Our days of setting up housekeeping, exploring, shopping, continued...we'll get to sight-seeing once visitors arrive....
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On a walk down Rue de Charonne, just off which we live, toward
Place de la Bastille, to check out Septime and Le Bistrot de Peintre |
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| Looking into La Chaiserie de Faubourg |
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| Not making this up; the faubourg is St. Antoine, of 1789 fame |
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| Peering into a hidden alley off Charonne |
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| Opportunities to practice your dendrochronology everywhere |
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On the Rue de Faubourg St. Antoine, a new entry into the Burgeoning Burger
Biz; not sure the Frogs are going to like this, despite the "genuinely good
burgers" and "frogbeer" |
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Orange is the new...wait...wasn't that 2011? Or perhaps this
is the Auburn/University of Florida collection? |
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The July Column in the Place de la Bastille; the old castle/
prison is, alas, long-gone; my mind is busy replaying scenes
from the 1935 Ronald Colman Tale of Two Cities, regarded
by some as Selznick's warm-up for Gone With The Wind |
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| The "new" Opera sits on the old ground |
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| Leave your chopsticks at the door...at a Thai restaurant in our neighborhood |
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Another day we Metro'd out to Les Puces de Saint-Ouen, the big flea market at
Porte de Clingnancourt; although we spent most of our time at the antiques
market here pictured |
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| It's a big affair |
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Few of the furniture dealers permitted pix, so I don't have many; but we were
really impressed with the art deco stuff that seemed to be everywhere (not
pictured here) |
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| In the key-chain store |
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| Alley scene |
3 comments:
I have been reading a lot of classic French works of Late, Zola, Proust, and Balzac. I will enjoy a vicarious tour of Paris through your great posts.
Or, big Brother, it could be the Mercer collection!
Can't wait! Love these glimpses of your new neighborhood.
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