Here's a short slideshow made up of photos I've taken around and in the Invalides over the past 20 years. Hope you enjoy some more armchair tourism (thanks, Mary, for the expression) the way I've been enjoying it.
We are having what might be our last hot day of the summer here in Saint-Aignan. Temperatures predicted to hit the upper 80s in ºF — around 30ºC. It'll be grilled vealburgers for lunch.
Beautiful. Thank you for another Paris fix, I needed it.
ReplyDeleteArmchair travel is a good thing, especially when doing it with friends here. It's going to be 94 in Bham today.
ReplyDeleteLes Invalides are visually so close to my place that this lovely slideshow feels almost like home.
ReplyDeleteHow lucky for you, chm, to have an apartment so close to everything!
ReplyDeleteLucky for us, to have found you, Ken, and these wonderfully entertaining slide shows! Merci, encore, Ken!
Too bad I am not sitting in an armchair - it would be more comfortable. Instead, at my computer "station" I am sitting in a french 'wannabe' with a rattan seat that I have a cushion on (folded up blanket) that I have to keep adjusting for a better seat (ha-ha).
At least the french have recognized how important their history is and they have chosen to maintain their patrimone for future generations and all of us tourists who enjoy seeing it. I continue to read historical french fiction as well as non-fiction about the various time periods in french history to further imagine what it must have been like - both good and bad to have lived in such surroundings.
Mary in Oregon
Mary, I seem to remember that you're involved in some kind of French program. Are you fluent enough in French to read these books in their original version?
DeleteYes, with a lot of help from my dictionaries, chm! We read a lot of books in my classes, too. Right now, we are reading an internet book that is the 2nd in the series of Le chambre jaune. This current one is titled, Le Parfum De La Dame En Noir by Gaston Leroux. It is rather repetitive, but just Thursday, I joked with my classmates, "...well, if we don't get it the first time at least we have a second chance to figure out the idioms!" I am reading Georges Simenon's short stories about Maigret interspersed with my current English "policiers" which I am addicted to! I am also reading Le Rouge et le Noir. Thank you for asking, chm!
ReplyDeleteMary in Oregon