Wishful Wednesday

 With travel restrictions still in place last night's apéro was an attempt to re-create the gezelligheid (coziness) of an Amsterdam "brown bar."

 Above: a batch of beef Bitterballen, the fabled Dutch tapas w/two kinds of mustards, washed down w/icy brut cider

Kiosk on a square

 A kiosk adds a touch of color to this small square.

Chocolate dream

Graffiti of a napping man and next to him, a poem about chocolate.

Buds and blooms

Parks and squares are filling up with flowers. It's springtime in Paris.

Doggie style

 

 

A small dog sports the stripey shirt of Brittany with matching jeans.

 Below: a closer look

 

(click to enlarge)

 

New rule

 A new "no more than six together outside" rule goes into effect today and includes coffee gatherings, only this time around subject to fines.

Macarons montés

Pièce montée of macarons in the window of Ladurée.

Five in a row

Five trottinettes outside the Lapin Agile.

Curieux

 

An easy-to-miss boutique on a Montmartre side street caters to the curious.

 

 Above: anatomical charts; specialty candles; skull of a spiral-horned antelope

 

Below: skeleton w/sign, "I am fragile. Thank you for not touching me"; portraits, butterflies, bats, bugs, brains

Curiositas:

Cabinet des Curiosités 

7 rue Ravignan 75018

Bonjour le printemps

 Today is the first day of spring.

L'air du temps

Last night to much grumbling Paris began its Third Lockdown.

Above: crowds during the Second Lockdown two weekends ago at the foot of Sacré Coeur

Flashback Friday

 New day, new rules... 

Above: enjoying a sit-down in the days before lockdowns

Topsy turvy

Upside-down bird painted beneath a window.

Hot wine

 

Hot spiced wine and chocolat chaud to cheer winter's last days.

 

Haussmania

 A Haussmann building with a domed roof commands a corner of a Montmartre street.

Lamp posts for sale

Lamp posts for sale at the Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen.

Café Paris

The talk in Paris is that cafés will re-open in mid April.

 And maybe restaurants.

 Above: fresh croissants and hot coffee en terrasse

Dry run

 

 

Soon after the rain stopped these pompiers left the caserne to get in some exercise.

Mr. Priest

Over the door of a confessional, "Monsieur le Curé" - Mr. Priest.

A lockdown planche

A simple yet bountiful Franco-Italian-themed planche mixte to ease le confinement.

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Merci nos chers amis

Street style

 Casual comfortable gotta-walk-the-dog chic.

A thousand oaks

  

One thousand hundred-year-old oaks will be felled by the end of this month to rebuild the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Above: the spire through trees before the fire
 

Out on a limb

A tree gropes towards the sky in a corner on Place du Tertre.

 

V-Day

 

 

Flashback Friday: a cocktail maison on Valentine's Day.

Throwback Thursday

 

360° views over Paris from Le Jules Verne restaurant atop the Eiffel Tower.

 

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From "Gird yourself"

Maskless

Masks not required bicycling or jogging.

Saint Aubin

 

Yesterday marked The Feast of Saint Aubin (Albinus d'Angers) who, along with Saint Honoré (Honoratus d'Amiens), is the go-to patron saint should you be a boulanger or pâtissier.

 

Mona Monday

 

She's back, in three different flavors.