Category: Paris Awakes

Room with a view. Le Marais, Paris.

Le Marais – Paris

‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay.”  – Jojo Moyes, Me Before You Our first Apartment is in the Marais. I love it! The Marais is the quartier historique, charming, pretty, very old Paris.     We wind our way into the tiniest of […]

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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