Paris in Spring 2008

visit at the Musée Rodin, in Paris, last Sunday





The Thinker (August Rodin)

Sisi

As my little girl, Sisi, is not at her best shape, I felt like posting few pictures about her, because she's just great!

Intriged...

Hidden and not willing to be found! lol

Exhausted, resting in her bedroom...

Curious...


Lovely...

Was looking for me...

Dinner time


Enjoying a sun bath...


With her little stuffed-animal face

Paris (Spring - Summer)

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The pedestrian bridge Simone de Beauvoir, inaugurated in summer 2006

The Quais de Seine and Paris Plage (summer animations and facilities)
Notre-Dame (built between 1160 - 1345) in b&w
Musée du Quai Branly (indigenous and exotic arts) inaugurated in summer 2006 - behind, the Tour Eiffel
Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand (National Library) (1996)

The gardens of Palais Royal

Modern Art NationalMusem also called Centre George Pompidou or shortened to Beaubourg (the name of the neighborhood) - on the street side (you can see the numerous Velib, public bikes you can rent)

Ancient vs Modern

The Colonnes de Buren (1985), next to Palais Royal (1622)

The Louvre from the 13th century and the Pyramide from the 20th century.

The Louvre and the big wheel of the summer little fair in the Jardin des Tuileries

Paris City Hall and the volley-ball (and other free summer sport facilities)

Paris (Autumn - Winter)

The Tour Eiffel through the Mur de la Paix (Peace Wall)

Tour Eiffel & Champs de Mars (beautiful day of Nov. 2006)

The National Opera of Paris, Opéra Garnier (1875)

My favorite area in Paris: Saint Lazare (here a pedestrian street and the famous Printemps store)

The perspective from the Tuileries gardens with the Obelisk of La Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe.

Having a typical relaxing time, around the pond, on the chairs of the Jardin des Tuileries, near the Louvre (you can also see the Tour Eiffel behind the naked trees)
Some modern facilities of Paris: here the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy (shortened to POPB), covered with grass indoor arena that holds musical or sport events (1984)

Opéra Bastille (1989) and the Colonne de Juillet (exactly where was the Bastille prison and the famous guillotine, during the Révolution Française in 1789)

The Ministry of Finance, the POPB behind the trees, the Seine and a Péniche
Parc de Bercy (next to the POPB) and a carousel

One of my favorite place: Cour Sain-Emilion - next to the Parc de Bercy - a pedestrian way with restaurants, shops and a multiplex cinema,
The famous Galeries Lafayette, with their Xmas lights
Each Xmas, you can admire the animated shop windows of the Galeries, suitable for the children and the grown-ups!
The Xmas crowd of the Galeries (and it was during the week!)
The lighted up Champs Elysées by night, facing the big wheel of La Concorde

Facing the Arc de Triomphe
Montmartre and its Sacré Coeur (1919)
The famous Moulin Rouge (1889)
Au Chat Noir, a famous cabaret of the 19th century. The Black Cat stayed a strong reference to the old Paris and Montmartre.
The famous painters and portraitists of Montmartre

PARIS

People tend to say it is one of the most beautiful city in the world.

As a French and Parisian person, I would not be objective but I agree with the beauty, I just don't know if we can place it on top.

Anyway, I like it for the numerous possible nice pictures it offers.

I am still working on covering all the City of Lights, I am far from being done yet!

Here is what I can offer you so far.

Nothing and everything

Chocolate fountain in Brussels - and my friend tasting it with a biscuit!

A piece of a DE-LI-CIOUS light strawberry pie and its raspberry coulis

Studying for the oral part of the first exam of the moto license in my bedroom

As my 25 birthday gift, a friend of mine took me out for a lunch to Kong, where Carrie (from Sex and the City) meets her boyfriend's ex-wife, in Paris.

In the elevator, leaving the restaurant.

Flowers in Brussels