Parisian Footsteps

I'm reading a novel set in 1940s Paris at the moment. At the same time I've rediscovered these pictures from last year, when I was working in Paris for 10 days and also carrying out a very important daily pain au chocolat taste test. I recognise some of the bars, streets and hotels from the book - Paris is so beautiful (so intimidating)! I wonder when it will be possible to travel and walk the streets of foreign cities again? Paris is magical in the way it is possible to arrive in the city two hours after leaving London, stepping off the train at the forever busy Gare du Nord.

Enjoying a day off from the grind of a daily commute...

Working from home today and very happily so 

Pebbles

 

Pebbles Turnbull from Elite

Shot by Will Aldersley

Styled by me

Mid-Week

I was early for my mid-week shift at work today, so walked along to the National Gallery to burn time. These were my picks of the flying visit:

 Ulyssess deriding the Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey, Turner, 1829

The Immaculate Conception, Diego Velazquez, 1618-19

Water Lilies, Setting Sun, Claude-Oscar Monet, c.1907

Maybe a slightly random choice of paintings, certainly chronologically, but I enjoyed them nonetheless.

Also of note:

Mini ballet shoes at a Dance shop on Cecil Court

And

Poor George Peabody, sporting a cone hat which he definitely didn't put there himself. (The guy in the yellow jumper was furious).

Dissertation Easter