No stress café
  • 29
  • Sep
  • 2009

In Paris the big thing is massage or relaxation at the brasserie or café.

Not for the shy, the massage chair at the No Stress Cafe is in the middle of the room. Available from 9 to 11:30 p.m., it costs just €10 for 15 minutes of shiatsu. Come for Sunday brunch and get your cards read by a fortune teller.

The café has a charming atmosphere and the brunch is fine. When in summer or on sunny days it’s best to make a reservation because they have a nice terrace just on a real parisian square. What else could you wish more …

No Stress Café , 2, Place Gustave Toudouze, 75009 Paris, you can easily walk from the Montmartre Studio-Loft

 

Literary Paris
  • 25
  • Sep
  • 2009

While browsing on the net, I found a book that might be interesting for people who like literature and Paris and who want to visit places out of the touristic feeling.

Literaly Paris is written by Jessica Powell and gives places to make a literary pilgrimage through Paris by following in the footsteps of thirty writers who made the city their home.

Starting with Moliere in the seventeenth century and ending with James Baldwin in the twentieth. It profiles thirty writers and describes more than one hundred sites associated with them—from cafes, salons, homes, and haunts, to locations in the city they so beautifully described in their writing.

 

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Art of David Lynch at Galeries Lafayette
  • 20
  • Sep
  • 2009

Until 3 October the windows of Galeries Lafayette are designed by David Lynch and they are a real succes. The general thema ” Machines, Abstraction and Woman” attractsand intrigues almost every passerby.

Lynch thinks the windows are as little jewelry boxes presenting different scenes. With sound, moving figures and light he evokes a world of magic and fairy-tale which he wishes to make place for “rêverie”.

He also exposes his own lithos ” I see myself”.

Galeries Lafayette, 40, Bd Hausmann, 75009 Paris, M° Lafayette

Mouche – a Boating Man’s Reminiscence
  • 20
  • Sep
  • 2009

This summer I was reading Great Love stories from Chekhov to Munro , My mistress’s sparrow is dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides in which one of the stories is of Guy de Maupassant : Mouche – a boating man’s reminiscence.

In this scene the Seine is described as I’v never read it before , listen to this :

“… I cherish memories of sunrises on misty mornings, with floating, drifting vapours, white as ghosts before the dawn, and then, as the first ray of sunshine touched the meadows, lit with a lovely rosy glow; and I cherish memories too of the moon silvering, the rippling surface of the water with a radiance which brought all my dreams to life……”

So why not have a stroll along the Seine by sunset or dawn while staying in the Montmartre studio-loft ?