Volunteer uniform collection day for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The uniform for the 45,000 volunteers at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been available for pick-up since 27 May, and today, 4 July, it was my turn. The Games will be held from 26 July to 11 August and for the Paralympics from 28 AugustContinue reading “Volunteer uniform collection day for the Paris 2024 Olympics”
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NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? – Blog # 21
NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? – Blog # 21. What do I write when I can’t think of anything to write? What’s next in my in-progress Paris book? I started Blog # 19 about the Brain Bank with the same two sentences – and I wrote about the notebook. But now, let’s divergeContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? – Blog # 21 “
Put a ring on it – Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower
Put a ring on it – Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower.
Petit Palais – let’s party at the Little Palace, Paris
Petit Palais – let’s party at the Little Palace, Paris.
NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: I’M FREE FLOATING – Blog # 20
NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: I’M FREE FLOATING – Blog # 20. I’m free floating – freeing my mind from the usual, the expected, the certain in story writing. I’m learning from Anaximander – he’s the Greek scientist who wrote about Earth free floating in space. I can learn a lot from him. I wasContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: I’M FREE FLOATING – Blog # 20 “
George Orwell is Down and Out in Paris
George Orwell is Down and Out in Paris (and London). Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (1933) is a semi-biographical account of a British author struggling to live and work in Paris and London in 1929.
A blank page … a Parisian breakfast
A blank page … a Parisian breakfast.
NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: BRAIN BANK – Blog # 19
NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: BRAIN BANK – Blog # 19. What do I write when I can’t think of anything to write? What’s next in my in-progress Paris book? That’s when a notebook comes in handy. As I think of ideas, I write them in my notebook – fragments of sentences, a delicious word,Continue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: BRAIN BANK – Blog # 19 “
French Resistance – photography exhibition
French Resistance – photography exhibition. The photography exhibition, “The National Council of the Resistance” – the French Resistance – on the railings of the Town Hall of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, from 17 May to 1 June 2024, addresses the theme of the Occupation and the beginnings of the Resistance in 1944.
Elsewhere in France – photography exhibition
Elsewhere in France – photography exhibition. “Elsewhere in France” is a photography exhibition on the railings, or grills, of the Jardin du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Garden) in Paris. A collective of photographers from the Only France agency created the photographs which are on display from 16 March until 14 July 2024. Each photograph tells the storyContinue reading “Elsewhere in France – photography exhibition”