In my new life as retiree my blog is my biggest entertainement and before anything else, I like to thank everyone of my readers and followers to stay with me over the years since November 26 2010 !!! Thank you !!! I decided to trim some of my older posts in my series Some news from France and condense them as not to lose the most important parts, me think, of them, Therefore, this is my new work, the condense news of my belle France, Hope you enjoy it as I
Some news from France LXXV June 5, 2012
As everything French the fashion world is going on with new Galeries Lafayette stores all over the world, yes we are coming at you if you dont come to Paris lol!! It has been announce by the group the opening of five to seven new stores from now to 2015. In the first trimester of 2013 the chain will open a store in Jakarta ,Indonesia. Two stores will open eventually at Jakarta, as well as in Pékin, Doha and Istanbul. The stores in Istanbul and Doha should open by 2015. The group Galeries Lafayette had open their first store outside of France at Berlin in 1996, then Dubaï in 2009 , and Casablanca in 2011. The group ,also,have 55 stores in France, especially the historic store at boulevard Haussmann in Paris.
Some news from France LXXVI June 10, 2012
Climb the famous Buttes-Chaumont park. Do a descend of 20 meters high in the middle of Paris . The comité départemental de spéléologie de Paris(CDS 75)is giving every Sunday an initiation in the parc des Buttes-Chaumont. The thrills are free and the materials is given on site. the hours are from 11h to 18h
The July 24-29 2012 will be the Cornouaille Festival at Quimper. Music and dance of different genres .You can come here on TGV from Paris montparnasse easy. These are parties done since 1923 and ecome a festival in 1982 on. Becoming the most important Breton event of the year, many music and dance is from our region now mine ::) In Vannes you have the 5th edition of the Salon en Bretagne du Livre , book faire at the jardins des Remparts or the ramparts gardens of old castle in city center Vannes.
Some news from France LXXVII June 21, 2012
See a wonderful museum very little known at 6, rue Furstenberg ,6éme. the Musée Delacroix Two wonderful theaters one is the Théatre éphémére de la Comédie Française, pl. Colette galerie d’Orléans du Palais-Royal,Then you have the romantic at the musée de la vie Romantique ,6 rue Chaptal , 9éme until July 15,
In a survery by Le Figaro newspaper , the places Parisiens find the most romantics will have some surprises for visitors, the most is by the banks of the Palais-Royal, with 15,4 % of votes. next came the gardens of the Musée Rodin,with 14,5 % , then comes the tour Eiffel (illuminated version),bringing in 11,1 % of votes, then the steps of the church of Sacré-Cœur,and then the pont Marie, square du Vert-Galant, Bagatelle ,and lakes of the park des Buttes-Chaumont.
From July 25 to August 26 at the prairie of Triangle de la Villette ,19éme you can come to the Cinema in plein air or open air cinema on the program films such as La science des rêves de Michel Gondry, Gran Torino de Clint Eastwood, A History of Violence de David Cronenberg ou encore Virgin Suicides de Sofia Coppola (free admission)
Some news from France LXXVIII July 4, 2012
Now if you have a modern passport French that is you can do the security line quicker, many countries have it, as well as USA. Here in France its call the Parafe,
Musée Rodin until march 2013, great expo on marble, terracotas, and plasters. And for the road or the sitting is the Crazy Horse Paris, with new shows very feminin, by one of my fab areas in Paris, ave George V, see it to believe, right in the center of it all.
Some news from France LXXVIIII July 19, 2012
Paris plage is tomorrow!!! shils wont be there, will run to August 19th only 800 meters of beach will be available and 1400 meters of promenade,on the rive droite, shorter than last year. The reason, is to renovated the road along the Seine river ,Voie George Pompidou on the rive droite . The work will last all summer with traffic closing from July 16. They look forward to enlarge the sidewalks, and make them more accessible to the mobility impaired folks ,and more green space. The next summer the work will make the bike routes on the rive gauche better.
Some news from France LXXX August 2, 2012
There is still time to enjoy the Paris plage or beach until August 12. The musée Grévin is enlarging its collection of about 250 figures. After the recent Scrat, Lambert Wilson, Nicolas Cage, Le Petit Prince,Sebastien Loeb ,now comes Penélope Cruz of Spain.
The chef Camdeborde moved to Le Comptoir du Relais at 9, carrefour de l’Odéon, and the menu is fantastic, one of my all time favorite restaurants in Paris, For ice cream time, you know the Berthillon, and the Amarone, now I give you Pozzetto, 39 rue Roi de Sicile, 75004 at metro St Paul, . Grom ,81 rue de Seine, 75006, metro Mabillon.
