To celebrate the 50 years of Asterix ... and Obelix, the Place de la Concorde (see previous posts) has got some temporary special decoration. The Egyptian obelisk has been completed (fortunately not replaced) by a French version, a menhir. There is...

The Eiffel Tower (see previous posts) can take different colours, including the fact that it’s repainted every seven years. The colours are also brought by light. Here you can first see what the Tower normally looks like during the dark hours. Since...

Today I propose a walk along one of the 12 avenues leaving from La Place de l’Etoile (Place Charles de Gaulle), Avenue Victor Hugo. The walk is relatively long, some 1.8 km (1.2 miles) and may take a while, depending on curiosity, wish to shop, to...

This is a try to follow the trace of Ernest Hemingway in Paris. Ernest made a short visit to Paris during WWI, but he really arrived here in December 1921, together with his then wife, Hadley, as a reporter for "Toronto Star", but with the ambition...

I started to clean up my photo files and discovered a few things that I should perhaps show you... in a complete disorder. The top picture is showing a small corner of the Pantheon (see previous post) and the Saint-Etienne-du-Mont church (see previous...