It’s All Maya!

Mom and I having breakfast at Barnes & Noble. Green tea and cinnamon scones.
It was difficult saying goodbye to my mom after spending a month and a half with her.  Call me lucky because that truly is what I am to have spent that time with her!  Each morning I would wake up and […]

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Maya Muses:  I know it’s a day late to be wishing everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day, but I wanted to share Louise’s interpretation (from the Voice) of La Vie en Rose.  I posted this video on Patrick’s Facebook page yesterday and shared it with friends on FB, but I also wanted to share it with […]

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Patrick and I were heading home on the bus the other evening during rush hour and as everyone knows, during rush hour you get nowhere fast!  Cars were bumper to bumper,  a chorus of horns were honking just for the sake of making noise, but surprisingly our bus was not that crowded.

As we inched our […]

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2012 went out beautifully and 2013 came in just as lovely. Patrick and I declined invitations to ring in the new year among friends. Instead we opted to stay home and have a quiet dinner just the two of us.

To work up an appetite, we walked around le Bon Marché and admired the windows […]

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I’ve written about this before and I’ve left comments on other peoples’ blogs who write about how romantic it is to put a lock on the Pont des Arts and to be sure to do the same when you come to Paris, blah, blah, blah!!!

Yesterday, after Patrick’s business lunch, I met him so we could […]

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Not everyone can afford to ride the Orient Express, but just about anyone can hop on the local commuter train that quickly transports you to another time and place.

This “Château de Versailles” train is on line C of the RER and replicates 7 rooms of the famous palace including the illustrious Hall of Mirrors.  Of […]

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Looking at the Seine on the Pont Alexandre III.
There are times when even after 40 years of living in Paris off and on (mostly on) I still love the beauty of Paris and what it has to offer as though I were seeing the city for the very first time.  Last night was one of […]

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We’ve all had days when we’ve said that it was probably better if we had just stayed in bed.  This was definitely one of those days for this Parisian guy who may have gotten tired of all the traffic jams in Paris and decided to finish his commute by taking his car down to the […]

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On our way to the Musée du quai Branly, not a cloud in the sky!
I know!  The lyrics aren’t exactly the way Cole Porter wrote them, but back in March when I first  started this post it was sizzling here in Paris.  The weather went from cold in February to hot in March and it […]

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Patrick and I went for a walk today, the sun was shining and not a cloud in the sky!  Beautiful!  We walked a nice little 5.5 miles (almost 9 km) and then sat at a sidewalk café and just enjoyed the late afternoon sunshine with a glass of wine.  What I love about Paris is […]

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