Looking for tigers 🐅(it’s the year of the tiger) in all the wrong places 😬
I walked up and down rue Saint Honoré and saw quite some chic shop. Bottega Veneta is thinking Green. Aren’t we all dreaming of green…as many East coasters shovel snow ❄️ Bear 🐻 is fine by the way, thank you for asking…just hibernating, as bears tend to do in Winter. Not window browsing. I saw Givenchy for kids, fantasie butterflies and Etro.
But no Chinese dragon 🐉 or banging drums :((
Something was going on, but not the Chinese New Year’s parade. And none of les flics had a clue 🕵️♂️
I did find a charming, well-hidden perfume shop, Rose Desgranges, in a passage at #70. Have you been? They are definitely ready for Valentine’s ❤️ Day 👏👏 The kind gentleman invited me inside. Extract of Vanille from Madagascar.
They’ve been making perfumes since 1962.
Do pay them a visit for a fun look.
Arriving back on rue Royal, Laduree has new Valentine macaron boxes. And I put up another past Valentines❤️ on Etsy. Do take a look. After la poste 📮 today, I’ll try my luck again🤞The real New Year’s dragon 🐉 is performing again at 97, rue Saint-Honoré in the 13th arrondissement (not the 8th where I went yesterday)🙏🤞🤸♂️ Bon Courage as the French say ❤️💋🐅
Your desire to see the Chinese New Year Parade took you on quite a trek!
ReplyDeleteThe windows are marvelous. I especially like the mannequins with the animal heads and the Laudree macron box with a MAP!!!
I sure hope there aren’t any shenanigans going on at #55 like at #10 in London😬
Window shopping is always fun…and you find such unique shops, Carol. Thanks for letting us faire du lèche-vitrine vicariously! ❤️
ReplyDeleteAs I live in the Little Saigon area of CA, I've been listening to firecrackers and something much louder and larger for 4 days now - but never made it over to the parades or lion dances. The windows are always so beautiful and imaginative in France - I love the dressed bears and I'm sure Bear would have gotten a kick out of them, but you can show him the picture,
ReplyDeleteDo you think Ladurée is copying your maps? I think that might be the case.
ReplyDeleteWait, there's a rue St Honoré in the 13th? That would have mislead me too! At least you found some fun places to visit in Macron's neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteKiwi I found nuttin’ I got lost in the 13th and gave up yesterday;((
ReplyDeleteThank you Roseann but others do Paris maps too althoughfeware mad enough to do them every month!! 🤪
Sukicart Bear did like Gucci outfits on those non-hibernating bears 👏👏 Maybe if I had heard firecrackers I would have found the parade🤸♂️
Bonnie I figured no parade but plenty of window gazing alwys to be had on rue St Honoré!
Ga Hahahaha 😊 no parties at #70 that anyone has heard of. No nonsense and no funny papers 👏👏👏
Love your posts and photos!
ReplyDeleteHere in Brazil we have high temperatures at this time of the year - a very hot summer!
Your posts are very refreshing!
Thank you for the beatiful photos and maps.
You have a great sense of adventure and direction..Pas moi ..re the latter.Lost in a phone booth .
ReplyDeleteLove the aquarelle.