Monday blues

 Familiar blue façade of café/resto Au Rocher de Cancale on rue Montorgueil.

 

Floral Friday

 

CAFÉ PARISIEN

Fresh products - homemade - at all hours

 

A summer garden

 

The gardens of the Palais-Royal bursting with summer.

 

 

Tower Tuesday

 

A suspended Eiffel Tower twinkles in a right bank bookstore.

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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

 

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!"

 

Quaiside

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

 

Right now:

Paris Plages 2023

Ends Sunday September 3

 

Fromage Friday

   

A platter of AOC raw milk cheeses.

- Morbier, Rouelle du Tarn, Saint-Nectaire, Bleu des Causses, Brie Truffé -

 

Le Cellier de la Butte - Caviste

113 rue Caulaincourt 75018

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 🎈 A Joyous Bastille Day 🎈

 

 

 

Wheels Wednesday

 

Paris from the back of a vintage car.

Tasting Tuesday

 

Once again chez Yves Camdeborde's L'Avant Comptoir du Marché.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

 

 

Floral Friday

 

A woman walking her dog stops to cross the street.

Meander Monday

 

Back in Paris and on the streets of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.