Romantic Causeways, Film Locations And Hilltop Island Hotels

On Facebook I saw an idyllic, romantic picture of turquoise seas either side of a golden sand causeway where people were walking to an island. The location was in the Philippines. Kalanggaman island.

How do you remember the spellings? The double letters are in the centre, as if ending one word and starting another. I remember Philip pines in the Philippines.

Kalang gaman? No, no space, Kalanggaman. If you prefer, remember, call Kal (KAL, an (AN) interesting, g - g,  (GG) (stammering and can't say gentleman, a man A MAN. The word comes from the word for bird, langgam, in the local Philippine language.

The remote islands have terrific turquoise beaches.

Stoni111121 - Own work in Wikipedia article

Entertainment equipment at Lake Danao

UK flag

It reminded me of two locations in the UK. In the north, near the Scottish border, is Lindisfarne Island, which was used in the roman Polanski film Cul De Sac. The film starts with escaped robbers racing against the tide to reach the island. If you are driving to Scotland from London, England, consider a side trip. You may have to consider tides if you want to get near enough for a photo or prolonged stay.

If you are looking for a weekend away, a holiday, or a side trip, consider including these. After considerable searching, I managed to track down some key words, causeway and home invasion, and made a shortlist of romantic places to visit.


Lindisfarne, England. Pic from Wikipedia.

Causeways
1 Lindisfarne, England
Setting for Polanski's film Cul De Sac
What to eat or drink:
Lindisfarne Mead
Remote.
Causeway safe and high times are listed on signs.
Drive across

2 St Michael's Mount
Cornwall, England

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3 Mont St Michel, France
What to eat or drink:
Crepes with grand Marnier (large thin pancakes cooked in front of you, expensive but worth it).
very crowded in season, summer on sunny days. Check for prices and restrictions. Numerous hotels and restaurants.

Film Locations
Lindisfarne (Cul de Sac by Polanski, a film noir)

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Key Largo, Florida.

Also check out
Island Idylls

Hilltop Castles\ and Hotels


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The Rock Hotel, Gibraltar


Photo by John Cummings under Rock Hotel in Wikipedia.
Hotels Used in Films

Useful Addresses And Websites

Travel

FRANCE
Mont Saint Michel, Manche Basse, Normandy, France.
Tripadvisor has the ten best hotels and ten best restaurants.
https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Hotels-g196646-Mont_Saint_Michel_Manche_Basse_Normandie_Normandy-Hotels.html
Air France
British Airways

GIBRALTAR
I did not get on with the confusing official websites. Some supplied statistics and events and others
were random fun photos.
The most orgnaized clear summary of what to do and where to go was wikivoyage which was also on kosher food which I rearely see as everywhere I look in websites for asia I see notes on Halal food and nothing on kosher.
The Rock Hotel, Gibraltar.
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Gibraltar
https://www.rockhotelgibraltar.com/

PHILIPPINES
Kalanggaman, Philippines.
Video of causeway and turquoise sea
https://www.facebook.com/alwaystraveltogether/videos/878896079116645/UzpfSTY5ODQ2MDU5NjoxMDE2MTgyMDgxNjA3NTU5Nw/?t
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/one-of-worlds-most-beautiful-beaches.html
Air Asia
Philippine Airlines

UK
Lindisfarne Holy Island, Northumberland, England.
visitbritain.com
visitbritain.org
visitbritainshop.com
visitengland.com
visitlondon.com
https://www.cheapflights.co.uk/
skyscanner.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.
(Post being updated today. come back later for more photos and text.)

Films (movies) set on water - nights to remember

Problem
What was the name of that film?

Answer
I have looked up my favourites and listed them for you here.

Starting with the good old, bad old days:
Mutiny On The Bounty (1935).

HORROR FILMS!
Big ships and small boats, panic stricken crowds on Titanic, mutineers, pirates, sole survivors and true stories of sinking submarines.

Story - Watching Titanic Three Times
I watched three versions of Titanic, hired videos for 24 hours from the local video hire shop, in New Zealand when her members of my family were skiing and I had a cold. Entertainment all day. The moral is, if you like to holiday near water, learn to swim and provide enough life jackets for everybody.

Titanic Tragedy 1912
1997 starring Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet. Puts in new elements and removes old ones.

A Night To Remember -1950s, but closer to the original story line which included The Unsinkable Molly Brown. (That's another movie title which was taken from a newspaper headline of the time).

Places To Visit

• Molly Brown's house in Denver, Colorado, USA. I visited this when I lived in the USA and on a travel press trip. Guides showed us the features of her house, no time or inclination to discuss the controversial events on the Titanic. Looking back I can foresee legal issues. At the time I visited survivors were still alive, albeit babes now elderly. Molly Brown was shunned by the local ladies of the day who regarded her as an upstart.
• Titanic complex in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the ship was built. on my wish list.

