2008-05-28 // 15:31:22
sulfiteman
Oh, I thought you knew all of Paris so well, I am surprised! Arriving in the city at G du Nord, I love strolling down Bd Magenta to Republique, then on to the quieter streets of Rue Beranger and Rue de Turenne - and from Rue de Turenne cutting in and out of all the little streets in the Marais like Rue Vielle du Temple, Rue des Francs Bourgeois, Rue Elzevir and Rue de Thorigny and having a cup of tea in my favourite Paris tea house, "Cafe The", which I think is on Rue du Parc Royal (see my picture of it in my Polaroids, picture no 192) - also maybe having fallafel in Rue des Rosiers if it is out of the main holiday season and there are not too many tourists around, or maybe getting a baguette and sitting in Place des Vosges to eat it. Have you seen the fragment of medieval staircase tucked inside the bookshop on the corner of Rue Saint Paul and Rue Neuve St Pierre? Can you guess which city I would rather be in today.....and what I would rather be doing instead of work? (you don't have to answer that last question ha ha!)

2008-05-28 // 10:16:16
emilie79
hahaha, yeah, *not* the kind of place i often go to ;))
actually im not even sure i've ever been to any of the places you mention, but i might go and have a look when i have more time!

2008-05-28 // 09:57:24
emilie79
yeah i know what you mean :)
i really like the Paris blue ones too. But exactly, it's all about seeing different things and falling in love with them just because they are different from what you're used to.
Are there any areas / street names that you like in Paris and that you'd like to see on pola?

^ Anywhere in the Marais - Village St Paul, that sort of area - or further up Rue de Turenne towards the rag trade area - all those menswear shops with the excrutiatingly awful mens "fashions"! I also like the area in between Les Grands Boulevards and Rue la Fayette - very cosmopolitan. And in the 16th - Passy - lots of money there lol!

2008-05-28 // 09:45:24
emilie79
I'm a sucker for English street names on brickwalls. I love the typography and the way they look. So different from the Paris ones. When i lived there i took shots of all the street names that i liked and that were dear to me. OMG, i think i even have a pola of the list i'dmade. Hang on it's here: »link
aaaages ago, just when i came back from london :)
Love that old pottery shop in your shot, also.

^ Thank you so much dear - the strange thing is that I think the London street names are ordinary, but the blue enamel Paris ones are WONDERFUL! Its just what you are used to and what is familiar, isn't it! Hampstead is very photogenic - but parking is difficult and expensive, so I just had 30 mins last Saturday afternoon to rush around with my heavy 600SE and take a couple of shots