Throwback Thursday

 

Memories of Provence in summer.

 

Above: Bandol's morning market w/its cafés on the port

 

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3 hours (or less) from Paris

 

Paris - Marseille

(around 24 trains per day) 

 From Paris: high-speed TGV from Gare de Lyon; then TER regional train Marseille to Bandol

 

Sit-down Saturday

Bring a coffee, a book, and grab a chair. 

Palais-Royal Gardens

(click to enlarge)

Fountain Friday

Legendary artist couple Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely have been reunited in an exhibition with “museum anarchist” Pontus Hulten.

Above: sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely at the Stravinsky Fountain, Pompidou Center 

Le Grand Palais Champs-Elysées

 Ends January 4, 2026

 

Sit-down Saturday

 

Feet up, an iced coffee, a good book.

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Palais-Royal Gardens

Medici Monday

Unknown to lovers Acis and Galatea the hideous Cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, hovers just above.

Medici Fountain

 Jardin du Luxembourg

 

Fountain Friday

October in the gardens of the Palais-Royal.

 

Fountain café

 

 A café-restaurant on a cul-de-sac is set off by a fountain from bygone days.

Stravinsky lips

Close-up of lips by artist Niki de Saint Phalle, Stravinsky Fountain, Beaubourg Center.

A week in Provence #3

Roaming the charming streets of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence with its shops, galleries, cafés and quiet fountain squares.

Below: dessert Paris Brest - Provence style

A Paris morning

Fountain square off Place Colette.

Autumn square

The beauty of one of the city's many hidden places.

Broom lady

Someone tidying up the park leaned a broom on this massive sculpture.

Fountain lion

A stone sculpture of a lion atop the cascading waters of the Saint-Sulpice fountain.

Palais-Royal

These next days I will be posting photos of the Palais-Royal gardens.

Above: in the background a huge fountain, barely visible, is framed by spires

Wallace fountain

Green fountains named for English philanthropist Sir Richard Wallace are now a symbol of Paris.