Paris Calling

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Did you know that if you hop on the TGV (bullet train) in Marseille, three hours later you are in the heart of Paris. Three hours! Why don't I just hop the TGV more often just for a day trip? Why don't I say, "French Husband, honey-darling, (actually I call him Cheri FM, it is a radio channel's name here in Provence, and I like how they sing it, "CH-errrrrrrrri FM.") ….let's do lunch in Paris?" I gotta start using that line of thought more often. 

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                       But until I sing Cheri FM to French Husband, I will hop the train with my cousins Judy and Chris. It is their first time to Paris………… Oh la la, what fun we will have. I must find an Orange Beret then convince Chris to wear it for a photo.  Maybe have him wear it at the Place de la Concord. 

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                          Or dance around the streetlights in Paris with one?

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                    or maybe I can randomly mark a spot on the metro station map: let's say the Eiffel Tower and beg him to do me a favor and pose with an orange beret on his head.

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I'll have to beg him over coffee at an outdoor cafe…. he is a not easily agreeing like I thought he would be!

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Better yet if he doesn't wear it for a photo, I'll threaten not to translate the menus on black chalk board causing him to eat escargots and burger de cheval.

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                               Or maybe I can tempt him to wear the beret if I promise to find a classic romantic spot along the river Seine, or at a park to sit and cozy up to Judy?

  
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                         You know I bet I could ask a French waiter with a black vest and white apron to wear an orange beret and he would… Does it matter if it is Chris or not?

                               

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Well if he won't wear the beret I am going to take a photo of the two of them kissing under this symbol of romance. Did I hear you say "French Kiss?" Oh mon Dieu!



Comments

37 responses to “Paris Calling”

  1. I think an orange beret is a powerful enough visual statement of the ultimate freedom of expression and coolness that you could prop it on a bush, a lonely looking cafe table or on a sidewalk for it’s photo shoot and that would be just fine.
    🙂

  2. Have fun with the orange beret – I can see it flying like a flag from the top of the Eiffel Tower!
    Last night I dreamt I was in Arles near the cathedral and heard of an antique market – was just rushing off to meet you when I woke up… all your gorgeous photos are providing a backdrop for me to go travelling while I’m sleeping!

  3. tell him to wear the beret for at least one shot
    when he gets home he will regret he didnt go for it!!!
    xo

  4. Ohhhhhhhhh! I guess I recognise the restaurant! one of my favorites to have lunch!

  5. 🙂
    i love berets
    but seem to lose them as soon as i buy one!
    orange beret? wow! but i won’t be able to carry it. i’ll prefer a grey-black or muted navy one. anyways, m sure it would look gud even on its own.
    and why wait for somebody else to wear it!
    why don’t u click a self-portrait and make the beret proud 🙂

  6. I wisch you much fun on your trip! We have been at Paris in early spring, and it was o so cold, but we spend a wonderful time there. We were so sorry that we were there by train, so we could not by this pretty little round table on the flea market…

  7. Life is short make FUN of it and that you always do.
    I love you
    Jeanne
    X0X0

  8. Have a fabulous trip….there is no place like Paris. Can’t wait to see your cousin in the orange beret!!! Enjoy your family!!!

  9. Corey- I would be in Paris at least once a week!! I hope that your cousin chooses to wear that orange beret. The escargot would be ok, but horse burgers? Not so much.
    Thanks for allowing me to see France through your lens. One day, one day.

  10. What a lovely post and equally lovely pictures. 3 hour train ride to Marseille? Hmmmmmmmm

  11. oh, Corey…..you do brighten my day!

  12. Paris! Have a brilliant and light-filled time… g xo

  13. What fun! I’ll be watching for an orange beret photo!

  14. Sounds like such fun, Corey. I saw the other day that there is an escargot caviar farm–will that be on your adventurous menu while in Paris? 😉

  15. Ah, Paris..I miss it! I am going to look through my photo book from when I was there. Your pictures were wonderful…I will come back and hopefully see that orange beret. Susan

  16. Ah…Paris…I loved Paris! Will you see the Musée d’Orsay…the Musée du Louvre…the Eiffel Tower? Can’t wait to see the pictures!…can’t wait to see the orange beret!

