“Le 14 Juillet" PBers!
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Bastille Day!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Paris in an envelope💌
You’ve got Paris mail📮
💌 carol gillott 💌
- Parisbreakfasts
- l'Ile Saint Louis, Paris, Ile de France, France
- Bonjour ! I’m Carol Gillott, a former NYer living on Île Saint-Louis in a 21 meter chambre de bonne. As a Paris blogger, travel writer, watercolorist, and photographer, I share my latest escapades so you can walk around the city vicariously in my shoes. To experience even more of the Parisian life, sign up to receive my beautifully Illustrated monthly letters where I paint the Paris your dreams and mail them to you wherever you are. You can order these letters, along with my art prints, at my Etsy shop.
Popular Posts
in the Paris Metro
My Champagne artwork in the Paris Metro!
in Vogue
Lost in Cheeseland interview
Describe what you love about France in 3 words. Can we make it 5 words? Eyes, ears, nose, tastebuds + brain. Paris stimulates all my senses constantly. I’m inspired all the time – endlessly surprised and amused. New York doesn’t do it for me anymore…
...................
All artwork, writing, photography on Paris Breakfasts is copyright ©2006-2019 by Carol Gillott unless otherwise indicated. Material may not be duplicated, published, or re-written without permission. All rights reserved.
The chess game and polka dot cakes♥
ReplyDeleteNot everyone can get away with wearing the star spangled banner leggings:) She can!
I love leggings..but need a long top on top;)Live in flip flops..not now.. trying to wear in new cowboy boots:)
A very happy Bastille Day to you, dear Carol. I always had a double reason to celebrate the 14th, as it was my late Dad's birthday.
ReplyDeletexo
One can call a little basket for fruit a "punnet." But that's English, yes.
ReplyDeleteJuicy post! Must be rather exciting there on Bastille Day. Hope we see the
first exciting photos of Pluto today, too. What a day!
In the shop they call it a 'panache'...who knows why?
DeletePanaché - a mixture of things (like limonade and biere). That fruit basket is so cute! Love the Dalloyeau window, miam miam.
ReplyDeleteDo try to watch the parade on TV sometime--we did once when it rained, and it was a real education. You learn the most fascinating things about the military's historic and still-pervasive role in French society. The students from the elite schools (like St.-Cyr--the women wear skirts), the elite fire brigades...and the French Foreign Legion, in their long leather aprons, their required beards, and their dramatically slow marching tempo! And if it's raining, you pity the fellows in their heavy wool uniforms with the extra water weight.
Best of all, no jostling to see, no sunburn, no sore legs. Even if you miss a certain esprit de fête.
A la prochaine!
DeleteMust plug in the TV but bet it was in my ipad too...
Thnks for the heads up Chan
I love the view from your window and what a pretty sunny day. How is your swimming since your accident? Has it slowed you down at all, I imagine swimming would be good to strengthen the break, AnyHoo- what I'm trying to express is I hope you are all better and enjoying your swimming again.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for asking!
DeleteI now swim almost everyday and almost for an hour so tout va bien.
I am looking for an MP3 music thing to play in the water.
Oh,Bastille Day... I made a point a few years ago to be in Paris for the wonderful July 14th events,a party with the pompiers,and of course sitting in the Champs de Mars to watch the magnificent fireworks exploding in the background of the Eiffel Tower.Definitely a bucket list moment.
ReplyDeleteThank you Carol
Oh dear I missed that.
DeleteGoing on next year's to-do list Cyndi!
Il fallait le faire ! Vive la France !
ReplyDeleteAmitiés.
Roger
Oh Bastille Day à Paris. Marvellous post, marvellous day. Funny the piscines are open- but they are decked out in red white and blue too. Those berries and berry gateaux look fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI love that opening photo, and then all of the colorful ones that follow! The red, white, and blue tights look good, and the flowing finger-nail polish shots are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the planes created a good roar for your perfectly placed viewing spot!
Wow! What a country! All the pols open on a holiday? Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy the way you find color themes in various places: like the fruit and the pool! View from your window, do you just stop in wonder whenever you pass by it? Did you wear white and blue to go with your red lunnettes?
ReplyDelete