

Are you sure dude?

[Mr Moore]

that view is absolutly stunning and I would agree with the young statement, I know its one of his bigger records but I love harvest moon, I suppose 'down by the river' would be more apt though, I love the guitar riff in middle end of that track.

[Mr Moore]

I think this is my fav thread, I just love nice views !! good for the soul.

[nicwing]

I think this is my fav thread, I just love nice views !! good for the soul.

You inspired me to find an even better picture (added to original post)

[Robusto]

I love Grasse and those hinterlands, Nic. Le Paradou.
My hang-out is more towards Aix-en-Provence, but anywhere set back a bit in Provence is stunning.

[Robusto]

the conjugal container
LMFAO :biggrin1:

[Ramon]

How about here?

I've swam in the large pool there.

[nicwing]

the conjugal container
LMFAO :biggrin1:

I was going to save this for the "what makes you laugh" spot, I can't claim it form myself, it's from Peter Tinniswood's tales of the cricketing folk of Whitney Scrotum.

I particularly like "...I slipped out of the house, leaving the lady wife in bed, seam up"

I am new to this stuff so (assuming it's rude) you need to send me a private message explaining LMFAO, or am I being thick?

[nicwing]

I love Grasse and those hinterlands, Nic. Le Paradou.
My hang-out is more towards Aix-en-Provence, but anywhere set back a bit in Provence is stunning.

Sorry Bryan, bit arse about face here, read your last post first, the village is Montauroux, just to the west of Grasse near Fayence, a little bit of heaven.

[Robusto]

I believe it means Laugh My Fucking Arse Off.
That's what I was once told when I asked. Just like you.

[bigjohn62]

just to be curious guys i live accross the pond in the u.s is there a strong anti smoking movement there as well? i would like to smoke in a park without being bothered.

[cj121]

I'm assuming when you say there bigfella, you mean here? No dramas I'd have thought, unless the stogie-Police are out. Seriously though, you'd be fine mate, and a good time of the year approaches to do it:41:

[bigjohn62]

yes i mean in europe. since i know what the climate is here in the states.

[Mr Moore]

I watched grand designs a couple of nights ago and the couple was restoring/re-designing an old 15th century castle in yorkshire, the view from one of the upper rooms which had a huge window over looking the countryside was stunning. Iv'e attached the view to this post, it does not do it justice, but imagine what it would be like to sit on your bedroom balcony and enjoy a cigar to this.

Its not everyones cup of tea, but it certainly is mine.

[cohibaIV]

I watched grand designs a couple of nights ago and the couple was restoring/re-designing an old 15th century castle in yorkshire, the view from one of the upper rooms which had a huge window over looking the countryside was stunning. Iv'e attached the view to this post, it does not do it justice, but imagine what it would be like to sit on your bedroom balcony and enjoy a cigar to this.

Its not everyones cup of tea, but it certainly is mine.

Me too!!..:rock:

:cool:

[nicwing]

I watched grand designs a couple of nights ago and the couple was restoring/re-designing an old 15th century castle in yorkshire, the view from one of the upper rooms which had a huge window over looking the countryside was stunning. Iv'e attached the view to this post, it does not do it justice, but imagine what it would be like to sit on your bedroom balcony and enjoy a cigar to this.

Its not everyones cup of tea, but it certainly is mine.

I saw it too, did you note that due to the mortgage they have to run it as a B&B. So you could get onto that balcony.

[cj121]

Block booking for a herf?:smoke:

[Mr Moore]

you know nic, me and the mrs checked online after show and its from ?50 per night, per person. B and B.
I was a tad unsure about the changes they made to the roof to begin with and more suprised english heritage ok'd alterations, but it ended up alright. you couldn't really see the roof above the battlements.
They didn't seem to move away from buildings original spec too much.

[Boss Hog]

Port Jefferson, NY in Summer time
A Gourmet alfresco lunch at Danfords Restaurant overlooking the harbour, followed by a gentle stroll down the marina boardwalk to one of the seated pagoda's at the end, where I soak up the sun and enjoy smoking a large one while watching the world float by.
A couple of dollys serving light refreshments as well wouldnt go amiss either.

