Dame Tartine: Best waiters in Paris
Dame Tartine is in the Marais, right on the corner of the Pompidou Centre (a post on the Musee Pompidou …
Category Archives: Places I’ve been
The Louvre
I’ve been procrastinating on going to the Louvre because I just knew it would be a big whoop-de-doo, and I …
Dinner at La Tartine in the Marais
I’d read a review of La Tartine, and it was on my list to try because the architecture looked stunning …
Jardin du Luxembourg, LOVE!
Yesterday was a stellar day. In the middle of it, I packed up my camera and headed to Jardin du …
Painting in the park, smoking, Canal Saint-Martin, dinner at Chez Michel
Today it was a little cooler, so I headed to the park and painted for a few hours in the …
Back to Commerce Street
Well, today everything was open. Now that I’ve been in the stores on Rue Commerce , I don’t know that …
My painting lesson with a French painter
I started painting about a year ago, and have taken 4 classes since then. Two figure classes, one portrait class …
Sunday afternoons, gelato and the heat
As an American, I find it simultaneously uber civilized, astonishing and amusing that Paris basically rolls up the carpet on …
Mass at Notre Dame
I thought maybe my grandmother, a staunch Catholic, would like it if I were to honor her by attending Mass …
Marche aux Puce Clignancourt
This is what I was expecting in the largest and most famous flea market in Paris. Lots of stuff! Exorbitant …
Seriously Paris 