Our Latest Great Place to Eat - El Vino at The Elysian
Wednesday 21 December 2011
In the final act of the romantic movie Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec shouts from the rooftops to the star crossed lovers, Satine and Christian, played by Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, the words of a haunting song “ the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return”. I adored the romance and Bollywood colour of Moulin Rouge, played out in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, almost as much as I love Verdi’s great opera La Traviata, on which the story is based. Maybe the words of the song are not a bad thought to hold on to and, indeed, I thought of them recently in Cork as I looked across the River at the blue and purple lights on the top of The Elysian Tower, the tallest building in Ireland, which shine like a beacon across the City, and down which Ali Hewsen abseiled to raise funds for the Chernobyl Children’s Project. ...
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ENJOY,
LUCINDA