[Drewmidorn]

I was in a lock in last night with a great band and Edward Tudor Pole and guess what.... because it was a "private party".... we all smoked.... it was like the halcyon days of yore.

[Robusto]

Is that Ten Pole Tudor? I think it's spelt like that. I used to love them!

I was going to say back in a pub, just as someone said at the start. So a lock-in liberates, hey?! :biggrin1:

I've been to Ronnie Scott's a few times over the years, and I used to love watching the artists with clouds and clouds of smoke passing above their heads. Somehow smoke adds to the artistry - even if it knackers the singer's lungs and shit.

[Ramon]

Ah, Ronnie Scott's, last time I was there was in '87. Upstairs in the balcony with a Danish girl, only a few steps from the bar :smile:

[nicwing]

Ronnie's, Danish Girl, Bar..... Sounds like a few steps from heaven!

[G-man]

In the White House! Sitting at the Presidental desk in the Oval office!

[Drewmidorn]

Is that Ten Pole Tudor? I think it's spelt like that. I used to love them!

I was going to say back in a pub, just as someone said at the start. So a lock-in liberates, hey?! :biggrin1:

I've been to Ronnie Scott's a few times over the years, and I used to love watching the artists with clouds and clouds of smoke passing above their heads. Somehow smoke adds to the artistry - even if it knackers the singer's lungs and shit.

Eddie was the singer for Ten Pole Tudor. It was his band really. He's very enteraining and did a great set with a battered old acoustic guitar....

and yes...smoking galore!

D

[Mr Moore]

How about here?

I've swam in the large pool there.
Very nice Ramon.

[Mr Moore]

Dusk on the Nile. This was a few years back on the river nile, somewhere between Aswan and Luxor.
I would love to go back someday.
I didn't smoke cigars back then but this is me on the pipe !!
Has anyone ever tried a Sisha ??

[Boss Hog]

Dusk on the Nile. This was a few years back on the river nile, somewhere between Aswan and Luxor.
I would love to go back someday.
I didn't smoke cigars back then but this is me on the pipe !!
Has anyone ever tried a Sisha ??

love to try some of that, I hear they flavour them with things like apple and spices. My brother in law has something similar but he sure dont put apple in it though!

[Robusto]

Dusk on the Nile. This was a few years back on the river nile, somewhere between Aswan and Luxor.
I would love to go back someday.
I didn't smoke cigars back then but this is me on the pipe !!
Has anyone ever tried a Sisha ??

May I just say, Mr Moore, that your first jpeg has an uncanny resemblance to Impression, Soleil Levant by Claude Monet which is considered by many critics to be the very first Impressionist painting?

http://www.paulvanrensburg.com/images/208.jpg

Actually...
Close but no cigar.

[Peanut]

Nicwing,

Great pics. I was lucky enough to spend some time down the road in Seillans. First glance at the photos and I thought it was the same place.

very, very special.

[Stogiedog]

I love Claude Monet impressions. What an interesting life he had!

[nicwing]

Saw some of his series of winter hay rick pictures in the Arts Institute in Chicago bloody fantastic!

Took our kids to Givernay (?) when they were young, not sure they got it but we loved it.

Can't get enough Claude.

[Robusto]

les meulnes, I think they are called, Nic. Those haystacks. Amazing.
I love his paintings of the facade of Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art/images/a1_claude_monet_haystacks.jpg

[nicwing]

On the nosey mon ami. Get yourself to Chicago!

I hate Roen Cathedral, not the painting, just the cathedral. A pigeon the size of a jumbo jet shat on me from a very great height when I was there, cycling round Normandy & youth hosteling, my clothes were locked in the hostel all day and I stank, I had to resort to dodging into department stores and dousing myself in aftershave!

"Them damn boirds, I'm not a madam I'm a concierge"

[Robusto]

It must be French birds, Nic.

I was at some French friends' wedding in Paris when the bride received an outsize pigeon 'surprise' Stealth bomber felchsplat over her hair and white dress when posing on the steps of an impressive Hotel de Ville.

It was a fantastic moment. She swore in French, and then shouted for the English people present:

Bugg-air eat. I ave zur bared sheet on mah showl-dare.

All Anglos wet themselves.
Well worth the Eurostar, that was. :biggrin1:

[nicwing]

A Clouseau moment!