the patterned walls in our little room















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4th day in paris…
+ coffee on the tiny balcony
+ picnic breakfast in the jardin tino rossi sculpture park on the seine
+ took the metro to the top of paris and walked the canal
+ walked through marches des enfants rouge and wished we were hungry
+ tsumori chisato store!
+ tried l’as du falafel & chez hanna (we liked l’as du falafel slightly better, but LOVED both. i’ve been dreaming about those falafel.)
+ eiffel tower under an umbrella
+ dinner at l’ecailler du bistrot

and our last, half day…

+ pastry picnic breakfast
+ record shopping
+ pierre herme (delicious, but i much preferred laduree!)
+ back to jardin du luxembourg to photograph roses for an upcoming project
+ to the airport

40 thoughts on “

  1. I've been very in to wallpaper lately – thanks for the inspiration

  2. I love your blog so much! I discoved you two days ago in HOW magazine. I have always been interested in art and being creative but I just haven't got around to doing anything. But Reading about you and Lotta Jansdotter among others was inspiring! Just one question. What type of camera are you using? The pictures who have taken are so amazing! 🙂

  3. I am loving your Paris pics.
    I really wanted to go to the Tsumori Chisato boutique- but we ran out of time.

  4. love the photos! i think you use a d60, right? question is, what lens are you using? beautiful pics. 🙂

  5. I too would love to know what camera and lens you use. Your pictures are always so beautiful and perfectly exposed!
    I was also at the Marche des Enfants Rouges on the weekend (I live in Paris), what a queue there was for the moroccan place!

  6. I LOVE that falfel place on rue des Rosiers…never thought to learn the name but I can find it blind folded… it's the pickled cabbage that sets it apart for me 🙂 So fun to see these places through your eyes… 🙂

  7. thanks everyone…
    i use a nikon d40 camera.
    it's great. it makes taking good pictures very easy!

  8. Beautiful photos, as usual.

    In which hotel did you stay in Paris?
    Thank you!

  9. Great photos, I love 'em! And that looks like a beautiful dress (2nd pic)!

  10. LOOOVE all your paris pictures Lena!! 🙂 especially the ones of the interior of Tsumori…so jealous 🙁 -> 🙂

  11. The photos really convey how Paris is beautiful in its particular way, a French way, of course! I'm guessing you're comparing the macarons at Pierre Hermé and Ladurée. Generally, macarons are too sweet for my taste, but the other baked goods (including the more simple, pain au chocolat, croissant, kugelhopf and the cannelé especially) are amazing at Pierre Hermé and, I reckon, far better than at Ladurée. Sadaharu aoki is great too if you (and everyone else) don't already know it.

  12. waw, that wallpaper! which hotel was it? you make us want to go to paris even more!!!

  13. loving all your paris pics, lena! i was just there a few weeks ago myself 🙂

    anne

  14. Lovely pictures! (And yes, Nikon D40 is a great camera, I have one too). The food looks so good..

  15. Thank you for sharing with us! Most of my family is in France and I miss them (and France in general) terribly. Thank you for helping me feel a little less home sick.

    Jess

  16. Your pictures are great and I am enjoying seeing another part of the world through your eyes.

  17. Hello Lena! Paris is on my travel wish list for next Spring! I like the picture of you having coffee on the balcony. The white blouse with the lacey detail looks dreamy!

  18. I'm going to Paris- the Marais- in a couple weeks and need to book a place to stay- do you have any recommendations? I will only be there for 2 nights… thank you!

  19. loving all the paris photos and the "new" look of your blog…looks like fun and yummy-ness!

  20. love the wallpaper! love your fun quik trip photos! I may go in the fall and would love to stay there! mind sharing the name?

  21. Absolutely beautiful, stunning photographs, Lena. Gorgeous. What an amazing eye you have.