  17. I could be jealous, but I’m practicing “sympathetic joy” on your behalf right now. Breathing in joy, releasing covetous thoughts right now.
    😉 hope you have a fantastic time!
    Susan

  18. Crossing my fingers that you find that orange beret ’cause I’m looking forward to that pop of color.
    Pretty please, Chris?

  19. Lovely shot of the Eiffel Tower.

  20. Corey,
    Your zest for life gives off sparks that fly across the ocean and land right in my lap! I am not in Paris, I have no wonderful cafe or river to sit beside at the moment. I won’t be kissing my husband under the tower anytime soon, although we could go up on the hill under the old water tower, anyway, I live in the woods and there are no street lamps to dance around and the only translation going on around here is that of the language of the leaves as they change from green to red, yellow, brown, and ORANGE! Perhaps I will be the one to wear the orange beret today. I will make one from leaves, it will be all the fashion here in my woods. Birds will twitter as I walk by and clouds will wink from the vast blue sky and I will think of Paris and sigh!

  21. Ahhhh what fun and excitement await! My brother and his little family are in Paris right now, and he sent my mom a photo from his phone of my 11-month old nephew wearing a beret in Paris! =) Incidentally, baby LOVES the French bread and pistachio ice cream he’s been eating in Paris (am I missing something here… do Parisians like pistachio ice cream)?! lol

  22. Ooh La La,
    Wish I were there!!!
    How romantic, and beautiful.
    Rosemary

  23. Cory,
    Your day trip sounds divine!! The train, the museums, the caffe’s, the atmosphere, sigh. How I wish I could be there!!
    Kris
    I will be wondering where you will find the “orange beret” and better yet who will be wearing it????

  24. Great images!
    I am celebrating my 100th post. Please stop by and enter my giveaway.
    Laura

  25. Corey, more, more, MORE! and oh, I’ll wear the orange beret!!! 🙂

  26. Thank you for transporting me back to Paris and around Provence! Your photos are fabulous!

  27. Hee….you make me giggle, Corey! I wouldn’t mind the orange beret on a waiter, but maybe you can stalk Chris til he naps and….well…what he doesn’t know…

  28. Perhaps you and Judy could wear one also and peer pressure him into it. Or convince him that in a large city like Paris it is a good idea to wear a brightly colored beret as it will make him more easily spotted should you be separated. Besides, a splash of color can be chic when worn with confidence.When all else fails, how do you feel about photoshop? I guess that would be cheating:)

  29. Their first time in Paris. How special. I was there for the first time just about a year ago. How I want to go back.
    Love your blog – it’s the next best thing!

  30. What a lovely and romantic dream. I want to take the bullet train to Paris too. Tell us, for sure, if dreams come true.

  31. It sounds like you are having a wonderful time! Wish I could be there!
    Lorene

  32. You’re killin’ me here. So lovely.

  33. Your photographs are so uniquely French, yet uniquely you. I love my sojourns over here. I’ve been remiss lately.

  34. I LOVE that last photo of the Tour Eiffel!!!

  35. Oh, how I miss Paris!

  36. Three hours from Paris? Oh, how I wish…
    Then again, I’m three hours from D.C., a city I love, and I so rarely go there…

  37. Dear Corey,
    Tucked in a corner of the Marche aux Puces (Clignancourt) there is a restaurant called Chez Louisettte.
    It’s like stepping back into 1930’s Paris. During lunch they have a series of torch singers; one sounds just like Piaf. The place is packed, the food hearty, and the crowd boistrous. Perhaps your cousin would like it. I found a video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26tarotir4&feature=related

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