Travel Tuesday

 

 

 

Charming villages, log fires, cozy pubs, farm fresh foods and produce: a too short séjour in the enchanting English countryside.

Below: kitchen table view onto vegetable / herb garden

 

3 hours (or less) from Paris

London 

Flights daily from Paris into Heathrow or Gatwick

By train: Eurostar

+ car rental

 

Mushroom season

Exotic edible mushrooms at a Paris market.

 

 

Warmly

Blankets cozily cover backs of chairs outside a small coffee shop near Bastille.

All souls

 

Père-Lachaise Cemetery on a brisk late October afternoon.

La Toussaint: All Saints' Day
1st November

Street chic

Casual city bag and shoes just in time for fall.

Ralph Lauren
173 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75006

[at same address: RALPH's restaurant] 

Autumn in Montmartre #7

Montmartre can astonish with quiet passageways, artists' studios and single family houses.

Autumn in Montmartre #6

Fall foliage illuminates this street even on an overcast day.

 

 

Autumn in Montmartre #5

  This stairway leads to the street where Vincent Van Gogh lived with his brother Theo.

 

 

Autumn in Montmartre #4

Walkway to a hidden hotel, once a private home.

 

 

Autumn in Montmartre #3

Scattered leaves and a parked bicycle.

 

Above: it's early and below, in the distance, a boulangerie and a café open for business

 

 

Autumn in Montmartre #2

 

Suddenly leaf-covered sidewalks and squares seem to be everywhere.

 

Above: walking their dogs where just a week before there were tables and chairs

 

 

 

 

Autumn in Montmartre

Fall colors seem to be more intense in Montmartre, the hilltop village of tree-lined streets that abruptly rises out of the city.

 

 

Pumpkin on the menu

Pumpkins are in season and showing up on menus either roasted or as velvety soups rather than as pumpkin pies.

Hats off

  A department store display of straw fedoras, still very much in season and perfect for sunny autumn sidewalk terraces.