14 02 10

Happy Valentine's day


Well, this year, I have no Baiser de Beaubourg like last year, but a cute little sign that I found in the shopping mall of Le Palais des Congrés at La Porte Maillot, where I rarely go….

13 02 10

Puppets Show!


A lot of big public gardens in France have a Puppets show. No miss Piggy, nor Kermit in there, but Guignol, a on Wikipedia)! Almost all French kids have attended a Guignol show at…

12 02 10

Love PDP!


I know it’s a little tacky, but I could not resist! After all it’s Friday, and the news is not too good in Europe (the Euro is dropping and the employement intentions in France for 2010 is…

11 02 10

More snow...


I know the snow we have currently in Paris is nothing like the one that is currently falling in Washington DC (I just saw the images on the news…), but for Paris it’s quite unusual. So yes,…

09 02 10

Open air toilets


I know it may not be the best taste graffiti I ever published here, but it’s undoubtedly the funniest (that is, providing you noticed the drain pipe on the right!). To be honest I did not find…

08 02 10

Alice in wonderprintemps...


It’s been a while since I’ve shown you the windows of Le Printemps… I passed by this department store Saturday and saw that they dedicated their windows to Alice (Alice in Wonderland of…

07 02 10

Guitar Player in the Metro


I happened to find myself at the Champs Elysées Clémenceau Metro station last evening and I came across a pretty unusual scene. The Paris transport authorities (RATP) had invited 5 musicians…

06 02 10

The home of the homeless?


I think it takes much more than an exhibition to eradicate the homeless issue, but this morning, when I heard about the photo exhibit that the NGO Médecins du monde (doctors of the world) had…

05 02 10

The Grand Rex is more than


I already showed you Le Grand Rex, a famous movie theater located on the Grands Boulevards in the 2nd arrondissement. Well, since last November it has changed a great deal as they added a…

04 02 10

Pont Alexandre III


It’s a classic, but I’ll never be bored with it… It’s the Alexander 3rd bridge, a bridge that was built between 1896 and 1900. Tsar Alexander III of Russia (to which it was dedicated) laid…