Posts tagged Desperately Seeking Paris

One Day in Paris

If you have but one day in Paris, I'd recommend you take yourself over to the Pantheon, a magnificent Neoclassical building with soaring Corinthian columns and a stunning underground crypt. Here is where the great and good of France are nobly enshrined. Luminaries such as Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.

Paris WalksBarbara DonskyDecember 13, 2015Chez Monsieur, Church of the Madeleine, Desperately Seeking Paris, Jean Paul Gaultier, Latin Quarter, The Pantheon, out and about in paris Comments

Meet Me in Paris...

Walking down Lexington Avenue, I catch a glimpse of Paris; namely, the Brasserie Orsay at 75th Street. With summer hanging on in New York, every last table on the terrace is occupied. Am I disappointed? Not in the least, as I'm no fan of sidewalk dining, at least not here in New York where one has to contend with horns honking, sirens shrieking, and that grimy NYC sanitation truck blocking the street.

French Restaurants '15-16Barbara DonskyOctober 19, 2014America for Me, Brasserie, Brasserie Orsay, Desperately Seeking Paris, Finding Paris in New York, Hotel George Cinq, Lexington Avenue, Musée Quai Branley-, New York, Outdoor dining, Poetry, Vin rouge Comments

Le Musée des Art Forains

Of the thirty-plus locations that Woody Allen used in the film "Midnight in Paris," there wasone I didn't recognize, a part of Paris I had never seen. Do you remember in the film when Gil goes to the 1920s party and meets Adrianna in a room with a carousel? The whole idea was so enchanting, but where could it be? Going on-line, I discovered Le Musee des Arts Forains, the Museum of Fairground Arts. Quickly, I added it to a list of places to visit the next time I saw Paris. After all, if it was good enough for Woody, it was good enough for me.

Art in Paris, Paris WalksBarbara DonskyAugust 24, 2014Arrondissement, carousel animals, Desperately Seeking Paris, Film locations for Midnigth in Paris, Le Musee des Arts Forains, Les Pavillon de Bercy, Museum of Fairground Arts, Paris- Midnight in Paris, steeplechase, twelth arrondissement, Woody Allen, out and about in paris Comments