Category: Europe

Pleasure in Paris by Georgie

Restaurant L’Ardoise – Paris

The metro is always exciting, Hector Guimard’s Art Nouveau entrances leading you down into the belly of the city where the colours of the metro lines will magically lead you to another part of the city. Green from our home station, then yellow to Concorde to Restaurant L’Ardoise.   Sounds silly, but I still have a childlike, butterfly in belly moment when we decide which sortie to choose, wondering what is waiting at the top of those stairs. It was light when […]

Picasso and Jacqueline

Musée Picasso – Paris

“Everything you can imagine is real”  – Pablo Picasso   Only a few blocks from our apartment is the Musee Picasso. Picasso’s personal collection was donated to the state in lieu of estate taxes and has been preserved and exhibited by the state since shortly after his death. A private mansion, Hotel Sale was an historic monument owned by the city of Paris and was chosen to house the collection.     We arrive early to the big gates and […]

Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris

Les joies de la flâneuse – The joys of the stroller

“Flâneur” comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”.     Les joies de la flâneuse – The joys of the stroller.   We decide to just walk and take everything in the next day. It’s hard to explain the depth and enormity of the feelings I have as I slowly settle into the realisation of being in Paris. There is a hunger in me that I suddenly realise I have pushed aside for […]

Sculpture Musée d'Orsay

Paris Awaits

Here I am, forty something, standing on the precipice of a new beginning.  I am naturally a giver, and I had spent my life working hard and giving my everything to everyone but me.  Then one day I was given a gift, I was cast aside, given my freedom. I didn’t immediately realise it was a gift, but now I know, that starting a new chapter of my life was starting my time. I have given myself permission to listen […]

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