À la place de la Bastille ! Et sur le marché aux puces !

Our days of setting up housekeeping, exploring, shopping, continued...we'll get to sight-seeing once visitors arrive....

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

Looking into La Chaiserie de Faubourg

Not making this up; the faubourg is St. Antoine, of 1789 fame

Peering into a hidden alley off Charonne

Opportunities to practice your dendrochronology everywhere

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"

Orange is the new...wait...wasn't that 2011? Or perhaps this
is the Auburn/University of Florida collection?

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

The "new" Opera sits on the old ground

Leave your chopsticks at the door...at a Thai restaurant in our neighborhood

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

It's a big affair

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)

In the key-chain store

Alley scene

Plus randonnée divers

At Place de la Nation

Ditto; Place du George Orwell is nearby

Along Blvd. Voltaire; alas, they're not $4.99
a piece like at Costco

Only in France...

Making crepes on the Champs Elysees

Big guy, big strides

Church of the Madeleine...on the site of a synagogue razed
in the 12th century; originally, under Napoleon, to be a temple
to the Grand Army; later just a neo-classical Catholic parish
church...one of the largest neo-classical temples anywhere

We're no longer going to Bed, Bath, and Beyond for housewares

"These stilettos are made for walkin'...and that's just what
they'll do..."

Entree at Nicolas Flamel

Randonnée divers

A restaurant a few blocks away, near Pere Lachaise, where
we had lunch with Tawana and Wes two years ago

In the nearby 3rd, a fashion district...mostly wholesale

Also retro

Rainy day field trip to Nicolas Flamel, oldest house in Paris

Waiting for green light

Love the Metro, next to walking

Place de la Republique

Couldn't they have named it East Side Broccoli
or East Side Artichoke?

Men doing what men must do...at Place de la Nation

Nous Vivons A Paris

So. Maintenant, nous vivons à Paris, à la fin du mois de juillet. Dans le 11e arrondissement. Nous ferons plutôt moins les visites et plus juste qui vivent ici et le blog va changer en conséquence. Probablement moins d'entrées et surtout plus curiosités et les incidents. Et les visites de ses amis et de sa famille.*

Where we live...just to the left of the big green splotch on the right, that is, the
Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise; sort of in the neighborhood of Place de la Nation

"We'll always have Paris"..."well, at least through July 31st"

*So. We're living now in Paris, at least until the end of July. In the 11th arrondissement. We'll be just living here and not so much sight-seeing, and the blog will change accordingly. Probably fewer entries and more curiosities and incidents. And visits from family and friends.

Barcelona Out-Takes, 2014

Incipient shoe line at the Roman wall

Something new to us: jambon cones; yummy, too

At the priestly vestments store: a traveling
cocktail set

Condominium

The Last Cookie

La Rambla fixture

They really like Wagner in Barcelona

Renovation work at La Pedrera; note sophisticated safety
shield

In the apartment bathroom at La Pedrera; for
very precise enemas?

Moonshine and marble?

Today's wedding (running gag)

Doorman at Casa Comalot: "Now go away,
or I shall taunt you a second time!"

Door to nowhere...above a landing on the
stairwell in our hotel; but a really nice door

Chocolate strawberry kabobs at the Bouquerie

Sangria popsicles

National animal and nut

Demon absinthe

Spanish patisseries are out-of-sight

Needs a caption but is so full of meanings and symbols and
possibilities and...I can't decide