Viennois

Hot chocolate, coffee, and tarte tatin warm up a late winter afternoon.

Above: add crème chantilly and suddenly it's viennois

Café de Flore
172 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75006

Bagels and locks

Bicycles locked up outside a busy bagel shop.

- Tomorrow: my favorite bagel -

Quiet as winter

Deserted benches and bare trees. It's winter in Paris and I'm in heaven.

Poet's door

A former residence of poet Théodore De Banville.

 

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Nous n’irons plus au bois, les lauriers sont coupés.

 

We will no longer go to the woods, the laurels have been cut off.

 

 

 

Miró Miró on the wall

Since the September rentrée Paris has been awash in heavy-hitter artists - Picasso, Basquiat, Schiele, Giacometti, Mucha, Klimt, Hundertwasser, Caravaggio, more - and now, Catalan artist Joan Miró, who was both sculptor and painter. 

An impressive representation of his work from the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona and private collections will be in Paris for three more weeks.

"Miró Rétrospective"
Ends February 4, 2019

Grand Palais

Chaises rouges

There's something about red.

Vendôme #2

In France it is not unusual to see holiday decorations until the end of January.

Above: two more trees on Place Vendôme