Monday, June 13, 2011

Movie Monday: Mary Poppins

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To Europe With Kids presents Movie Monday as a weekly feature to recommend films that might expose children and their families to any small bit of European history, folklore, scenery, or animated imagery as entertainment, perhaps new knowledge, or just a couple of hours of electronic babysitting.
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The classic film Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke is such a Disney masterpiece that I hope you"ll watch it with your kids whether you intend to explore travel to England or not.  The movie was not filmed in London at all, rather at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, but the sets and painted scenery are genuinely enchanting.  If you ever travel by rail across town in London, say from Heathrow to the city, there are stretches where you will be riding at rooftop level and I promise you'll start looking for Dick Van Dyke up there.  The chimneys are so unique.


The songs, the characters, the story, and the film are all absolutely supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!






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3 comments:

  1. Even though my children are 18 and 22, I stumbled on your blog and I am enchanted by it! I am going to link to this post via a blog post on ewindsorpatch.com Love your site. @CruiseDivaNJ (feel free to follow!)

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  2. nice, nice memories.... we LOVED mary poppins growing up. i still think she's awesome :)

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  3. Two years ago we moved from London to Sydney and whilst we love our new life we miss London and don't want our children to forget where they were born. I recently bought Mary Poppins on DVD and we all enjoyed it and it gave us a great excuse to talk about London and the UK. Classic movie!

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