Scary chocolate

Enormous and small pumpkin sculptures made of chocolate.

Patrick Roger
artiste-chocolatier

Meilleur Ouvrier de France

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- Happy Halloween 2018 -

🎃

 

La Toussaint: All Saints' Day 

1st November

Café rouge

A café in warmer weather off the Place Saint-Georges.

All souls

 

Père-Lachaise Cemetery on a brisk late October afternoon.

La Toussaint: All Saints' Day
1st November

Grab a stool

La Grande Épicerie with its tasting counters offers some of the best eating in the city.

Above: truffle ravioli at La Maison de la Truffe counter

Below: bellota ham-cheese planche; yuzu-raspberry-salmon-cilantro sushi at the ceviche counter; Spanish tapas; lobster rolls with truffle potato chips in the seafood section

La Grande Épicerie - Rive Gauche
38 rue de Sèvres 75007

Also: Rive Droite

Petit apéro entre amis

Panoramic terrace chez friends with stunning views of Eiffel Tower and sunset.

Spiderbread

With Halloween days away a giant spider, made to look black with poppy seeds, takes up a bakery window.

Just enough

Seafood apéritif standing at a counter inside a Marais fish shop open late.

Autumn on its way

October light sifts through branches behind this métro station.

[Solférino station was opened November 5, 1910. Originally part of the Nord-Sud Company's Line A it became Line 12 on March 27, 1931]

Blue to pink

Pablo Picasso's pink period was an outgrowth of his more somber blue.

 "Picasso. Bleu et Rose"
 Ends January 6, 2019

Musée d'Orsay

3 hours (or less) from Paris: Berlin

A few days ago I managed to squeeze in an overnight trip to Berlin. As my meeting coincided with friends visiting the city I was able to get in some sightseeing.

Above: installation wall art; astonishing architecture at the Sony Center; leafy intersection; hotel hangout at breakfast

Below: night shot of Berlin's landmark Fernsehturm (TV tower); tattoo nightcap; a Biergarten at dusk

  

 

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Mini-trip: Berlin

Paris-Berlin 

Direct flights daily (1-hr 50 min) from CDG Airport

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Addresses / more photos in November newsletter plus:

 

- Mini-trip: Heidelberg

- Mini-trip: Nuremberg

 

Also:

From Salzburg to Innsbruck

 

Klimt / Hundertwasser, final weeks

Good news:

L'Atelier des Lumières has prolonged its Klimt-Hundertwasser total immersion experience.

 

Ends January 6, 2019

Viennese artists
Gustav Klimt

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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- Tomorrow: Ich war ein Berliner -
3 hours (or less) from Paris

Montmartre en fête #4

Above: more from the food fair at the top of the butte

Until next year... Tchin!

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Tomorrow: a bewitching exhibition extended:

L’Atelier des Lumières

 

Montmartre en fête #3

During the wine harvest festivities a street food extravaganza went on for four days, with stalls set up on small streets at the foot of the Basilica.

Montmartre en fête #2

More scenes from Montmartre's annual wine harvest parade including Capoeira, the Brazilian martial art that combines elements of fight, dance, music, and acrobatics.

Below: behind the parade a clean sweep at the end

  

- Tomorrow: and the party went on... -

- Festival street food, Montmartre village -