Rue Ganneron

Rue des Cinq Diamants

Rue de la Butte aux Cailles

Rue Daubenton

Place de Clichy

On the Metro on my way home from work, I sit across from two young men. They're moving a small café type table with cast iron legs and there is enough room on the train for them to have it in from of them, and they're leaning elbows on it and talking earnestly as if in a café. One is white, the other black, and both are so handsome, but in a such a natural and unsophisticated way, that I feel like whipping my camera out and taking their picture.

We get off at the same station, and at the Place people are handing out Ségolène Royal flyers and boisterously exhorting passers by to remember to vote on Sunday. The 18th is traditionally à gauche, so they're probably preaching to the choir, but one particularly exhuberant young woman is calling out,

-Who's the most beautiful ?! Ségolène !!

The guys are behind me now and one of them says,

- She's not that beautiful - well, compared to her competition, like Voynet, perhaps, but not really.

His friend chuckles, and I can't resist commenting,

- Even if she were the most beautiful, it's hardly a reason to vote for her, is it.
- No, but there are other good reasons to vote for her.
- I agree - but looks have nothing to do with it.

We share a smile, and it's such a nice moment. It's a crowded, bustly, noisy intersection, but at times like these it feels like a village.

Rue du Port - Clermont-Ferrand, not Paris...

rue de Tolbiac

A Eurostar ad that's been all over Paris lately.

rue Saint Antoine

Popped out of the Metro at Saint Paul one Sunday morning and realized the semi-marathon was on.

Opéra Garnier

 

Musée du Lovre, extérieur nuit

 

Skating rink at Hôtel de Ville

Avenue George V

No, there's nothing wrong with my camera. This building is being renovated and the scaffolding is covered with big trompe l'oeil panels of typical Haussmanian architecture, but distorted...

Place de l'Hotel de Ville

Eiffel Tower

Gare du Nord

Place de la Concorde

Champs Elysées, with holiday lights

 

Rue de la Néva

Old fashioned elevator in a Parisian building. When I was younger (not that long ago!) most elevators in Paris were like this, now these have become much rarer, replaced with modern "normal" ones that are no doubt much safer - no risk of getting anything caught in between the 2 doors - but with much less charm...

Champs Elysées, without holiday lights

The market at Barbès