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Here’s Looking at You, Kid

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I have been feeling tired since I got back from the cruise and am feeling really beat up lately. Just seems too much is happening and I am not finding time to take a breath. I figured I was burned out with too much work and not enough leisure time and was hoping the cruise would help rejuvenate me. After being back for two weeks I am just as exhausted as I was before the cruise and quite stressed out. Need someone to rescue me I am hoping this does not last too much longer.

When I get a chance I escape into the movies and the one movie I find I can watch over and over again is Casablanca. I am not sure what attracts me to the movie, possibly that I identify with Rick and Ilsa and their great love story which kept getting interrupted and finally was not meant to be. Sometimes I guess it is true that love is just not meant to be.

Very Quotable

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These are the top ten movie quotes according to the AFI site, it is interesting looking at the full list and seeing how many of these quotes or versions of the original quotes you hear as part of common speech today. As a movie buff I find it interesting how many quotes come from my favorite movie Casablanca, there are 6 on the list of the top 100. I have listed the Casablanca quotes below and also the Top 10. Check out the list on the AFI site.

5.   Here’s looking at you, kid.
20. Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
28.  Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’
32.  Round up the usual suspects.
43.  We’ll always have Paris.
67 . Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Here is the Top Ten….

1 Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
2 I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. THE GODFATHER 1972
3 You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. ON THE WATERFRONT 1954
4 Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939
5 Here’s looking at you, kid. CASABLANCA 1942
6 Go ahead, make my day. SUDDEN IMPACT 1983
7 All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up. SUNSET BLVD. 1950
8 May the Force be with you. STAR WARS 1977
9 Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night. ALL ABOUT EVE 1950
10 You talking to me? TAXI DRIVER 1976

If This is Tuesday It Must Be Tanger

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Ran into a computer problem, my laptop has decided to take a holiday of its own and stop working. So I am a little behind.

London was great and while we walked our feet off we did get to see lots of great sites and met some interesting people at the same time. We went to see the Changing of the Guard on Monday only to be told it was only every second day so off we went to visit the Churchill War Rooms and the London Eye with a side trip to Westminister Abbey.

Tuesday we jetted off to Morocco and landed first in Casablanca and then flew onto Tanger. Tanger has the exotic feel you would think it has with the right mix of new and old. On Wednesday we spent the day with our driver Moustafa and our guide Sayed who regaled us with tales of old while we visited Cape Spartel, the Caves of Hercules, the Medina and the Kasbah (More tales complete with pictures coming soon). On Wednesday night we ate in a traditional Moroccan restaurant with Moroccan music and of course a belly dancer.

Friday begins our Spanish adventure with a trip to Toledo.