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  • Sunbather looking into Seine Paris Plages 2020
    Life in Paris & France,  Specific Info

    Paris Plages 2020 Includes Covid Testing

    August 13, 2020 /

    Paris Plages is carrying on its tradition in 2020 with sun and fun in this "Eté particulier". Circumstances make this a special summer with daily activities under sanitary conditions. Even Covid testing is included in the activities until August 30. Weekends at the Paris Plages (beach) are very busy. However, visit on a Wednesday and the atmosphere is much calmer. You can even find open deckchairs and parasols! The only line is at for Covid testing between 2 and 6 pm. the average wait time is 30 minutes to 2 hours for two different tests: do you have the antibodies and have you had Covid. Paris Plages is open daily…

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    Needlework Fair in Paris

    January 26, 2012
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    History of Lost and Found-Objets Trouvés in France

    December 17, 2012
    Movie poster of Le Dernier Metro Lost in Frenchlation August 18

    “Le Dernier Metro” Lost in Frenchlation Outdoors

    August 17, 2017
  • image of 2 restaurateurs at Chez Piippo
    Billet d'Humeur/At a Glance,  Life in Paris & France

    New Real Estate for Paris Sidewalk Cafés

    June 2, 2020 /

    It is June 2. Parisians are in front of a café drinking their coffee, chatting with a table mate under a red awning and a bright blue sky. This sounds so normal. But it is another memorable day in history. The restaurants have gone from strictly take away to serving sit-down customers. Location, location. If the restaurant is lucky enough to front a wide space or a wide sidewalk, tables may legally extend way beyond their normal space for now. Outside dining is de rigueur until Prime Minister Eduoard Philippe's next status announcement  or until it rains.... (Click on the title to read more.)

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    Quirky Paris Souvenir Ideas

    April 17, 2018
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    Buying Books For, About and In Paris

    April 28, 2014
    Paris Christmas Ferris Wheel

    Paris Christmas Events

    November 19, 2010
  • Couple with photographer wearing masks
    Billet d'Humeur/At a Glance,  Life in Paris & France

    Fashionable Paris Masks

    May 29, 2020 /

    I am no longer desperate to find just any kind of face mask. Finding a mask has transitioned into its fashionable period in Paris. Face masks are no longer hard to find. They come in various shapes, prices and patterns. One day I saw a mask that coordinated with the skirt a girl was wearing. What would you think of fashionable Italian designed masks? The Italian-designed face masks are sold at the Casino grocery store on Rue Chemin du Vert. Piled together in a cardboard box without any fanfare, they sell for 3,50 Euros. They are comfortable, lightweight, washable, perfect for summer. The Italian-designed and imported to France masks include…

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    Royal Travel on RER C to Versailles

    May 22, 2012
    Image of Paris panorama from a Montmartre balcony at sunset

    Paris Scenes: Balcony, Street & Snow

    February 8, 2018
    Poster with stations closed during RER C summer renovation in Paris until August 27, 2016

    RER C Renovating – Reroute Your Journey

    August 11, 2016
  • image of the Boucherie Bruno Marché Bastille
    Billet d'Humeur/At a Glance,  Life in Paris & France

    Paris Markets Wrapped in Plastic

    May 15, 2020 /

    Life at the Parisian market has taken on a new form. The market is wrapped in plastic wrap. I could only look on. The scene was very surrealistic. On May 13 the markets reopened with new sanitary guidelines. The last time I visited the Bastille Market at Boulevard Richard Lenoir was March 22. Plastic crates separated the shoppers to provide distance. On March 23, the Mayor's office closed all outdoor and indoor markets. The ban did not include the grocery stores. Who needs a straw shopping basket ("panier") to carry around anymore? Market shopping is now available online for home delivery. The delivery order goes through Mayor's Office website, takes…

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    Expo: l’Histoire en Costumes 1890-1930

    April 23, 2017
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    With Kids In Paris At Christmas

    December 14, 2010
    Paris sanisette with familar Eiffel Tower background

    Paris Toilets – Free and Clean, Stylish or Standard

    May 12, 2012
  • Image of the Amelot entrance Repaire de Cartouche
    Billet d'Humeur/At a Glance,  Life in Paris & France

