We found ourselves grounded this weekend due to illness on my part (I maintain that the Purrito passed it to me; she maintains otherwise), so here’s an opportunity to post the pictures from last Saturday’s jaunt to the recently-reopened (uh, April) roof of the grande arche. There are also pictures of the district in general, …
The past week has been far, far too warm (and hey, the news officially declared a canicule so we have that going for us), so we slunk off to La défense this weekend; tourism is down so far this year that even the nicer hotels (like, for example, the Hilton in CNIT) are cheap at …
I should know by now that when I am trying to travel somewhere faster (for purposes of this example, let’s say work) due to some mitigating circumstance (because it’s pouring), I should just stick with the original plan. Normally, one would think that taking a taxi from l’hopital americain would be painless; it’s all of …
The Purrito joined me for lunch in La Défense yesterday, and we were (quite unsurprisingly) distracted by the animals that were present as part of the marché de nöel. Aside to the market overseers: you may want to have a native or at least advanced Anglophone take a look through your music playlist; this sounds …
Earlier this week, the Purrito came up to La Défense to eat lunch with me (and go to Auchan and Cultura and…). We ended up sharing some of her bread with the local pigeons… …and watching as they all exited stage right after a juvenile hawk perched on the ledge of a nearby roof.
From last week’s small protest in La Défense. It’s a bit weird to have to snake through protestors, gendarmes in full riot kit, and then mall security when all I’m interested in is acquiring a sandwich.
Last week marked the first time since October that it was warm enough to eat on the steps of the grande arche. As indicated in the photos, spring is the flame and the denizens of the district are most certainly moths.
It was one year ago today that I groggily disembarked from a plane, hopped in a taxi that, in retrospect, overcharged me, and found myself in an aparthotel at the back end of La Défense. As the Purrito will rightly state, our official expatriation anniversary is not until June, but it was at this time …
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