À la rentrée

 FocusOnParis.com will be returning in September.

Enjoy the rest of the summer! - BPJ

 

An old favorite

Back in the swing of things at Angelina, rue de Rivoli.

Summer sunset

 Summer rains, clouds, a color-splashed sky.

A summer terrace

 

Quiet August days, time to chill with coffee and morning papers.

Craquer

 Amélie prend goût à des plaisirs simples, comme faire craquer la crème brûlée avec une cuillère.- "Amélie takes a liking to simple pleasures, like cracking crème brûlée with a spoon."

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain a film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (France 2001)

Art and architecture

 Surrealism and art nouveau combine to create an incomparable exhibition.

 Catalán artists

Salvador Dalí - Antoni Gaudí

 

Above: Ascension (Dalí)

(click to enlarge)

 

Below: La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona (Gaudí)

L'Atelier des Lumières

Until January 2, 2022

 

Going green

 

Summer zucchini and fennel in a local supermarché await a clever cook.

(click to enlarge)

Concert in the round

Classical concert at the foot of the Basilica.

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Paris in August: What to do

Closed for August

 

Storefronts shuttered for the annual congés d'été.

Season of the spritz

 

Rain or shine summer in Paris is Aperol Spritz time.

Fiddling

Every fiddler he had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he. - Old King Cole, British nursery rhyme

Aperitivo

 Time for an aperitivo on the Left Bank.

Sunset and windmill

 

Every sunset brings the promise of a new tomorrow.

 

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Then, at last, Madeleine’s luck turned. She came across Montmartre. With its windmills, its clear air and the old-fashioned, village feel of its higgledy-piggledy houses perched on a slope.... - Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

 

 

View from a window

 Chimneys and rooftops over Paris.

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. - T. S. Eliot

Peachy keen

 

Peaches (and cucumbers) are back in season.

 

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Cueillir your own fruits / vegetables / flowers 

Best farms and orchards near / around Paris

On the ball

Performing high up over the city at the foot of the Basilica.

Mona Monday

 Yet another Mona Lisa smiles from the side of a building in the Latin Quarter.