If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

- Hemingway

French men make me sick, always have done. I'm degenerate, but they are dirty with it. Not only in the physical sense either, they have greasy minds. Other foreigners may have garlic on their breath, but the frogs have it on their thoughts as well.

- Flashman

Thursday 6 January 2011

A Picture Postcard from Paris

 So this forms one of the most pleasant morning walks in the world, across Les Jardins du Luxembourg. Not at its best here, they spend the Winter preparing it for lovers in the springtime acting out their own personal clichés.
 La Croix de Berny. How very French to stick a beautiful fountain slap bang in the middle of a roundabout at a busy suburban junction. Probably just because they can...
 Les Jardins on a nicer morning, lovely light falling on the French senate building, formerly a Medici palace.
Bit extreme I felt, and worthy of a photo. The snow was literally 2 inches and yet this woman looks like she is off up Mont Blanc, or even Dundas Street at its worst. Her sherpa is just out of shot.
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