Paris, assez dans l'image

For a change, I thought you might like to see the Paris I saw in pictures, so here are some of them and in random order. A bit like pictorial flaneuring really, if you think about it. Enjoy!

The only way to start the day if you are in France, croissants!

And cafe au lait, of course.

The le Corbeau et le Renard statue in Paris, that will be the crow and the fox for you folks who have read Jean de la Fontaine's fables. Or Aesop's.

This used to be my home-ground when I descended on Paris back in the 80's.

The only sensible way to get around Paris, Velib! which literally means "bicycle freedom"

It is tough being a bicycle in Paris, you can get booked! Just kidding. It was the car that got booked for not displaying a valid parking coupon.

I know, I know, there are always inconsiderate sods out there, even in Paris. Merde!

A nice way to spend the day, at a Parisian street market. The sights, the sounds, the smells, ooh-la-la c'est bon, non?

Oeuf course!

Another way to put your parapluie to use, how ingenious. Sponge anyone?

Ugh, do we have to see this? A sight for sore eyes, mate.

Eiffel, as viewed from the 6th floor of Georges Pompidou Center

You may just be able to trace out what used to be a rampart wall of a fort built in medieval times.

An interesting mural, beats having graffiti on your walls, n'est-ce pas?

A church with the setting sun behind it. Surreal. Very humbling.

Two landmarks for the price of one: Eiffel and Liberty as viewed from the bateaux-mouche on the river Seine.

What looked to be scribblers are no more than artists doing portraiture on the go. As seen on a side street in Montmarte.

These images speaks French better than I do.

The man in the mirror.

Restaurant le Moulin de la Galette, where John and I had lunch in Montmarte. People used to come here for dancing in the late nineteenth century.

Pretty cars all in a row, no prize for guessing the pink one is my favourite.