Too Good to Eat?

PATISSERIE WORKS OF ART                    In Paris, and indeed all around France, speciality shops are very important in French daily life. Probably the #1 is the Boulangerie (bakery), but close behind must be the Patisserie (cake shop, or pastry shop). Sometimes the two are combined as a Boulangerie-Patisserie. [...]

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New Kid on the (Trocadero) Block

Musée du Quai Branly (Museum on Branly Quay)
This is a really interesting museum on two fronts: architecturally and culturally/historically. It’s a new museum on the Paris scene, which opened in June 2006, housed in a very mod building designed by Jean Nouvel on a prime riverside site. Behind are rows of up-market Parisian apartment blocks [...]

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Photographers View the World

Paris, long famous as an art city, has also become well-known for photographic exhibitions and promoting photographic works. From late September to early December there are many shows in the “Paris Mois de la Photo”. This was started in 1980 by Jean-Luc Monterosso, who went on to found the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in [...]

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Paris Catacombs closed

One of Paris’s top alternative sights, the Catacombs, are closed for 3 months, November 2007–February 2008, for ‘Travaux” (works). Pity, as we arrived last Saturday, all prepared to go underground! 

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And the Strike goes on…and on…and on

SURVIVING THE PARIS STRIKE…OR NOT
At the risk of being boring, or looking like I’m whining (which I probably am!), I feel I have to make at least one more posting on the transport strike, as it is so severely impacting our life here in Paris. On the one hand, it has been quite informative to [...]

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Crippling Strike in Paris

The next massive transport strike started on November 13, and is now in its 6th day. People’s everyday movement is severely disrupted and tempers are running high. it’s almost impossible to get really accurate information, but each day we walk up to our station in Lozere, on the RER B line, and see the same [...]

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back from USA

Just quick posts today.
We got back fine from our trip to USA—Urbana and then Orlando to see Kev and Joanna (I’ll write about that soon).
But, we only got back to our house here in Lozere just in time, on the afternoon of Nov 13th, before the next transport strike started, on the evening of Nov [...]

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