Parisian Lifestyle & Love…
“January… is the…
Loneliest… month…
Of… the year”…
Read the heading of the… “journal de jour”…
Our beautiful… elegant… Christmas tree…
Has been… dismantled…
The festive décor… banished down the “cave”…
The postman delivers envelopes… full of bills rather than… coveted glamorous Christmas gifts…
Neighbours… bickering…
Sons and daughter are off to their… “Lycée… université”…
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A Christmas… Chestnut…
A nut… I adore…
On a bitter cold day… à Paris… wrapped up in furs…
While walking towards… our favourite kiosk… in Saint Germain des Prés…
We became aware… of a familiar…
Much loved scent… of chestnuts which were being…
Roasted… toasted…
Over a smouldering fire… on a large toasting pan with holes in the centre…
Emanating a smoky… seductive aroma…
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Paul…
A… boulangerie…
Foundée en… 1899…
Which… we frequent…
Particularly…
On a wet… rainy day…
Like … today…
Paul… is the passionate commitment of…
The Holder family… who have become famous in France… and globally…
For maintaining the traditional… labour intensive methods of bread-baking that has been handed down generations…
The… “big freeze”…
Is on… its way…
Flurries of… snow… hail…
Will be… upon us…
For the foreseeable… near future…
We’re so… hoping… dreaming…
For a… “Noël blanc”…
A very… white…
White… Christmas…
With carriages… in the snow…
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Paris… is icy…
Snow is edging… its brilliant whiteness…
In our… direction…
It’s a cold cold European winter… they forecast…
Fur… (“faux”)… is a must…
Wrapped up… like…
Warm… muffins…
We head to the mega-stores… “les grands magasins”…
Le Bon Marché…
Printemps…
Galeries Lafayette…
For pre-Christmas… window-“store”-shopping…
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Ladurée… “Enfin”…
One of our best-loved… “Salon du Thé”…
On the… Champs-Élysées…
Has re-opened… its elegant portals to its…
Adoring… “clientèle”…
“Et… Voila”…
An oasis… of complete luxury…
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“L’Été… Indien…
à… Paris”…
We’ve been experiencing… the rays of…
A… thousand sunshines…
Which have blessed us… with an Indian summer…
In mid… “presque”… winter…??
Therefore…
It had to be the… “terrasse” of the…
Café de Flore…
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An amazing… experience…
Happened…
On our way… to an exhibition…
Upon… alighting…
From… the metro at the…
Bastille… station…
We came upon… a group of…
Musicians…
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“Zut… alors”…
Saturday… morning…
Paris…
Is in a… foul mood…
Seriously… raining…
Cloudy… with gales blowing…
It’s wet… wet… wet…
“Où vas-tu”?
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A… gypsy…
At… heart…
Having lived… like a nomad…
In many… varied exotic lands…
I immediately identified… with the exhibition at the…
Grand Palais…
“Bohèmes… de Léonard de Vinci à Picasso”…
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