Valentine Mark Herman's Blog – September 2012 Archive (4)
The Polo Mint Adventures Part 3 -- loosing the Polos but finding a real hippy and some Chinese warriors
Bonjour!
This is the third and last episode -- for now -- about my Museum adventures with Polo Mints in the Netherlands.
Just in case you have forgotten what a Polo Mint looks like, here is one:
This episode invovles visits to two Museums -- the Limburgs Museum in Venlo and the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden.
First to Venlo, by train,…
ContinueAdded by Valentine Mark Herman on September 26, 2012 at 8:30pm — 7 Comments
The Polo Mint Adventures, Part 2 -- from Charlotte to Christo
Bonjour!
This is the 2nd of 3 installments in the Polo Mint Adventures.
Here's a Polo Mint, just to remind you of what this is all about -- placing a Polo Mint on a work of art in a Museum, and taking a photo of it -- while trying not to get thrown out of the museum (as happend to me in Bilbao and St Jacques de Compostelle.
I visited the…
ContinueAdded by Valentine Mark Herman on September 25, 2012 at 8:48pm — 10 Comments
The Polo Mint Adventures Part 1 -- or how Val nearly got thrown out of a Museum, again
I stopped smoking (everything, don't ask) on February 1st, 1975.
I was hypnotised, and was told that there would be no side effects.
There was but one -- I became addicted to Polo Mints (what y'all over there call Lifesavers).
Here is a Polo Mint.
I always have a packet of Polo Mints in my pocket.
I realised the hitherto undiscovered…
ContinueAdded by Valentine Mark Herman on September 24, 2012 at 8:49pm — 13 Comments
Mail Art Martha Visited Sigean Today!!! (Monday 3 September, 2012)
She, and her husband, John, visited the Galerie Serrencia where Val introduced her to some Sea Monsters, walked around the the old village -- with Shopping Trolley and Mail Art Display Handbag -- and then went to Chez Val.
After a (very) short sightseeing trip in Oranje, she went to the Intermarché supermarket -- with her Shopping Trolley and a Sea Monster -- and took some photos…
ContinueAdded by Valentine Mark Herman on September 3, 2012 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments
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