French Friday – Our Lady

12 Aug 201612 Aug 2016

Notre Dame (Our Lady), sitting proudly in the centre of Paris holds so much wonderful history. It was started in 1163 and took almost 200 years to complete. It was…

French Friday – Versailles Orangerie

17 Jun 201617 Jun 2016

This vast paterre garden is seen in its full glory in the Autumn when all of the citrus trees are out in the avenues between the paterre beds. As most…

French Friday – Floods

4 Jun 20164 Jun 2016

The rain pours down on Paris as the statue in the Sculpture atrium gazes pensively upwards. TJ Parish Photography© Poor Paris! What has it done to anger the Gods recently?…

Friday – Pie Day (Recipe Share)

20 May 201620 May 2016

I thought that once a month I might do a recipe share. Some place where we can put up a recipe or two to inspire us for the weekend. This…

French Friday – If we can’t be in Paris

6 May 20166 May 2016

Not all of us are blessed with the time or resources to visit Paris as often as one would like. Consequently there may be times when you crave some Parisian…

French Friday

8 Apr 20168 Apr 2016

It's Vendredi! I am bereft! The program I use to tidy up my photos is no longer available. It was wonderfully easy to use and free. Naturally Google bought up…

French Friday

5 Mar 20165 Mar 2016

The Montmartre of Van Gogh's time was a land of fields and windmills. In my ignorant youth I only thought of windmills as a "Dutch thing", but, as paintings of…

French Friday – Medici Fountain

19 Feb 201619 Feb 2016

The ubiquitious Parisian pleasure grounds, the Jardin du Luxembourg was in fact modeled on the Boboli Gardens in Florence to remind the formidable Marie de Medici of her native home…

French Friday

12 Feb 201612 Feb 2016

This is a view to Montmartre from the top of the Arc de Triomphe and it gives a good view of the "Boulevards" of Paris. Now the Champs-Élysées is the ubiquitous…

French Friday

22 Jan 201622 Jan 2016

This is a first in an occasional French Friday post entitled "French Friday - Où est-ce?" So for this inaugural post see if you can tell where is it. Naturally…

French Friday – Motifs

15 Jan 201615 Jan 2016

It seems that there is a trend in Australia at the moment (perhaps elsewhere too) to buy or wear items with random French words on the front. I can understand…

French Friday – Tides

8 Jan 20168 Jan 2016

  Votre seule cohérence est votre évolution. Vous accrochais puis se retirèrent . Laissant de doux souvenirs . Mais avant de revenir "séparation est devenu doux chagrin " . This…

French Friday – Bonne année

1 Jan 20161 Jan 2016

I opened the door with a smile To welcome in the new year Only to find It had knocked and run away Bonne année mes Amis! Welcome to the first…

French Friday – Centre of Culture

18 Dec 201518 Dec 2015

Cee of Cee's Photography has a challenge this week to feature photographs with a centralised image so I have had fun trawling through my photos to find some that fit…

French Friday – Proverbs

11 Dec 2015

I have in my possession a book entitled "101 French Proverbs". Now I am not sure if all of these proverbs are in regular use in France. I know I…