"Les Catacombes Rouges" delayed.....

[iRock]

Cool! Looking forward to try your great mansion.

[josephine]

Semi-Native wrote: [quote author=josephine link=1232457826/0#5 date=1233042821]Another aquaMansion!

(Hey Semi-Native, is that Janet Leigh in the shower?)

Sure is! It's how I feel sometimes when Jack is dying a thousand deaths.
:o
Believe me, I feel your pain! ;D


Wow! Can't wait for LCR.

[aquaMat]

Hi everybody....

this is to inform you that beta-testing of

Les Catacombes Rouges

, my latest mansion, is nearly terminated. Thanks to the incredible effort - and time - of Rose and Semi-Native, who are such a great help !

I guess I will be putting in the last

finishing touches

during the next week and then I'm sending it to the admins.

BTW, until very reecently I had completely forgotten that we have this shared mansion which is called

Catacombs

too......while writing the BBBs for LCR I had asked Semi-Native if there was an equivalent word for

les catacombes

in English, can you believe it ???

She reminded me of our

Catacombs

mansion....so I thought maybe I should rename my mansion ??!

What do you think???

Is

Les Catacombes Rouges

unique and different enough (from

Catacombs

) ?  
Or should I better rename it ?        :-?

[Toybox]

Well, 'Les Catacombes' is a very well-established Parisian attraction. Seeing that you use the French term instead of the English one I immediately thought of them and not of our glorious collaborative mansion.

That being said, it probably helps that I am French  

If you like, you can replace it by the more official: L'Ossuaire Rouge.

(According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris the official name for the catacombs is l'Ossuaire Municipal. I didn't know that!)

[Rohful]

Looks like the beautiful yet unique style of aquaMat's! Keep on going! ;D

[Sharpie]

Les Catacombes Rouges

is unique on it's own. I don't think you need to rename your mansion.

[aquaMat]

Thanks, that is reassuring.
Guess I can keep the name..... !

@ Toybox:  I was indeed thinking about the Paris catacombs when I designed + named it. I used the French name to make that connection clear.
I had once visited them, when I was about 16 years old, and I'll never forget that.
I always found it a rather intriguing thought.... that there is a huge city which has a whole system, almost like a maze, of underground catacombs.....  I was always a fan of secret passageways, labyrynths and all that..... that's why they feature so prominently in my mansions.

And even if my catacombs-system is going much deeper down than the real Catacombes, and you only have one small house instead of a whole city above it, I thought it was an appropriate name.

And yes....maybe it was because of the French spelling that I, too, never made the connection with our Catacombs-mansion.  8-)

[Semi-Native]

aquaMat, you'd love working at Disney World, then. There is a huge system of tunnels underneath the parks that employees use for getting around, storage, moving equipment, etc. Most visitors are totally unaware that they exist.

[aquaMat]

Ooh, that's very interesting.....and a bit strange... !!   :o   :-?

Do you work at Disneyland, or why do you know that ??
(I bet not many people do know....)

I remember in the town I grew up in, which had a big university, there was an area for the

university hospital

, actually several medical facilities and hospitals almost like a little district in itself.... and there it was the same, but it actually has a whole system of underground streets !!

They are for the maintenance people but also for medical transports to drive as fast as possible between the different hospitals.
Fascinated me as a kid.....

[Semi-Native]

I worked at Disney World for a year when I first moved to Orlando in the late 70's, that's how I know. I didn't work in the park, though, I had an office job. Regular office hours and days, which was nice.
8-)