Articles tagged ‘Tips and Tidbits’
More Taxi Talk
By Parisgirl | October 24th, 2006 |
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We were going to walk to the La Defense Metro stop today from the Peogeot Sodexa offices where we dropped off our leased car, but when the receptionist offered to call us a cab, we decided to enjoy the rare cab ride - and do a little research! The cab arrived within ten minutes [...]
Queens and Mistresses
By Parisgirl | October 24th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Last week, many Parisians remained glued to their television sets for two nights in a row to watch Madame de Pompadour. As if that weren’t enough voyeurism into the royal households, Stephen Frears’ Queen has hit the Paris theaters with Helen Mirren providing a captivating interpretation of HRH at a very sad moment [...]
More about Where or What is it?
By Parisgirl | October 24th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Raymond Moretti’s Cheminee d’Aeration at La Defense. I was happy to see the interest in Moretti’s witty decoration of an exhaust chimney at La Defense. He used 672 fiberglass tubes in 1990 to decorate an otherwise gloomy exhaust pipe. You can find some other comments about the site on the website “A [...]
Hunting Season opens early on Parisians
By Parisgirl | October 23rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
It’s normal when you get back to town to ask how other Parisians spent their summer holidays. I didn’t expect to hear my hairdresser (who goes to Normandy for her holidays) tell me that she got shot in the leg on Bastille Day.
She said, “My partner and I were on his motorbike [...]
Where we went . . .
By Parisgirl | October 23rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Yes, it’s mushroom season again. Each year, toward the end of October, we continue the Gohon family tradition of mushrooming in the Touraine region of France (which falls conveniently in the vicinity of France’s most beautiful chateaux overlooking the Loire River).
Judging by the number of cars parked alongside some of the large [...]
Friday 13th and afterwards - Where did we go?
By Parisgirl | October 23rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
I’ve never thought much about Friday 13th, but is it a coincidence that Paris Logue should have ‘disappeared’ on that day? But sometimes a disappearance can be good. In this case, I realized that there are some daily readers of Paris Logue which has to be the supreme compliment. So, [...]
Apple Centers in Paris
By Parisgirl | October 12th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
How embarrassing - trekking all the way across town (to the 9th arrondissement) to find an adapter for a Mac laptop when right here in the 14th arrondissement, at 35, avenue du General LeClerc, there’s an Apple Center called CLG Informatique. I stopped in on my way back from the ’syndic’ or the [...]
Fashion Statement-Sequins- all that glitters is not glamor
By Parisgirl | October 9th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
It used to be that you’d never see a sequin in sight. Now you see them at the strangest times - on ballerina slippers and handbags that benefit in no way from the sequin afterthought. When I see sequins, it makes me think of Michael Caine - who wrote in his autobiography that [...]
Where or What is this?
By Parisgirl | October 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
It looks like a stack of swizzle sticks leftover from your last party. It isn’t.
Answer: Congratulations to kjfitz! It’s Raymond Moretti’s Cheminee d’aeration which he decorated in 1990 with 672 fibreglass tubes. The height is 32 meters.
We’re at La Defense esplanade.
