Thursday, 28 February 2008

contest


So, since Tarelle asked me to, I uploaded a picture into my profile.

Where was it taken, guess?
Clue: the city has something common with me.

15 comments:

tarelle said...

Eh-eh... let me guess.

Given the amount of marble and the variety of its colours, I would say something like Szent István, am I wrong?

Great picture, by the way, looking so much like you! And thinking about barley, even in heaven. Vive la bière ! Vive le whisky, vive Nana !

lynx said...

barley? whisky? I don't see the connexion...

I would say Pécs , because it has a P in it, like your name :-) or Paris? but it is certainly not the Père Lachaise :-D

tarelle said...

Lynx, you are not credible: you just had a whole week of intensive training in whisky and its secrets.

But you know, for the contest, I think I have more chances: there are four different shades of marble: grey, red, white and yellow. That looks wealthy, you know, to impress the client -- the followers, I mean...

nanaimo said...

OK, tarelle had a very good guess, the type of the institute is that.
Cathedral in English? (Bazilika)

And lynx is very good as well, playing with the names...

Well???

Barley: I can drink a moderate amount of the liquid bread finally! Yesss, all the pain of giving birth was worth it!

tarelle said...

Bazilika is... basilica !

A basilica (for the Catholics) is a Church that the Pope made special by celebrating a special kind of mass (don't ask me which) and by awarding it some special attributes (which conferes it a higher rank among the local churches if I am not wrong, and other stuff I never understood. Anyway this makes it more probable for that church to receive the visit of the Pope when he is in a country and there are big stakes in catholic diplomacy to know who will or not become a basilica). The ugliest of them all is "la Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Paris", without a shadow of a doubt (and this too is part of the definition of a basilica). I think there are some usual architectural features for an average basilica, but I am not sure it is complementary and that is not what makes it a basilica primarily.

Now, a basilica can be a big or a small building (and I think we saw one very small together, lynx, but can't remember where. Belgium?), and it can be or not a cathedral. But it has to be rich with ornaments somehow to have the Pope feel well when visiting it, right ?

Well, well, now. What other grandioso basilica is there out there in Hungary, and which has a link with Ms. Nana ? Now, my knowledge stops. Someone else takes over?

Tank you for reading all through. Now I go to sleep, otherwise I'll get told off.

i said...

Without reading the previous I'd have said Sienna. But its familiar, so it must be Bazilika ... :)

nanaimo said...

Siena, yes, there were some noteworthy angels there but I didn't take pictures of them.
This is a Hungarian one.

Thanks for the architectural (and catholic politics) lesson, tarelle, this was a confusion for me for a long time...

tarelle said...

Now we are playing for real: what is the prize?

lynx said...

I know I know! But am I allowed to write its name? I mean, your incognito would be ruined :-)

Let me put it mysteriously: it is the city north of Budapest right at the Danube's bend that used to be the capital and the royal seat! What do I win???

nanaimo said...

OK, lynx won the prize:
a bottle of O'doul's beer, delivered by me sometime in the future.
This is the only beer with low alcohol content which doesn't taste like a urine sample. And that's what I am drinking right now, the baby asleep, the man is gone, so here I am partying alone..I mean with you.
Virtually.

lynx said...

do you think I could pour some vodka in it? I mean, seriously, low alcohol content? for me? remember, I am one of the few who is not breastfeeding! :-)

lynx said...

...but I definitely appreciate the gesture...

nanaimo said...

Yeah a vodka would do good to it.
I just find it exotic that is enjoyable in spite of the low Et-OH%

tarelle said...

It s so unfair. I had known it for 3 days but didn't want to break your anonymity. But lynx took advantage of my scrupulousness.

Notwithstanding, you can buy out my anger, lynx. A good glass of that O'doul will do!

Keep the vodka... I want to feel like a woman.

nanaimo said...

:) I can lend you some nursing pads (what you put in the bra against the leaking milk), to feel even more like a women.
You won a whole bottle O'doul too, no need to share this rare treasure :)