Chaalis Abbeys And Primaticcio
When you next decide to go to Chaalis, in the North of Paris, you will be granted three Abbeys for the price of one. One twelfth century job (in not such a good state), a 13th century chapel with a superb…
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Transmogrifying The Needle Into A Parallax View
Tonight’s challenge is “transmogrify”. Killing two birds with one stone, I both learned a new word and honed my blogging skills. I love that Friday challenge. I had plenty of funny pictures to choose from but I selected these few…
Shine: Here Comes The Sun
Today’s challenge is “Shine”. This could be a film or just a selection of pictures. I like that picture above of a building in downtown Seattle last Summer. I spotted that plane up in the sky. It seemed everything was…
Home – The Paris Metro
Home is an easy subject for me when you own the anti museum in Paris. And it’s today’s challenge. I was born here but then my family went elsewhere and then I moved abroad and it’s only (relatively) recently that…
Water Water Everywhere
Today’s photo challenge is “H2O”, i.e. water for those who wouldn’t know. And God knows that water is something we have plenty oh here with rain 1 day out of 3 on average. At least this helps keep the greenery…
Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be
Tonight’s Friday Photo Challenge theme is nostalgia. I like the topic, even though I tend to find that there is a little bit too much of that around us at the moment, and not enough people trying to make the…
Stairway To What?
Les grands voisins, a Utopia village on the former site of the St Vincent de Paul hospital in Paris (14th district). In case you’d really like to know what’s behind the fence, you can catch a glimpse of it on Google…
Quest For A Haven
In June this year we went to visit friends in Le Havre, which means “Haven” in French. The weather in Paris was cold and grotty and when we reached Normandy the sun was shining and it was very hot (that…
Tightening the Belt (one more notch)
Here comes the nice bit of the Petite Ceinture. All in all 6O something km (40 miles) of railway tracks going all around Paris, mostly underground. The part of the track which spans across the 15th district (stretching roughly from…
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