27 July 2023

25 July 2023

Tower Tuesday

 

A suspended Eiffel Tower twinkles in a right bank bookstore.

 

 

23 July 2023

Sandwich Sunday

 Generous sandwiches and freshly-made street crêpes at a stall set up outside a boulangerie in the Marais district, but only on Sunday.

 

 

21 July 2023

Starck difference

Exhibition:

Philippe Starck: Paris est pataphysique
 
Pataphysics described as "the science of imaginary solutions," is a philosophical invention of French symbolist and writer Alfred Jarry that preceded surrealism.
 
 Musée Carnavalet
 
Ends August 27, 2023

 

19 July 2023

Spice is nice





 
A shop in Fez or Jerusalem or Istanbul?
No, these exotic spices and wonderful things from all over the world are in Paris in the heart of the old Marais.
 
IZRAËL
30 rue François Miron 75004


 

17 July 2023

Beaux pieds

 
"You have beautiful feet, you know!"

A cordonnerie plays off the famous line from old French film, "Le Quai des Brumes" (1938) when Jean Gabin tells Michèle Morgan, "T'as d'beaux yeux, tu sais!"

Translation: "You have beautiful eyes, you know!"

 

15 July 2023

Quaiside


No sooner was this thoroughfare closed to traffic out came the tables and chairs. 

 

Right now:

Paris Plages 2023

Ends Sunday September 3