You can also see underwater documentaries of the finding of the remains of the Titanic.

More Big Ship Movies:

Lusitania
Open Water
The Poseidon Adventure (Terrorists take over a ship which turns upside down and passengers try to escape the Terrorists and the ship.)

Oceans and Fishes
Jaws
The classic shark movie. Several sequels.

Wicked Whales:
Moby Dick. (1930)
Moby Dick. (1956)
Moby Dick. (1981)
Moby Dick. (2010)
In the Heart Of The Sea (2015) researches the 1820 disaster which inspired the novel which inspired the later films.

How about seeing something more cheerful? Have a whale of a time watching:
Free Willie. A small boy saves a friendly, endangered whale.

More Movies On The Seas and Rivers
A Knife In The Water by Polanski.
An elderly couple pick up a young hitch hiker on the way to their boat and decide to take him along. Big mistake. The plot of the movie reminds me of the cynical saying: No good deed goes unpunished. You might wonder how much Polanski's experiences of WWII influence his plots or are echoed by his plots.

Raging Rivers
The River Wild.
One of my favourite films. Stars include Meryl Streep as the endangered mother, with children and a devoted dog, and two new male friends who turn out to be robbers on the run who leave her husband for dead. Plus of course the raging river rapids they all have to negotiate.

DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON WATER
https://www.watercache.com/blog/2011/10/must-see-water-documentaries-provide-insight-into-future-water-crisis

Tips
You will find lists of films in Wikipedia and the movie website.
www.imdb.com
https://mollybrown.org (Also see Wikipedia and TripAdvisor.)
https://www.visittheusa.co.uk

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to my posts.

Jewish Museum in Warsaw Ghetto Open Tuesday Oct 28 2014

Poland was called Paradise for Jews, before WWII. A museum exhibition is designed to celebrate all the aspects of Jewish cultural life in Poland (instead of only death and the Holocaust elsewhere in Poland). The museum itself is all new and modern with a glass exterior.


I saw the museum being built on a tour of Warsaw. Huge and impressive. A wonderful new museum celebrating old Poland. Inside the museum is the magnificent reproduction of the ceiling of a synagogue in the Ukraine.

Near the museum, still standing, is the only surviving synagogue in Warsaw. The White Stork synagogue building was saved because it was used for stabling horses.

You are bound to be taken past it on a general Warsaw city tour.

Jewish and Polish Favourite Food
If you take a specific tour of Jewish Warsaw, you can end at a Jewish restaurant. Most of the dishes you get in London restaurants are Ashkenazi (German and Northern and Eastern European). That means bagels and beetroot soup, dumplings and potato cakes.

As opposed to southern Sephardi (from the Spanish, including Portuguese and Italian Jewish areas, speaking Ladino), which means more rice and pasta.

Most of the dishes I thought were 'Jewish' turn out to be standard Polish fare. Beetroot soup was on the menu of most of the restaurants I visited on two trips to Warsaw. You have several kosher or Jewish style restaurants to choose from. See trip advisor for the latest reviews.

I was taken to Magat restaurant. Tel. (022) 624 99 24.

I suggest you find out what kosher or merely Jewish style food is available on your route, bearing in mind that arriving on sabbath or a Sunday Monday may affect what is open and whether it will be easy to get a table and if you have to book or arrive early.

(If in London go to the Jewish Museum in Camden Town, and/or try B & K Salt Beef bar and restaurant, Edgware or Hatch End. Not for the atmosphere, not for strictly kosher, just for filling food - chicken soup with kneilach - (dumplings), potato cakes, salt beef and lokshen pudding (noodle pudding). You can get food to takeaway and eat when you get home.

Famous Jews from Poland
We have lots of Poles living in London, UK. Who are the famous people worldwide who were born in Poland, brought up in Poland, or who had Polish ancestry?

Cohen, nicknamed Two Gun Cohen, from a Polish family. As a boy he went from London, England, to Canada, to China, hobnobbed with all the famous greats of China, and ended up back in England. buried up north.

Polanski, the film maker, who has immortalised a piano playing pole in the film The Pianist. Polanski has made many films, including Knife in the Water, Chinatown, Repulsion.

John Monash, Australian WWI hero, who has a university in Melbourne, Australia, named in his honour.

Jacob Epstein, the American-British sculptor.

Nelly Ben-Or, Holocaust survivor, who was hiding in Warsaw in WWII, now a renowned musician living in Northwood, England.

Max Factor Snr, who gave us the word make-up. He founded the international company.
Helena Rubinstein was born in Krakow, previously the capital of Poland.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize winner, writer.

Marie Rambert founded Ballet Rambert.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.622797
(Article shows good pictures of the inside of the museum.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_History_of_Polish_Jews