    Le Doggy Bag Concept Expands in Paris

    May 13, 2020 /

    Paris has a new dining style in 2020: Take Away or in French "emporter" in le "doggy bag". All closed for health reasons, some cafés and restaurants are creatively staying in business. At the entry door is a table, display case of food, posted menus and sometimes flowers welcome walk-up guests to place their order. Using a paper bag to carry out your lunch or dinner in France, got its start in 2010. Le loi Grenelle 2 required restaurants to reduce their biodegradable garbage whence came le doggy bag or "sac à toutou". Home delivery from chocolate to sushi to pizza is catching on with riders on motor scooters and…

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    A Parisian’s Closet-A Saleswoman’s Story at Carnavalet

    January 3, 2014
    Metro Poster of 20 years Les Acquisitions du Musée du Quai Branly

    Musée du Quai Branly – Timely Exhibition Opens

    October 3, 2019
    Orient des femmes - Women in the Near East - Musee du quai Branly, Paris until May 15, 2011

    When Bethlehem Was The “Paris” Of Fashion

    February 15, 2011
  • Image of the oldest Gothic bell tower in Paris
    Let's Explore,  Life in Paris & France

    Stroll at La Place Saint-Germain des Près

    May 2, 2020 / No Comments

    Want to travel or go outside but cannot? Visit parts of Paris with Colleen's Paris. Take a bus ride and a stroll (flânerie) with Colleen’s Paris on a 2-minute visit to La Place Saint-Germain des Près, Les Deux Magots and the Gothic Saint-Germain des Près with the oldest bell tower in Paris

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    A Rare Moment in Paris with Frank Gehry

    October 3, 2019
    July 14 Bastille Day Fireworks Paris; photo by Rob Johnstone from a special street; write to me to find out where

    July Activities in Paris

    June 26, 2013
    photo_famille_Stein_1906, © New Haven, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale

    The Steins – Their Adventure in Being Avant-Garde

    November 8, 2011
  • image of resident and mounted gendarmes
    Billet d'Humeur/At a Glance,  Life in Paris & France

    Stopped by the Gendarmes

    April 10, 2020 /

    It is Covid-19 time and I am out for a beautiful, blue-sky morning walk with my camera. The delivery men on bicycles are collecting bags of chocolate for Easter from the chocolate shop on La rue du Pas-de-la-Mule. Walking past Places des Vosges, I passed a cinematographer and a director/producer filming for the gendarmery television network. Two mounted gendarmes were being filmed while questioning and chatting with locals about the document...

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    Paris Travel Around French School Holidays

    January 31, 2011
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    Hotel Raphael’s La Terrasse Bar in Paris

    July 3, 2014
    Take a train to Champagne sur Seine and bike to Moret sur Loing http://www.ville-moret-sur-loing.fr

    Sightseeing Using Trains in Île-de-France

    June 28, 2016
  • Eiffel Tower,  Life in Paris & France,  Photography-Art,  Videos

    Paris Scenes: Balcony, Street & Snow

    February 8, 2018 /

    These are scenes from a Montmartre balcony over Paris while at a party, walking to the metro near Ledru-Rollin/Bastille to attend a conference, snow scenes along streets in the 11th arrondissement heading to the suburb of Bagnolet for a presentation rehearsal between January 26 and February 7.

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    Chess players near l'Orangerie greenhouse at Luxembourg Gardens

    Le Jardin du Luxembourg: Live or Virtual Visit

    November 5, 2020
    Children wearing helmets on ponies at Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris

    Pony Rides in Paris Parks

    March 27, 2014

    Paris Snow and Bus 69 at Dusk

    February 12, 2018
  • painting of à la Petite Fabrique
    Chocolate, Sweets & Bakeries,  Life in Paris & France

    Saying Goodbye to Icons in the Bastille Neighborhood

    January 12, 2018 /

    Living in a small neighborhood of the Bastille, the hardest phrases to hear over the last year have been: "We're closing and retiring" and "They have sold the shop for their retirement": Holmes, the stationery store, and now à la Petite Fabrique, the chocolate factory. Holmes was transformed into an upscale Italian restaurant and word is that Alain Ducasse is buying the Petite Fabrique.... The neighborhood in the area of Hugo's Les Miserables and the French Revolution has gone upscale.

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    Fashionable Paris Masks

    May 29, 2020
    image of rose in the Musée Rodin garden and Rodin's Thinker

    Lift the Mask and Smell the Rodin Roses

    July 26, 2020
    Image in Musée Arts décoratifs entry for Christian Dior Couturier du rêve until January 7, 2018

    Dior-Designer of Dreams at Arts Décoratifs

    August 25, 2017
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