Some news from France LXXXI August 22, 2012
We have in Paris coming up the jazz festival de la Villette, a wonderful event in a magnificent arena. August 29th to September 9th 2012 , How about a cruise on the canal by Parc de la Villette, where the boat will cross the rising bridge on the rue de Crimée and cross the Bassin de la Villette before seeing the great Rotonde de Ledoux. Then ,adventure with the levy of the Récollets where you will see the Hôtel du Nord . You will discover the canal Saint Martin in all its poetic turns with romantic passarelles with fishing boats and even those doing theater anchored about . You will go for 2 km in almost darkness under an underground vault filled with light holes of extreme beauty. We come out of this underground marvel into the Port de l’Arsenal and the grand Bastille that you can look up its 52 meters high ,and you enter the river Seine!. wonderful do it ! goes out at 14h30 you get there on metro porte de pantin line 5.
My nostalgic favorite garden in Paris is the jardin des tuileries, because I worked across from it for most of my time in Paris. This was the park i came to relax, drink, walk, and see and be seen in Paris. It was the park that I waited to give time to meet someone in other parts of Paris and not seen to arrive too early ::) It is an inmense park garden in the history of Paris. it is impossible to find in a small space something to majestic of souvenirs and history. We ,all who love this place will prove to the observing readers on the same terrain, to collect the most rich emotions and historical anecdotes and to start with their most smallest of misteries of the Parisien life, their dreams and hopes.
At the musée de l’Armée in Paris, they have a exhibit on the funnies or comics done by Gen Charles de Gaulle, until October 18, 2012.
Some news from France LXXXII August 30, 2012
To open early September the change of the resto Sensing , that becomes Guy Martin Italia 19, rue Bréa, The opening of La Dame de Pic 20, rue du Louvre, 75001, by September 10th. At the head will be the 3 michelin star chef Anne-Sophie Pic (Valence) that is ready to invest in Paris with simple dishes. Welcome opening mat at Ma Cocotte, restaurant design by Philippe Starck,at the flea market of Clignancourt 110, rue des Rosiers, 93400 Saint-Ouen Marché Serpette . After a bit of delay it should open by early October under chef Philippe Amzalak restaurant Bon, 75016. It will have space for 250 persons open 7/7 , it has programmed some tapas for the aperos and simple dishes for snacking easy to go down. More new ones, Pierre Sang in Oberkampf, a restaurant open to the people . And by September 27 the second restaurant of the Palais de Tokyo ,13, avenue du Président-Wilson, 75016),it will be led by chef Gilles Malafosse . The taking over of Grandes Marches, 6 pl de la Bastille, 75012 by the group Joulie that already has in its carte some like ( les Congrès Maillot and Auteuil, Sébillon, Auberge Dab, etc… Ready to open in October. Also, the third Nanashi inside the store Bonpoint, rive gauche at 6 rue de Tournon, 75006 where the chef Kaori Endo is in charge, Finally, there is a second Stube, passage Verdeau(75009),to begin in the fall to conquer the lovers of currywurst and strudel.
The hotel Costes is growing, after purchasing the neighboring hotel Lotti at my old job street rue de la Castiglione (75001) the owner Jean-Louis Costes will add about 40 additional suites that were confied to the decorator par excellence Jacques Garcia, the transformation will begin in at the end of next winter,We arrive at a marvel of Spanish touch now Joselin, this is and old bank with huge volumes and the deco very theatrical , all in gold; including a chesterfield in golden leather! ,and all dress up in red!! wow! To boot it has an inmense hall all laid with tiles and with columns and pylon original of the bank. Well enough of description, the food is fantastic love that espadon in plancha, it is at the Banke Hotel (part of Derby hotels) , 20, rue La Fayette, 75009.
See at the musée des Impressionnismes, 99 rue Claude-Monet, 27620 Giverny The exhibition of Delacroix à Signac designs of the Dyke Collection until 31 October, the evolution of designs in France from 1830 to 1930. In my wonderful Versailles, the expo of Les Dames de Trianon showing in a nice combination of portraits, the women who made the palace famous, Queens, Imperatrices ,favorites of the kings and queens as well as princesses. on until October 14 held at the Grand Trianon.
There you go folks, a big task but a work of love to keep the best, me think of these wonderful older posts over the years, These are what I think worth keeping of my older Some news from France series, and I thank you, Again, hope you enjoy this post as I
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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