QOOP and driving through Paris at 180 km/hr

Above: This Little Nightmares drawing was inspired by the squirrels in my sister's neighbourhood who tend to like biting the heads off tulips, much to the frustration of garden owners. For some of my other gardening cartoons, see this Flickr set.

In yesterday's Blathering, I said that Flickr's partner, QOOP, didn't do prints. Hugh Folkerth, QOOP's Director of Consumer Relations, sent me an e-mail today (I have no idea how he found out about yesterday's Blathering, but I'm glad he wrote...especially since he said nice things about my drawings :-)) to tell me that QOOP does indeed now offer prints. "In fact, we have a double prints offer for a limited time on 4 x 6 and 4D sizes, but we print poster-sizes too, which you might enjoy."

I'm definitely going to check out the service by ordering something, but I'm still on the lookout for a reliable online service that will sell prints for me, where I won't have to do the packaging and mailing and administration myself. Thanks to those of you who have sent me tips. I'll be writing another Blathering in the future with an update on QOOP as well as my search for an online print sales service.

Thanks also for all the great Europe advice! To clarify: Jeff and I do plan to return to Paris someday for a longer stay. The main purpose of this trip is to visit with Jeff's mom in Italy; the short Paris trip at the beginning is a special treat for ourselves since I've never been to the city. Anyway, here are some of the useful links that people have posted:

C'etait un rendez-vous: a great short film about driving through Paris at 180 km/hr. From antonia_tiger, who says "It's not that long, and manages to take in some of the standard tourist locations on the way. You don't get much time to actually see them..."

National Museum of The Middle Ages (from Hitch)

Cacao et Chocolat: Yay, the chocolate shop I was looking for! From Mark Bernstein: "I especially like the chocolates in the Imperiale line."

This afternoon I decided to run on a treadmill at the gym instead of outdoors because the weather was colder than I expected, and I discovered an Italian soap opera on the little tv attached to the treadmill. Jeff and I gave up cable tv over a year ago, so I do sometimes surf channels while I run to see what I've been missing. Not much, it seems, at least not during the day...I usually end up watching part of a Star Trek rerun, preferably Kirk-Classic (which we have at home on DVD, but I can't resist Captain Kirk, y'know)...

Anyway, I was curious to see whether I'd be able to understand ANYTHING in Italian so I put on the headphones and listened. And y'know, I did manage to pick out the occasional word or phrase. Like when the somewhat conniving mother called her son on the phone and asked how he was (I even recognized the informal "How are you") and he said he was doing badly. Um, what else. Anytime someone said "please" or "baby" (which was frequently...there seemed to be a lot of angst about people having babies or not able to have babies) or "beautiful." I was especially proud when I recognized the verb "to buy."

Don't know how far this will get me in Italy, but it's a start, eh?

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