Emily In Paris

Not that we are huge fans--we mostly like the Paris city scenes, and some episodes we've seen just once--but since the chief sites are nearby, we had to see them and add a few more notches to our selfie stick. The basic sites are at the Place de l'Estrapade, other side of the park, a block from the Pantheon. Oh, the hilarious Peyton Manning SNL sketch on Emily in Paris is here. OK, you have to know something about football and Emily.

Vicki helpfully points to where we live on Rue Jean Bart

And to where Emily and Gabriel live, at #1, Place
de l'Estrapade, other side of Luxembourg Gardens

A block from the Pantheon

Place de l'Estrapade and its little fountain; they had Emily's
birthday dinner about where those people are standing; the
dinner where Camille discovers Emily's affair with Gabriel 

Beyond, her apartment building; and Gabriel's

Us, there

The bakery on the square where Emily and Mindy get their morning
croissants et cafe

Gabriel's restaurant

Actually, Terra Nera, a pricey Italian ristorante

Peering in through the window: it was Sunday, closed

Across the little square, a Portuguese/Brazilian bookstore

In Portuguese, of course

Just think, someday there will be an historical marker
for the famous American series about Paris that was so
bad it was actually good [hails of derisive laughter...]

We were not the only people there getting pix

And Two More Parks

We walked through Parc Montsouris after the street market...and then, later, through the Luxembourg Gardens; and then back again to Luxembourg the next evening...

Not in English too; pretty far beyond the tourist zones

The usual beautiful landscaping, care, sculpture, etc.

Abundant historical information...en francais; one of many such
parks developed in the regime of Napoleon III; mainly to keep the
little people occupied, happy...not manning the barricades

Big lake; the whole area was known as La Glaciere because such lakes

provided much of Paris' ice in the 19th century

As always, a Guignol, puppet theater, plus plenty of kid playground

stuff

Lots of joggers on the seeming miles of paths

And now we are returning home through the nearby Luxembourg
Garden

Thank you, Maria de Medici, for the palace of one of Paris' great

gardens; the palace is now the French Senate

Parisians love their parks

The grass areas you can occupy are rotated; three-year-old grand-daughter
Penelope was once busted by a gendarme for singing and dancing in
one of the forbidden lawns

Men doing what men must do...petanque!

Team sport; this is what "let's go bowling, Dude" means here

The string hanging from his right hand is 
attached to a strong magnet, used for picking
up the solid metal balls

A game of inches, I mean, centimeters...

The next evening's promenade in a different part of the park...
mixed boxing lessons and practice

Great sculpture everywhere...and everything in bloom

The poet Verlaine

The physicist Edouard Banly, who taught in the
Catholic Institute around the corner from our street;
discoveries in radio waves, wireless transmission...

A rare scene...American basketball

A copy placed here in honor of the victims of 9-11

Poet of the Piano

Weird cypress, in one of the botanical garden sections

The orchard at the south end is fenced off; contains 
some 600 varieties of pears and apples, among others

Largest buckeye ever, so far

Obligatory Guignol

Huge beautiful park

Two More Street Markets

It was Sunday, we were feeling game and thought we'd try two more of the "spring cleaning" street markets like the one we did in St. Germain the week before...one out in the 17th, on Boulevard Batignolles, the other in the 14th, on Avenue Reille, next to Parc Montsouris...nearly opposite ends of the city...something like 27 stops on the bus, but a great incidental tour of the city...

The whole thing ran a couple blocks, two aisles, in the median of
Boulevard Batignolles

Another beautiful spring day

Vintage collection; there were many of these but I
hesitated taking too many pix...

Nice Holbein copy; the owner cracked up when I asked to take
a photo

In the helmet store

Sword and walking stick shoppe

Lighting shoppe; about as many pros as families
at this vide grenier

Definitely will walk all over you...

More lighting

No strings attached

Nice Guimard Metro station entrance; but we took the bus

Now on Avenue Reille in the 14th, along the border of Parc Montsouris

There must be hundreds of thousands of old and
not so old cameras for sale in Paris...victims of
advancing technology

Nice jewelry display, with abundant qualifications, assurances

Great grand-mere's wedding dress?

Model of a Heinkel HE111...swastikas and iron crosses
removed; they once flew in the skies above

No end to the cameras, including antiques

It was a smaller market, and after a stroll through the park (next post),
we headed on to our next destination; on the way, today's micro niche
market shoppe, the almond milk store

And by the bustop, this interesting old art nouveau,
in need of some care