This has got be a piss-take.
Who with any taste visits cities "for the shopping"?! I lived in Glasgow for 14 years. After the closure of Borders Bookshop, I used to avoid Buchanan Street as far as possible because of the noise and crowds, only making exceptions to get to Forbidden Planet and the Greek restaurant on George Square ( Read more... )

And as it's 31 August, and even the Grauniad has completely lost its marbles with Dianolatry, anniversary-wise, I'm wearing a t-shirt and locket bearing the image of an excessively pretty 36-year-old who died bloodily in the middle of Paris some years ago.
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His name's Maximilien.

Je m'appelle MarianneVive ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in my new flat, surrounded by cardboard boxes and heaps of stuff. I set off in the removal van before 5 a.m ( Read more... )

With this… He should be lobbing down building materials and molten lead…

I like the sound of this lady… Sadly, I lack the income to up sticks to Paris.

So you know...

• Librairie Philosophique Vrin, Place de la Sorbonne (which does a very nice line in linen shopping bags!)
• Librairie de Cluny (with resident window-sitting cat), Place Paul Painlevé
• Librairie Galerie de la Sorbonne, Rue des Écoles
• (for new books) Librairie Compagnie, Rue des Écoles. (Where I got an excellent annotated and illustrated ( Read more... )

The tower on the left in the 15C painting is the north tower of Notre Dame de Paris.

( If you know the Victor Hugo novel... (click to read on) )