Grab a stool

 

Any 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

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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Recently 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.
 

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