As many times as I have been to Paris there are still many, many places within the city that I have yet to visit. Whenever I visit I try to balance a mixture of old favorites and new sites or experiences.
I just returned from an extended weekend in Paris (arrived Thursday, left Monday) in which I dined with girlfriends, took two food tours and visited a studio for food classes; went to a museum, a food exposition and ate and walked up a storm, all to be detailed in upcoming posts.
In addition I toured the Opera in Paris, something I have always wanted to do. It is gorgeous from the outside, and as you can see from the photo above, the inside as well. Although this was my first visit, but it won’t be my last because I still want to do the tour that includes the rooftop area where they produce some of the best honey in France!
When I arrived home on Monday evening I picked up takeout food which actually gave me food poisoning, so I am a little slow on the uptake, but will be back to regular blogging soon!
I have just recently become totally enamored with opera. What great fun, Andi, exxcept the food poisoning part. Yucko. Hope you’re on the upswing soon!!
@Jen, I am not sure about the music, I have never been to a show (and really need to try it out one day) but the opera houses in many countries are just spectacular. The Paris one is just gorgeous from the outside, especially at night, and it is amazing on the inside as well!
Congratulations on your trip to Paris, it must have been delightful. Going to Europe is on my list of things to do.
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Have a wonderful afternoon!
It’s one of my favourite places in Paris. I’ve been twice – but have yet to see a performance there. Last time I stood on my tippy toes and strained my neck to peek through the holes in the doors to watch the performers rehearse. On my next trip I’m going to make the effort to see something. Living in Australia we don’t have beautiful historic buildings like that – we’re too young.
@Meaghan, it is beautiful isn’t it. There was no performance practice going , but there was a small group of dancers practicing in the hallway which I photographed, I definitely want to see something there now. You can say the same thing about America being young too, we don’t have anything close to what they have in Asia or Europe!
@Karen, thanks, it is always good to have a travel bucket list!
So gorgeous!
Thanks for linking up last week!
I just pinned this on Pinterest, not even realizing I was *not* already following you!! I have rectified that.
I have had so much fun being here today, reading a little of this and a little of that. I like blog reading in this way, especially with your posting daily (or nearly so!). I have fun looking through the blog just like I might a magazine. It’s a fun way to read.
I also wanted to comment (because one can’t comment on an entire collection on Pinterest) that I love your Haircuts board.
I need to go in for a trim and have to decide whether to keep bangs or grow them out (grrrrr — hate that decision), but there was the cutest one with Katie Holmes with bangs. I might just have to cut bangs again, lol.
Thanks, Andi, for posting such diverse and wonderful information.
xx
Karin
@Karin, don’t you love Pinterest? It is the best way to collect things such as those haircut photos! I really hate all the companies suddenly jumping on the Pinterest bandwagon when their presence makes absolutely NO sense, sigh….I do that “magazine style” reading on blogs often. I might do it more if I read less blogs, but sometimes it is fun to do deep dives because there are likely great posts I missed while traveling or sick and it is great to go back and discover them!