Un café crème et un chocolat chaud

When two blog friends from different countries 

get together in Paris on a cold, misty day...

of course they take a break with pastries, 

warm beverages, many photos, and great conversation.

Boulangerie-Pâtisserie de la Tour Eiffel

21, avenue de la Bourdonnais

75007, Paris

Galeries Lafayette - les vitrines de Noël

Galeries Lafayette

(Noël 2011)

One cold day last November, I met my blog friend Vreni (Vreni's Vienna Daily Photo and Verena's Paris Blog) to see a photo exhibit on Quai Branly.  We spent the afternoon walking in the 6ème and 7ème and then rushed to see all the windows of Printemps and Galeries Lafayette.  We worked as a team to get to the front of each window, a challenge with all the little children on risers built to give them a close up view.  

Vreni and I were successful in capturing each window, 

and she will be there soon to brave it without me.

Galeries Lafayette

Boulevard Haussmann

75009, Paris

Printemps - Noël

Printemps

 Noël, Rêves d'Evasion

Last year Vreni (of Vienna Daily Photo) and I spent an evening early in the Christmas season

snapping every window on Boulevard Haussmann.

This is one of my favorites.

She will be there soon,

 and I will miss being there with her to see

 and photograph the beautiful windows.

Printemps
64, boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris

Le Douze et monsieur

Le Douze

Vreni and I stopped by this illuminated window at the end of a whirlwind day in Paris. 

The shop was just closed but we had our next event!

bon weekend

Le Douze
Rue Jacob
75006, Paris

Sergei Loier - Photoquai 2011

On the last day of Photoquai 2011, an open-air exhibit along the Seine at Quai Branly, the dreary day was brightened by the nearly 400 photo images by 46 photographers from around the world.  I met Vreni (Verenas Paris Blog and Vienna Daily Photo) and we enjoyed the afternoon strolling through this free exhibit.

The above by Sergei Loier, a 30-something Russian, was my favorite.  As I remember, his models are all children from an orphanage, and by the time he concluded his photo project, all had been adopted.

What a treat to see this eclectic photo exhibit... on the very last day!

  

Photoquai 2011
musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris