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In reply to the discussion: Your favorite places to visit? [View all]fierywoman
(7,683 posts)34. Martigny:
In 1971 I was (a 20-year old) at an international festival of youth orchestras in Lausanne, Switzerland. One day the adult staff/musicians were doing a "run-out" to play in a church in Martigny that was along side an apricot orchard. The church was VERY modern: concrete. But it was an exquisite space. I'm not religious, but I was so impressed that the alter area had nothing whatsoever except a table and behind it was a floor to ceiling plate glass window looking out onto the beautiful fields and mountains.
The farmer from next door brought over a big basket of ripe apricots and said if you want more, just pick them.
The "grownups" played Ravel's Introduction and Allegro.
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I've NEVER forgotten that evening so long ago in Martigny!
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Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Monteverde, Costa Rica, north shore MN, Sierra Nevada Mtns., CA
lunasun
Oct 2017
#15
Do you mean "places you ever visitED"? Because that's not the same for me as currently.
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#16
Montreal. Banff. Nova Scotia. Paris. Some day I'd like to go on an anthropological tour
applegrove
Oct 2017
#26
I was able to go to the oldavi gorge and Leakey museum in Ngorongoro which I mentioned above
lunasun
Oct 2017
#36