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Juan Ramon Gomis blogs about walking and climbing in the mountains, taking pictures of this travelling in Europe here and looking at flowers, here. In this article, he reflects on the Catskills Mountains. My blog, collects quotes about Mountains, here I share some interesting reflections from the culture on the Catskill Mountains in the United States of America: Woody Allen and a host of Jewish Comedy writers have featured the Catskill mountains in their works. In the best Allen movie of them all, Annie Hall, Allen wrote the classic Catskill joke about two old presumably Jewish women who at one of the holiday camps in the mountains. One says to the other that “the food at this place is really terrible." To which the other replies: "Yeah, I know, and such small portions." Allen commen...