Joyeux

One of my favorite Paris hangouts, spruced up for the holidays.

Café de Flore
172 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75006

To my devoted visitors, blog stalkers and drop-ins:
I will be returning after the holidays.

 

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Here's wishing every one of you a very Merry and Happy everything, and an effervescent New Year.

See you in January - BPJ

Back in time

Early morning and Place du Tertre is eerily transformed into the village square it once was before tourists and souvenir shops took over.

Above: twinkling Christmas lights left on all night;
main street just off the square minus crowds and postcard stands

The singer

Man plays guitar to backdrop of a Christmas market on Place des Abbesses.

Nativity ball

Nativity scene inside a giant inflated ball in front of l'Église Saint-Pierre in Montmartre.

Montmartre dawn

Sunrise over the city on a brisk December morning. 

 

 

Not just men

At a busy café on rue de Rennes a waitress sports the white tablier and black vest traditionally worn by Parisian waiters.

Behind doors

Double doors of what appears to be an ordinary apartment building conceal a long passageway.