canal st martin. love it.

…on rue de l’hotel de ville. i love this intersection, no matter what time of year or weather, it is the best place for people watching. and in this case, car spotting.

it’s a hat. and i spotted it in the window of paris’ very first tibetan store which opened over 32 years ago. there are tibetan boutiques and restaurants all over paris, not to mention a fabulous collection of tibetan flags flying from haussman apartment windows all over town. i have had my camera handy and have been snapping shots of the flags at every opportunity. right now my friend tenpa is finishing a three day protest walk sans food, along with some of his fellow tibetans in australia. here is a little interview he did before the walk. i hope he is doing okay right now. meanwhile i am in paris eating my heart out. the world is a funny (not funny ha ha) place.

the panoramic bar at the concorde lafayette hotel. and i adore the interior of this bar, and the service is friendly and inviting (a real bonus in these here parts!) can you see the sparkling eiffel tower on the left?

enjoy, i hope you like. you may need your magnifying glasses to read all the text! or better still get your hands on the printed version. i will write more about it as soon as i am back in amsterdam. Many thanks to Home Beautiful’s Features Editor Rosanne Peach for sending me these pages to share with you…

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