Summary of article in Billed Bladet #42, 2014.
Written by our woman in France, Annelise Weimann.
The Regent Couple have been at Chateau Cayx for the annual wine harvest. Things seems to go pretty well, but just like any other farmer world wide, PH is never too positive...
Perhaps with some justification this year. Because even though the wine has gotten a pretty good review in the magazine Decanter, wild boars have eaten grapes to the equivalent of twelve thousand bottles of white wine. So he only got ten thousand bottles this yearm and he added lakonnically: "I'll be a poor farmer".
The wine harvest is going on in fact as the article went into print, so it's still too early to say what will be the final outcome.
But apart from the harvest PH has opened his own art museum in the vaults under the chateau. Here he is displaying his rather large collection of African art (*) and a collection of jade pieces.
While our reporter was there a film was being made about the chateau. The film will be a part of small clips designed to promote France.
(*) I learned a couple of years ago, by following the DRF, that virtually all African art is contemporary. In the sense that traditionally art in Africa is made for the present, to be used or enjoyed now and then it will be discarded. Art pieces being handed down through the generations are the exception - outside of collectors circles that is.
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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #42, 2014.
Written by Ken Richter.
QMII opened the newly renovated Moesgaard Natural History Museaum in Aarhus - and that was something that had her interest!
In fact she opened the museum when it had been been build back in 1970, so this is a place she is most familiar with.
After giving the speech and opening the whole show it was time for a tour of the museum, and that lasted longer, a lot longer, than scheduled! Because the Majesty was very interested in curious and she wasn't contend with seeing what the museum had planned for her to see, she took a detour when something caught her interest and that happened a number of times.
- I can almost see her adjutant and LiW trying to drag QMII away from the museum!
This kind of book in North America is called a 'graphic novel' and is wildly popular among young people. No doubt this publication is meant to endear the DRF to the next generation
