Palais Royal - un vélo très cher

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Ua__i89H2NGXiJgneSI04k2KzCDs67qXwLfxLi1UIq5dAbc1nk39zZI46Fu2Rub4fPDcfy4Yy9RLL9K6QHRF-i5M0cg2H5ieKi-KYVPtFTLnh-GaTlURb-3kBwbpxr_8KKhzt-8NtyY/s1600/2013+Nov20+Paris+_20131120+113+DSC_1338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Ua__i89H2NGXiJgneSI04k2KzCDs67qXwLfxLi1UIq5dAbc1nk39zZI46Fu2Rub4fPDcfy4Yy9RLL9K6QHRF-i5M0cg2H5ieKi-KYVPtFTLnh-GaTlURb-3kBwbpxr_8KKhzt-8NtyY/s1600/2013+Nov20+Paris+_20131120+113+DSC_1338.jpg" width="650" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Palais Royal</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you could read the mark on this bicycle </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you would have an idea of its price.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Seen in the upscale shop at Palais Royal </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it was gleaming in beautiful reflective silver as if to taunt me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">...still pouting because Santa did not leave me a bike this year...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">again!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I am joining in <a href="http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/2014/01/windows-in-windows-weekend-reflections.html" target="_blank">James' Weekend Reflections</a> today.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Take a look at other reflections from around the world.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Marc Jacobs</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Palais Royal</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">34, rue de Montpensier</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></span></i></div>

Palais Royal - un vélo très cher

Palais Royal If you could read the mark on this bicycle  you would have an idea of its price.   Seen in the upscale shop at Palais Royal  it...

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Des bouchons

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Ucu68FfqVewcR7-wNEoNkTqxRYw70XTDomuJ9P3OnBDFanGk1fOpiyYiFU2KWSPh_0DmdpNYY8gCcNGeEYO47EsQVRyzaheKxGvcMjlwSj9UTkVYkbsKTmMJ5eY-f0ULgV67WGpX3Go/s1600/2013+Nov13+Paris+_20131113+092+DSC_8631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Ucu68FfqVewcR7-wNEoNkTqxRYw70XTDomuJ9P3OnBDFanGk1fOpiyYiFU2KWSPh_0DmdpNYY8gCcNGeEYO47EsQVRyzaheKxGvcMjlwSj9UTkVYkbsKTmMJ5eY-f0ULgV67WGpX3Go/s1600/2013+Nov13+Paris+_20131113+092+DSC_8631.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wine and Champagne corks</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A wine shop on Île Saint Louis had a window </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">filled with corks.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The light of the afternoon sun </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">made me stop in my tracks </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">before we hurried along </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to meet Paris friends for a glass of wine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rue Jean du Bellay</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Île Saint Louis</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75004, Paris</span></span></i></div>

Des bouchons

Wine and Champagne corks A wine shop on Île Saint Louis had a window  filled with corks.   The light of the afternoon sun  made me stop in m...

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Bressaï - Pour l'Amour de Paris exposition

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDMYjMF3Mqqu-Pm9UaNU9-tklU89_rGfJtGjNu07mLXa0krisdi-2Ep-sM2S-Q5JBpbPfgB7JEo5yVS9Mm4VfG5PTKJsGmOcBD6yUdJiAcRJB4_E36dl9CWNaNyquJTiMHrW0nEEg4X8/s1600/2013+Nov14+Paris+_20131114+083+DSC_8749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDMYjMF3Mqqu-Pm9UaNU9-tklU89_rGfJtGjNu07mLXa0krisdi-2Ep-sM2S-Q5JBpbPfgB7JEo5yVS9Mm4VfG5PTKJsGmOcBD6yUdJiAcRJB4_E36dl9CWNaNyquJTiMHrW0nEEg4X8/s1600/2013+Nov14+Paris+_20131114+083+DSC_8749.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bressaï - For the Love of Paris exhibition</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">November 8, 2013 - March 8, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This free exhibit at Hôtel de Ville is a delight for photographers and everyone who sighs at the romance of Paris.  Even in the first week of opening, the wait was less than 15 minutes on a weekday in November.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Brassaï, Pour l'amour de Paris</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>exhibition tells the extraordinary</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>story of the passion that has united </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>for more than 50 years Brassai, the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>writer, photographer and moviemaker,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to every nook and cranny of Paris,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but also to intellectuals, artists,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>great families, prostitutes and little rascals.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>In short, to everyone who defines the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>legend of Paris.  Paris remains indeed</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>in the heart of his reflection, the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>governing theme of his work. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/brassai" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(www.parisphoto.com)</span></span></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Put this one on your list</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hôtel de Ville de Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Salle Saint-Jean. 5, rue de Lobau</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75004, Paris</span></span></i></div>

Bressaï - Pour l'Amour de Paris exposition

Bressaï - For the Love of Paris exhibition November 8, 2013 - March 8, 2014 This free exhibit at Hôtel de Ville is a delight for photographe...

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