Wine Wednesday

With the Olympics in town a placard outside a wine shop vouches for their champagnes.

 

 

Tuesday temptation

On hot summer days the local glaçier is king.

 

Mocha Monday

Morning coffee in the Latin Quarter.

 PAUL

corner of rue de Seine / rue de Buci 75006 

 

 

Throwback Thursday

 

La ville aux mille fontaines / the city of a thousand fountains with its provençale architecture, open-air markets, rosé wine, ancient streets and inspiring beauty is a crossroads to Italy and the Alps.

 

Aix-en-Provence

Wine Wednesday

 

Everything's OK.

Frenchie Caviste

 9 rue du Nil 75002

 

 

Tête-à-tête Tuesday

 

A secret always has the shape of an ear - Jean Cocteau

 

Mocha Monday

Morning coffee on the Left Bank.

 

Sit-down Saturday

 

Feet up, an iced coffee, a good book.

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Palais-Royal Gardens

Floral Friday

 

 

Roses dominate the terrace at a local florist shop.

Weepy Wednesday

 

 

In the small garden of Paris' oldest church rain streams down the face of a bust of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso.

 

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"The New York Times called her 'a muse of Picasso' and the 'principal model for many of his so-called weeping women portraits in the late 30s and early 40s.'" - Dora Maar: how Picasso's weeping woman had the last laugh The Guardian 11/15/2019  

 

 

 

 

Table Tuesday

Two tables invitingly set for lunch in the passageway behind historical Le Procope.

 

Moules Monday

Monday's plat du jour:

Moules de Bouchot (mussels grown on wooden poles in the sea) fresh from Brittany in a creamy Sauce au Bleu with what else... frites.

Sunset Sunday

 A glorious sunset looking out towards l'Île de Ré.

Fève Friday

 

It's fèves and petits-pois season til the end of July.

 

Above: market supplies dwindle by mid-morning 

 

Below: shelling peas for fresh pea soup

 

 

 

Walking the dog Wednesday

 Walking the dog sometimes requires a break.

 

Travel Tuesday

 

 

A summer séjour in the French countryside.

 

Museum Monday

 

A fascinating look at the history of Paris including its origins as Lutèce during the time of the Romans and reaching all the way back to prehistory, as told by the river Seine.

 

 

Archaeological Crypt of the île de la Cité

(Parvis Notre-Dame Cathedral/Place Jean-Paul II)

 

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 Exhibition:

The Seine: Recovered Objects from Prehistory to the Current Day

 

 

A sunny terrace

 A café terrace on a midsummer afternoon. 

 

Green Fairy Friday

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

 

Above: at the counter of Montmartre café/bar Au Rêve

 

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Dubbed "The Green Fairy" due to its supposed hallucinogenic effects and re-legalized in 2011, absinthe is often associated with artists,writers and as a preferred apéritif of Vincent Van Gogh.

Waiter Wednesday

 

Paris waiters, waiting. 

 

Table Tuesday

 A group of pigeons descend on a café terrace in search of crumbs left behind.

 

Divine design

Though many of Paris' churches were destroyed during the French Revolution, many have survived.

 Above: inside l'Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés w/its elaborate pulpit