A Parisian experience
Discover Paris of the past with ‘The Commons’ on Flickr
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things, Photography
Fifty venerable organisations – libraries, archives, museums – have got together to form ‘the commons‘, an rights-free image bank packed full of interesting stuff.
For example, the photos of Paris are fascinating, with parts of the city that have completely changed…
Paris Exposition: moving sidewalk, Paris, France, 1900. Moving Sidewalk Panorama Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection (S03_06_01_014 image 9893).
Chinese New Year 2012 in Paris
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
Two weeks of festivities starting 14th January, and two big parades on the weekend of 28th/29th January 2012.
Here are all the details on how to celebrate the arrival of the year of the water dragon (which officially starts on 23rd January) with pride!
photo by valentinvdb used under cc licence
The 2012 Paris Carnival – 19th February 2012
Back slightly earlier than last year, this popular street festival and parade intends to bring a bit of warmth into the the Parisian winter!
No fireworks at the Eiffel Tower for New Year’s Eve 2011
The current economic climate means that there will be no fireworks to celebrate the end of the year in Paris. AGAIN! Meanies…
photo by Yle is dreaming used under cc licence
A beautiful day at the Château de Fontainebleau
If you don’t have a car, it’s pretty expensive (although not impossible) to go and see the chateaux of the Loire valley from Paris.
But did you know that not far from our lovely capital there are some magnificent chateaux you can see, less than an hour away on public transport? We went to Gare de Lyon, hopped on a train, and 40 minutes later a different world awaited us…
photos: JasonW
The world’s biggest fashion show,
2nd edition on 15th September 2011
You still have a few days left if you want to sign up for this slightly crazy street fashion-inspired event: last year, 700 people walked down the red carpet!
Paris street looks. Photo by Matthew Kenwrick used under cc licence
2011 European Heritage Days in Paris
17th & 18th September
A Parisian experience, Art and Culture, Our favourite things
Now celebrated in over fifty countries , the Journées du Patrimoine (as we call them here) have a theme each year, and for 2011 it’s The Heritage « Voyage », with – as always – some exceptional places to see for just that weekend…
photo: Wikipedia
A taste of our next newsletter
It’s going to to a couple of weeks more before the next HPRG newsletter is sent out, but can you guess which Parisian place we’ll be showing you this month? Here are two photos to give you a hint…
photo: JasonW
The 14th July 2011 fireworks display in Paris
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
All the info about the 2011 14th July fireworks display by the Eiffel Tower. And did you know there’s even a fireworks exhibition on in Paris at the moment?…
The 2011 Bastille Day parade in the Champs Elysées,
followed by a meet ‘n’ greet with the troops!
All the info about the parade and the following army PR push called Les Franciliens accueillent leurs soldats, (« The people of the Paris area greet their soldiers »), an odd event with male and female soldiers to talk to and military vehicles to fondle (I wouldn’t try the contrary…)
photo by Rafael Garcia-Suarez used under cc licence
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