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I’m guessing that this was submitted as part of the Paris series, but I somehow missed that! Oh well, lunch in Paris works for me any time.
One of our favorite places to pick up a bite to eat while wandering the Jewish Quarter. Pretty popular if not exactly haute cuisine.
This is a lunch line. It’s pretty impressive, perhaps 50 meters long. You may wonder what french delight the draw is.
This is our last submission in this Paris After Dark series, so starting tomorrow we are back to just the morning OTR for awhile.
After our tour on Normandy in 2014, we took a day trip to Mont Ste Michel, then headed back to Paris. On the way we stopped in Giverny for a few hours.
I’m a bit fuzzy on which part of the site these pictures were taken – the captions are my best guess. They are all from early August that year and they were all taken by my wife who has a better eye, not me.
Monet’s house and garden
My sweetie and I visited Paris in December of 2018 and had a little 3rd floor flat a block from the Pantheon and the Sorbonne. It’s a great time to visit, uncrowded and relaxed, and the weather was only slightly colder than San Francisco. This is eight photos out of hundreds. I hope you enjoy.
It’s Paris! You have to have a picture of the Tour Eiffel!
(Our daughter spent a year at the University of Grenoble. In June we headed to Europe to help her pack up for home. Our first trip to Europe since our honeymoon… ) After we left Grenoble we took a couple sides trips (Copenhagen; Trondheim), then headed to the medieval village of Limeuil in the Périgord region of southwestern France, at the confluence of the Dordogne and Vézère rivers. Not far from the famous caves of Les Eyzies. My British sister-in-law’s parents have a cottage there (her father taught at the Sorbonne) and we arranged to stay for a week. And pretend we were French. Sort of.
View of the two bridges that cross the Dordogne and Vézère rivers.
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Our daughter spent a year at the University of Grenoble. In June we headed to Europe to help her pack up for home. Our first trip to Europe since our honeymoon… We finished up in Paris, staying at a youth hostel across the River Seine from Nortre Dame. Affordable even if they had a curfew and we slept on bunkbeds with the washroom across the hall. Breakfast’d with British schoolkids on a field trip and their harried teachers.
View from our hostel room. There was a church across the alleyway, and a shop next to the hostel run by nuns who sold honey & such. Plus an outdoor Moroccan restaurant in the alley with café lights strung overhead. Simple and delicious.
These photos are from a day we spent wandering in the northeastern part of Paris, around the 19th Arrondisement. There is, it turns out, a canal there. We walked a good chunk of it, taking in the sights and the sun, ending at a park called La Villette.
Okay, so I’m starting with a railing. But it’s a nice railing. There are a lot of nice railings in Paris.
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On April 12, 2017, my daughter, son-in-law, and I went with his parents to see the gardens of Giverny, home of French impressionist painter Claude Monet, about 50 miles northwest of Paris. Giverny has two gardens — the Clos Normand, the flower garden in front of the house, and the Japanese-style water garden, which inspired his Water Lilies series. From 1883, when he moved to Giverny, until his death in 1926, Monet oversaw the planting of millions of seeds and young plants.
The Clos Normand has flowerbeds of differing heights and arrangements. Monet mixed the simplest flowers with the rarest varieties. He did not like organized gardens, preferring to plant flowers according to their colors, then leaving them to grow freely.
In 1893, Monet bought the land that would become the water garden with its famous Japanese bridge and pond. This garden includes weeping willows, a bamboo wood, flowering trees and shrubs, and the water lilies which bloom all summer long.
Monet died in 1926. His son Michel inherited the property, later passing it to the Academie des Beaux-Arts. In 1977, a 10-year reconstruction of the house and gardens began. The house and greenhouse had been badly damaged during World War II but the gardens were restored with the same flowers Monet had planted.
Giverny is scheduled to reopen April 19 — the flowers will be waiting! Much more information at http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/fleurs/listflor.htm
In 1883, Monet wanted to turn a small pond, on land next to his property, into an Asian-influenced water garden. Despite his neighbors’ resistance to his bringing in foreign plants, he was given permission to expand the pond by diverting water from the nearby Epte River. Flowers, trees, and bushes circle the pond. The Japanese-style wooden bridge was added in 1895. A few years later Monet started to paint the pond and its water lilies—and never stopped. Today many of his room-sized water-lily paintings are in the Musée de l’Orangerie, in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.
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