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The Montparnasse office tower towering over some regular Paris buildings.
This is the closest we come to having a skyscraper in town (typical Haussmann buildings for scale). I'm glad someone said stop before they built more.
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I haven't been in an English-speaking country in a while, and it shows.
Me in a English second-hand bookshop in the Latin Quarter just now: "You take card?" 🙈
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15yo is preparing her CV for the compulsory internship coming up this spring. Under "interests" she listed "movies/shows".
I remarked I'd read on CV advice sites to avoid this.
DH simply added "in the original language" to give it value. 🙂
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Apartly frozen lake with snow on the thin ice. Apartment buildings on the far side, blue sky.
After a cold and grey week we got a sprinkle of snow and blue skies today.
I'm off into town to see if there's snow in Paris too. (I doubt it.)
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A Paris métro exit consisting of two metal-framed glass doors. Both are covered in stickers reading (in French) "out of order".
I think those doors might be out of order. I could be wrong, but somehow I don't think so.
(There were much fewer stickers yesterday.)
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A young woman just got on my métro with a pink suitcase, and there's a 50cm tall teddy bear riding on the suitcase. 🥰
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I learned years ago from my Parisian DH what that means.
"Accident voyageur" = they survived
"Accident grave voyageur" = they didn't
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15yo is making plans for her friend's visit, asks about the Musée d'Orsay: "Do they have old paintings in there?"
DH starts answering that the Md'O covers a specific time period (1848-1914) but stops, reminding himself: "For 15yo anything from before 2000 is old."
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DH was working from home today. As I came back from work, he told me: "I fixed the leak."
Me: "The one at the Louvre? That was quick!"
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Mission: Travel to the northern end of my métro line to pick up 15yo's transport pass which she lost at the east side of town. Since we live south of town, on the way back I'll ride the entire length of my métro line, 25 stops. But as DH says, at least I'll be sure to have a seat.
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Looking down a narrow Paris street. At the end of the street there's a building with a cupola.
Walking in Paris on my afternoon off.
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Curious aboit the building with the cupola? Read my blog ⬇️
We don’t always socialize over drinks on Friday nights in #Paris, but when we do, we always have fun! 🍷#expatlife #lifeinParis #anamericaninparis #lifeabroad #lifeinFrance
Nice - Carnival of Nice - Parisian life - wine - wine - humor - CPA
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A Haussmann-style building in Paris with the top of thr Eiffel Tower poking out behind it. A chestnut tree in the foreground, blue sky with fluffy white clouds above.
A 2-way cobblestone street flanked by Hsussmann buildings. The street runs into a métro station with its roof at street level. The métro tracks continue running straight ahead, the street ends at the station. More Hsussmann buildings flanking the métro. Blue sky with fluffy white clouds above.
And then you turn a corner and see first this (left) and then this (right).
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(Métro line 6, Passy station)
When I go to an address in town I've never been to, whether a doctor or something else, I discover a neighbourhood I otherwise wouldn't have gone to. #LifeInParis
On #LettersFromParisAndOtherMissives I shsre a tip for help with orientation:
www.maykenbruenings.com/street-numbe...
This is where we left from and arrived back at last week: Gare de l'Est.
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At the supermarket with DH and 15yo. I love that they leave me (technically the foreigner) in charge of choosing the cheeses (yes, plural).
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After all those years I've lived in France, I still get stressed out at the bakery. I'm here to buy a "(baguette) tradition" but they don't have any just now. What do I take instead? #LifeInParis
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www.maykenbruenings.com/la-baguette/
A small read car parked in a Paris street exactly within fresh road markings that signal a parking spot for bikes.
Spotted this week in Paris. I wondered what was there first, the car or the markings?
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Summer holidays in #France means checking in with Smart Bison before hitting the road. #LifeInParis
#LettersFromParisAndOtherMissives explains:
www.maykenbruenings.com/on-the-road-...
A military helicopter about to land on a lawn (Esplanade des Invalides in Paris) with lots of spectators at a safety distance.
Several military helucoptors on the lawn of the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris, lots of spectators.The Hôtel des Invaludes with its golden cupola is in the background.
A military helicopter about to land on the Esplanade des Invalides lawn in central Paris.
DH wanted to see the helicopters land this #BastilleDay🇨🇵, not take off at the end of the afternoon. So we skipped the parade on tv and came straight to Invalides. Impressive. 🚁
I'd still like to fly in a (civil) helicopter once. At the #TourDeFrance would be cool.
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It's #BastilleDay🇨🇵!
We're home this year and making the most of it. #LifeInParis
What happens on #14juillet? Read on my blog #LettersFromParisAndOtherMissives:
www.maykenbruenings.com/july-14-in-p...
People dancing outside under a darkening sky, apartment buildings in the background, a DJ with equipment and lights under a small barnum in the center background, small French flags run on strings through the top of the photo.
A very tall French flsg covering an approximately 10m high wall.
At the local fire-fighter ball with 15yo. 🚒 🎶 🇨🇵
Last time we went (with visiting friends) was when she was 5.
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There's a really steep street across from our place. I went down there on my bike yesterday freaking fast and the speed sign showed me at 27kph. #TourDeFrance riders go at an average of 40-50kph - on a flat road!
Gives you some perspective.
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In the morning, I listen to a public French news radio station for my dose of news for the day.
Today, it was a quintessential French experience:
Half the program was replaced by music due to a strike, the other half was about the current heat wave in France.
RoW? Tomorrow. Maybe.
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The 2m-high stump of a sycamore on a Paris street corner. A stack of neatly sawn thicker branches beside it, in front two big piles of smaller leaf-bearing branches. In thd background, the street and a Hsussmann-style building façade.
We had a thunderstorm on Wednesday night. Took down a lot of trees in the western part of town.
It's one thing to hear it on the news and another to see this tree I walk past every morning. (This was later on Thursday. But clean-up must have gone on during the night already.)
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We're getting ready for a picnic in town. (We live in Paris.) Daughter chooses a big knife.
DH: "Not that one! You always take knives one can't walk around in town with!"
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14yo got the results (and correct answers) of her road traffic rules test today, and DH and I had a good laugh at some of the questions. 14yo scored 100%. Us? Applying our real-life Paris experience (both on foot and by bike), not so much.
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Forget taxi drivers or cyclists or scooters. The most dangerous category on Paris streets is two-wheeled delivery guys (yes always guys). They don't respect a single traffic rule, not even the very basic "drive on the right" one.
I've had so many near-accidents in my lunch breaks.
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