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

A blurry Gare Saint Lazare by night

Place de Clichy

When is this station ever so empty? Sunday morning...

Holiday lights

...have been strung up on the trees along the Champs Elysées. They don't get switched on until early December, I think, but they're up. Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat...

Père Lachaise

 

Rue de Tolbiac

avenue d'Ivry

Durians for sale, lots of them, piled up on the sidewalk.

Place des Etats Unis

This would be an appropriate post for the 4th of July, but I don't feel like waiting for next year.

Bassin de la Villette

Bibliothèque

The Mitterand library and - more importantly ! - MK2 cinema complex.

... and underground, the entrance to metro line 14.

Olympiades

Love the Chinese style landscapes painted on the big concrete flowerpots.