Sadly, the trip is over, but I’ll post more photos soon.
Ça, c’était Paris!
Category: serendipity
An instrumental version of ‘Je t’aime… Moi non plus’ on Radio Nova
Appropriate for 1h17.
A little bit of sunshine at Stalingrad
Random Flâneur
2CV
Rue Debelleyme
Abandoned Velib’
Blue Window
The Seine, towards Pont Louis Philippe
Montmartre rooftops
Door-front
Sacré-Coeur Spire Top
Courtyard
Métro
Turning the past into the future (On Rue Saint-Sabin)
Waiting (on the Champs-Elysées)
The End is around the corner
Bistrot du Marais (Le Marché des Enfants Rouges)
It’s still a surprise when you encounter one of these
My first lunch at lunch time – Au Relais in Montmartre
Salade de chèvre chaud artisanal de Fougeré avec un verre de Viognier, Domaine des Salices, J&F Lurton.
Manifestation organizé par le Fédération Française des Motards en Colère
French motorcyclists are mad as hell because of recent changes on highways, including removal of highway traffic radar warning signs – the government claims road safety as the reason. 30,000 motards were expected to hit the streets of cities all over France. There certainly were thousands in Paris. The government also wants to force motards to wear yellow fluorescent vests and install extra-large licence plates…
It appears this is a Sarkozy initiative: Le Figaro 23/06/2011
Le Grand Palais: quite a place to have wedding photos taken
Context
At the beginning of 1991 I began a two year work term in Paris. A few days after I arrived I participated in one of several anti-war rallies against the first American war in the Arabian Gulf (euphemistically called “The Gulf War”). The march took about three hours and while taking photographs and chanting some slogan or other, we passed monuments, famous buildings and streets – I saw Paris so differently than as a tourist.
It didn’t take me long to fall in love with everything about Paris – except the attitude. Twenty years (and a few months) later Paris is still Paris and the attitude has improved tremendously.
I thought I’d blog about my twentieth anniversary visit. It will be composed mainly of photographs with some nostalgic musings about places revisited and perhaps some new surprises.