I've heard that Asterix is also the inspiration for Pentax's top range lenses. Jostein
2009/6/27 Bob W <p...@web-options.com>: > Just back 2-3 hours ago from an extremely enjoyable week in Brittany. I > discovered the dolmen that is supposedly the inspiration for the village of > Asterix - Severalpix to follow. On the last evening I went in search of a > menhir called Gargantua's Finger, but it was in the grounds of a place that > was closed by the time I got there. > > However, not wanting to waste my time, I followed up on something I couldn't > understand on the local 1:25,000 map, and found a wonderful hidden trail, > which I suspect the farmer wants to keep hidden. Along the trail I found > this perfect Obelix-style menhir which is not marked on the map and appears > to have been deliberately hidden in this grove, either by the Christians who > pushed it half over, or by the farmer not wanting the heritage authorities > to know about it. I couldn't get closer because the field is full of crops > which I wasn't about to trample on: > > http://www.web-options.com/Menhir.jpg > > It's not a great picture, but the terrible pun came to me in a blaze of > glory, and I can't resist. > > Here's Obelix, in case anyone out there is not familiar with him: > http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~michalek/obelix.gif > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
