Postcards from Paris

The second part of our holiday was spent in Paris. Ten days in one of the world’s most photogenic cities! We normally spend a lot of time seeing friends, which is inevitable since so many of them either travel to France at the same time as we do or simply live there. This time we decided to manage our time more carefully and punctuated our days with small adventures across Paris, experiencing the city like tourists. Despite the freezing cold and motivated by the fact that we had a car at our disposal we explored the empty Jardins de Bagatelle on New Year’s Day and admired the peacocks, took pictures of the skyline from the highest point of the Buttes Chaumont, spent hours at the Porte de Vanves market and bought six small porcelain birds from the seventies for €15, visited the ingeniously structured Le Corbusier house in Poissy (something of an anomaly in that area since it is now surrounded by council blocks), we also watched old films at our local cinema club, resented the huge crowds at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise and spent evenings eating and walking the dramatically lit streets. And of course all hell broke loose when the sales started on the 6th of January! We started to shop tentatively and soon got caught in a whirlwind of enthusiasm and I’m not sure that the evidence of my over-spending should be shown here. I do have a penchant for shoes but this is a fashion blog after all…

All pictures and collages by July Stars