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

 

Mocha Monday

 

Mid-morning café-ing in Montmartre.

 

Floral Friday

 

Paris florists were busy all week with the Feast of La Toussaint - All Saints Day - as cemeteries filled with visitors placing flowers on the graves of loved ones.

 La Toussaint: All Saints Day

1st November

 

Woolly Wednesday

 

Window of a knitting boutique in a 19th C covered passage in the 9th district.

 

Halloween 2023

 

Carved pumpkins ready for Halloween, with a "French touch."

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- Happy Halloween -

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Dog daze

 

A man and his dogs make the rounds in the Marais district.

 

Marronnier Monday

A marronnier is a chestnut tree and now is the best time to get out and gather.

 Below: chestnuts ready to fall; chestnuts scattered beneath trees

 

 

 

 

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Forageable forests around Paris:

Forêt de Rambouillet
wild boar and hare; several species of deer large/small

Forêt de Marly-le-Roi
numerous species of chestnut trees

Forêt de Bois-d'Arcy

Forêt de Meudon

Fôret de la Grange

Forêt de Montmorency

Bois de Vincennes

Fôret de la Grange

Fôret de Malmaison