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Paris in July: a café a day (6) 27 Aug 2013 | 11:04 am
The Centre Pompidou has been one of the two or three most controversial buildings in Paris since in it was built in the mid-1970s. (The other two I have in mind are the Tour Montparnasse and the Pyram...
Cinq fruits rouges 26 Aug 2013 | 10:49 am
Just a few more photos from the sunny Avenue de Saxe market in July, on this gray chilly August morning in Saint-Aignan. With any luck, our current spell of gloomy weather will end soon. The sun will...
Le Marché de l'Avenue de Saxe 25 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
A while back I mentioned the photos I took back in early July at the Marché de l'Avenue de Saxe in the 7th arrondissement in Paris, near the Hôtel des Invalides, and not far from the Eiffel Tower. I s...
Double whammy 24 Aug 2013 | 01:21 pm
Paris Saint-Aignan I love both. And Callie loves both the moon and the balloon. She went crazy yesterday morning when she saw both at the same time. The top photo shows the Porte Saint-Martin, see...
Le Louvre, and that balloon 24 Aug 2013 | 01:18 pm
I'm winding down my Paris series, though I still have a few days to go in August and plenty of photos that I haven't published yet. Bear with me. This is the Louvre, seen from the other side of the Se...
Four photos from the Fourth Third 22 Aug 2013 | 11:53 am
It was July 6 and I was in Paris for the first time in two years. It's hard to believe Walt and I live so close to Paris and hardly every go there any more. When we lived in San Francisco, between the...
The Paris metro early on a Sunday morning 21 Aug 2013 | 11:07 am
Can you imagine the Paris metro with no people in it? It's easy — all you have to do is go down into a station at about 6:30 on a Sunday morning. As you can see, I had the place to myself. This is th...
Saint-Germain-des-Prés... 20 Aug 2013 | 10:40 am
...including a café, Le Flore. The other famous café in the Saint-Germain neighborhoods is Les Deux-Magots, of which I posted a photo earlier. From the top of the Tour Saint-Jacques, looking out over...
Paris street faces 19 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
Walking around one of the neighborhoods where I used to work in Paris — the area of Saint-Germain-des-Prés off the rue des Saints-Pères — I noticed these two "street faces" or architectural ornaments....
Paris in July: a café a day (5) 18 Aug 2013 | 11:28 am
This is another café in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It's near Invalides, on the avenue de la Tour-Maubourg at the corner of the rue de l'Université. It's a nice urban neighborhood but not what yo...
