Last night I got back after four days in Paris with the Flâneur Husband, so here’s an image dump with a little text:
Yes, I figured I’d start with the most garden-related pictures from our visit to Jardin Des Plantes, the botanical gardens where I used to go a lot when I lived in Paris ages and ages ago. It was actually the Flâneur Husband who suggested we could go see a garden, and this was definitely my first idea. And I’d never been into the greenhouses, so it was great to see them from the inside.
And of course we also saw lots and lots of the city in general, strolling around from one pavement café to the next – and enjoying that the weather, although changing, was mainly clement and only once gave us a real drenching. Most of the pictures I took on my solitary morning walks, since I wake up rather early and had a couple of hours to myself each morning before the husband awoke.
View from Pont Neuf towards Pont des Arts
Notre Dame de Paris
It means that some of the pictures were taken in a rather murky morning half-light, but it also means there were very few people around.
Place des Vosges
Tree decked out with books on Carrefour de l’Odéon – opposite Café Les Èditeurs
*sigh*
I do love going back to Paris; it really is an amazingly beautiful city, and one that I think I will always to some extent think of as “Home”, since it was the place I moved to when I had finished high school and moved out of my parents’ house.
Place de la Bastille
Wonderfull pictures. I have never been in Paris, but it is surely on my ´to do list´. My daughte went there in the easter with youth-scool, she was trilled about what she saw.
Have a nice week.
You should go; it’s perhaps my favourite city in the world – in close competition with Rome and Copenhagen – and whatever you want to do, Paris offers it. Fine dining, rustic peasant food, walks along the Seine, museum visits, cheap cafés and romantic piano bars.
(Og man behøver ikke kunne mere fransk end “bonjour” og “merci”, selvom en parlør kan hjælpe med at læse menukortene, hvis man ikke kan fransk.)
Lovely photos of a favourite city! Thanks for sharing.
I could have taken thousands more; I love that city so much. And I love how I can still, 15 years after I moved away from it, find my way around it. I’ll always have Paris… 😉
I love Paris and have very fond memories of a trip their with friends about 15 years ago. I never got to go to any of the gardens though so would love to go back to see them, especially the Jardin des Plantes. Looks like you had a great time.
Great gardens/parcs in Paris:
Jardin des Plantes
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Parc Mont-souris
Parc Monceau
Jardins du Luxembourg
La Promenade Plantée
-And of course the gardens at Musée Carnavalet, Musée Rodin and loads of other old townhouses…
Just saying… Paris isn’t that far from the UK! 😉
We were considering Paris for a week in October but hubby is doing a part time degree on top of full time job and he hands in a final project at the end of September. Figuring he might just want to relax on a beach we’re going to our favourite spot in Cornwall instead. Not quite as exotic as Paris but we always have a great time there. However, your list of places to go has whetted my appetite. I’m sure we’ll get there soon.
Let me know if/when you go; I’ll throw parcs, quartiers, sights, museums and so on at you like you won’t believe it! And perhaps a few good markets, too…
(We also went to the food market where I used to shop every morning when I lived in Paris… I still miss those vegetable stalls and the buthers’ shops!)
what a wonderful place to be able to visit easily….lovely pictures
One of the advantages of being European; we have such short distances to lots of amazing cities! Two hours and you’re in Rome, 1½ hour to Paris, 45 minutes to Berlin… And of course – just outside my windows – Copenhagen in Spring, which is also a rather nice place to be.