Premium Voyageur

Last morning in Paris.Bear happens to be traveling Air France Premium Voyageur. He knows as deluxe as Premium V. is, the food is economy, so Bear will grab a few petit sandwiches for the trip. Bien sur, Bear would really love to stay behind and forgetabout NYC.C'est la vie. Bear goes one last time to Fauchon to say his goodbyes to Fauchon Bear.
Au revoir a bientot! A last stop at Printemps just to check. We've discovered there's a new promotion every 2 weeks on the ground floor. Remember the Mad Hatter's Tea Party a week ago? This week it's the new Miss Dior Cherie promotion and we get a scented pink ribbon souvenir. miamAt CDG duty-free there's a beauty shop.
Bear, traveling Premium Voyageur sailed through check-in as a V.I.P. passenger, so he walzes in, tests a few French purfs before boarding. Bear is very busy testing every $$$ purf in sight -
all for parfum researche bien sur.Bear is a tad dyslexic and reads this sign as EXCLUSIVE TRAVELLER. He's feeling his oats definitivement!
BEAR boards via the special VIP entrance and drools over the waiting bottles of water. These bottles are so worth the extra $$$ Bear paid for PV seats without a doubt. The giant movie screen is nothing to sniff at. Plus no one's head can flop back into your lap - the seats are stationary. WOWZA! Fancy headphones, extra nice pillows and thick blanket, special reading light... Bear is one happy clam, ready to knuckle down and do a little inflight sketching. Little does Bear know that his seating companion, mysterious Monsieur Up-In-The-Air will distract him from getting a lick of work done. The AirFrance head burser knows frequent-flyer, M.Up-In-the-Air and offers us 1st class wine in real glasses, Grand Cru Bordeaux Chateau Pichon-Langville
Bear can't help notice the bracelet of big BLACK PEARLS(!) Monsieur is wearing. What?
Monsieur brings out his i-Phone (Bear instantly covets) and shows off his collection of hand-made black pearl jewelry he sells. Bear is confused. Which does he covet more:
The i-Phone or the stunning black pearl jewelry?
The jewelry is available at Urban Zen, New York, Donna Karan's consept store.
 Also in M.'s shop in Saint Tropez and at exclusive St. Barts. He gets the pearls from Tahiti.
No wonder he has all this extra milage.
Bear is drooling like crazy. Monsieur's shed in St. Trop.
Rusty the dog, on Monsieur's boat in St. Barts.
Instantly love.
Hence forth, Bear will never travel anything but AirFrance Premium Voyageur. This has been one big Premium adventure!
BONJOUR AirFrance Premium Voyageur!
Hello New York
PS
Bear wishes to disclose that he didn't receive a free trip from AirFrance nor any black pearls from anyone. Bear's email is on the right just in case.

Boston French Cultural Center Exhibit

Thank you for your kind wishes! Yesterday I painted for on the bus

Naturally first thing I delivered the (140) macarons to the French Cultural Center. And look what an elegant space it is.

Then I strolled out in the Boston Public Gardens... The Fall colors are extraordinary!
Boston is spacious and serene.
The streets are wide.
cars do not deliberately try to hit you When crossing the street. There are many well-behaved squirrels.

Quite a few showed up at the FAB opening.
Back at the show, the Franck Deville macarons await the guests... I think they lasted all of 10 minutes!
Violette, fraise, chocolat and chocolat foie gras. Toute a suite fini. The champagne was flowing...And guests were whooping it up! I whooped it up too - 19 24 33 paintings sold!!! Did I mention that I had 3 cups of New England Clam Chowder at lunch, dinner and breakfast this morning.Now I'm back in New York where several cars tried to hit me. c'est la vie
BON WEEK-END et MERCI ENCORE!

Happy as a Clam

BONJOUR PB readers!

Day #3 in Paris. Still beautiful! And still happy as a clam :) Some men follow beautiful women in the street.

I follow Parisien doggies... Sometimes, I take a picture and have no idea what is going on in front of the camera at that particular moment until I look at it later.This is one of those. Morning at Cafe de La Mairie on Place St. Sulpice in the 6th eme... By chance I passed this facade...
Where is the dog?No dog - I made it up :) I stopped in at Passage Jouffroy to look at the toy facades in the window of Pain d'Epices... I had planned to go to Vienna this trip to visit Mozart and Merisi.
Then I got obsessed with Parisien facades.
This is the closest I'm getting to Vienna... I ate a not very Viennese lunch here.
But fresh & healthy.

One must always have balance when traveling.

Too much healthiness is not a good thing...Yum

Someone else's nature morte.

I shoulda bought one of these on rue de Cherche-Midi...

I always flip for fallen rose petals at La Nom du la Rose

(on rue Tournon 6th eme)

Another irresistable French doggie from I don't know where.
What is the compulsion to take photos of all images of the Eiffel Tower?
Do you have it too?

Especially when you have the Eiffle Tower right outside your window!?

BONJOUR MERCREDI!