Paris Out-Takes, 2

Still important in the EU

There are still Minis in Paris

Interesting jacket...Vicki has looked everywhere for it

Has turned up in three different flea markets so far; a repro?!

Still looking for that Sarah Bernhardt Chimaera inkwell for €50

Trump shoe?

Due diligence before purchasing

This watering can at the vide grenier

The shoes are about 200 euro a pair...about 100 pair in the window display...

Fellow bus traveler

Rue Bonaparte

The only film set we wandered onto in 2026...some guy
running down the alley...

Vicki's Biro dream vehicle

Paris is more beautiful in the rain; well, wetter...

Carb fridge magnets

And you thought stockings were out

Three-fer parking

Finally noticed this, after four years, a block from our apartment

Thinking about a new apartment...

Paris Eats, 2026

For whatever reasons, on this campaign we did not get out to the restaurants as much as we might have liked. On the other hand, I managed to gain about a pound a week during our stay...

From a first foray to the nearby Grand Epicerie de Paris, Bon Marche

Steak and Frites...best in Paris...at the Relais d'Entrecote

Mikhail Reydillet's La Parisienne--triple crown winner 
from the 2025 Fete du Pain-- is just around the corner...
and we had a lot of pastries and croissants and baguettes...

Lots of pain=lots of gain

Vicki's baking classes...croissants, then tarts and such...

contributed to the gain

It was perhaps the height of oyster season

Oysters at Louis-Philippe

Oysters at the Marche Bastille

Oysters not pictured at Mollard

Other things, yes

Flaming...

Way too many Belgian frites

We were regulars at the Georges Larnicol shoppes...
kouign amann...the Bretagne orgy of butter and sugar
and chemical traces of flour; above, a emptied pan,
butter having oozed out from the pastry

My main downfall...crunchy butter...thickly spread on baguettes
with jambon, several times a week...sometimes just on baguettes...
sometimes just...

Fruits de mer at La Rotonde

Steak

Seriously good pistache at the Parc Floral

And more fruits de mer, at La Coupole

And crepes suzette...it was National Crepes Suzette Day

Only In France: Children's Philosophy Bookstore

Rue Racine--which leads directly to the Odeon (Europe's oldest still-operating theater)--has a favorite restaurant and also a number of high-end bespoke shoppes...and also a children's philosophy bookstore. That's right. Children's Philosophy Bookstore. We've walked past it several times when it was closed, but this time it was open, and we had to have an extended look.

Nice lime jacket...yours for $800

The plastic-woven bent-wood chairs and tables are at every

cafe/bistro/bar/salon-de-the in Paris (and France); this shoppe 

makes them to order; the above is priced at €2,380; very bespoke

Anyhow here is the bookstore

Thought for the day

The world of the philosophers (Paris)

I'll just let this selection of titles say it all...

Collections

Only in France...probably related to philosophy being 
a required subject in high school, since Napoleon