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Take a seat
We’re relative newcomers to the world of Instagram. Truth be told, we’re relative newcomers to smartphones – until recently our mobile phones could do nothing more than send and receive calls. So quaint. Once we could send and receive images, I … Continue reading
Is there a docteur in the maison?
It began with an insect bite. It was spring, the windows were open, anything could have flown in (French windows don’t have screens). The puncture on my hand was surrounded by a swollen area that got larger as time went … Continue reading
Posted in Paris hospitals, Paris travel
Tagged Cochin Hospital, horsefly, pharmacie, Place Jules Joffrin, S.O.S. Médecins
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The blessings of a Navigo card
I spend a fair bit of time on transit. Getting to work three days a week involves a 10-minute bus ride followed by a 20-minute subway trip. Downtown appointments mean a 30-minute streetcar ride. The Toronto Transit Commission buses are … Continue reading
Dreaming of Paris Bicycles
As I write this, it is minus 23 Celsius outside, even worse with the wind chill. Earlier this week, when I took a walk beside Lake Ontario, the wind roared across the treacherously slippery boardwalk and cut through my coat; today when … Continue reading
A bird lover’s guide to Paris
This is one of my favourite photographs from Paris. I use it as the wallpaper on my desktop computer, so that every day, when I sit down to work, I feel for a second that I am taking my place … Continue reading
Posted in Paris gardens, Paris history, Paris parks, Paris postcards, Paris streets
Tagged Bois de Boulogne, Charles Yriarte, Charmeurs d’oiseaux, Jardin du Luxembourg, La Bagatelle, Medici fountain, Parc Monceau, pigeonnier contraceptif, pigeons, Puvis de Chavannes, Rene Dagron, Richard Holmes, Siege of Paris, Square des Batignolles, Tuileries
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Enough to make a cow laugh
New Year’s is a time of cleaning up and clearing out, and to that end I have unsubscribed from all kinds of newsletters and mass mailings to keep my head clear and my inbox manageable. But I’m keeping a few, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris history, Paris popular culture
Tagged Benjamin Rabier, Beziers, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF, Galerie Georges Petit, Gallica, Gillian Tindall, gruyère, La Revue Politique et Littéraire, La sardine francaise, La vache qui rit, laughing cow, Léon Bel, Les Ambassadeurs, Musee de l'illustration jeunesse, Ravitaillement en Viande Fraîche, Vachkyrie, Wachkyrie
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First we take Manhattan, then we take Paree!
I bought my first Eloise book from a secondhand bookstall at school when I was 9 or 10. It was Kay Thompson’s Eloise in Moscow, and I was captivated by Hilary Knight’s illustrations, including a fold-out view of a wintry … Continue reading
A Doomed Attempt at Out-Eiffelling Eiffel
Even before its inauguration on March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was world famous. Loved by some, reviled by others, it would be the world’s tallest building until New York’s Chrysler Building took the lead in 1930. Of course, as … Continue reading
Posted in Paris architecture, Paris expositions
Tagged Albert Brunel, American Architect and Building News, Charles Baillairgé, Edward W. Watkin, Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel, London Stump, Max Am Ende, Neloah, Public Domain Review, Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Co., Tower Company Limited, Wembley
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Eking out a living on the streets of Paris
Paris has a reputation as a city of glitz and glamour. But in the early 20th century, beneath the glamour, many barely survived from day to day. In London, journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew had written a multi-volume study, London … Continue reading
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