Some photos from the Tuileries Gardens, taken the only real nice and sunny day we had some two weeks ago. Yes, French park trees seem to be square. (Another preprogrammed post, while I’m away in the south, looking for sun.)

I'm off for some two weeks to the south of France, looking for better spring weather and meeting some friends. In the meantime and in order to somehow keep my blog "alive", I have preprogrammed a few posts, content-lighter then usual. So...

A temporary theatre can a t present be found in Paris. It follows the Elizabethan, Shakespeare model, best known for the Globe Theatre in London. This one is smaller, is travelling, assembled during some four or five days. For the momen...

This is not the first time I talk about Lapin Agile (see previous post), but as I recently had the privilege to listen to the present owner, the now 80-some-years old Yves Mathieu, during some two or three hours tell us the story about t...

A couple of days ago, I had a drink with a blogger friend on the top terrace of Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg) in a suffieicently warm spring temperature, although the sky was grey. I took a few zoom pictures. The top one is what you really...

Gustaf Eiffel (1832-1923) is not only the man behind the Eiffel Tower (1889, see previous posts) and a large number of bridges, railway stations and other buildings all over the world (incl. in South America, Asia, Africa…) not forgettin...

Referring to my previous, latest, post about the Belleville area, I felt that with the sudden arrival of spring, I must go back. So, here are a few more photos. How things have changed in a few days! ...and also some more inventive, deco...

Paranthesis: No leaves on the trees... Actually, this is not true any more. I prepared this post a couple of days ago. Suddenly, yesterday, the spring arrived! End of parenthesis.Last Sunday I had the pleasure to walk around for a long m...

There are different concert halls in Paris, but Salle Pleyel is perhaps, together with the smaller and older Salle Gaveau,,the only ones really built as such.Pleyel and Gaveau were both French piano makers, as was Erard. Erard was the ol...

Not easy to get in here, but there are some exceptions... We all know the “Institut de France” from outside. Approaching it on the Pont des Arts, we admire the cupola and we know that it’s the place where all the French “académies” have ...