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Post by lagatta on Sept 12, 2019 10:57:16 GMT
Well, no crisps are health food, but those Tyrell's ones are indeed very tasty. And clever packaging.
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Post by bjd on Sept 12, 2019 11:42:42 GMT
I have a photo of two of my grandchildren sitting on a fence in Portobello, Edinburgh munching on Tyrell's chips. The ones I see in the store here have some weird flavours.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 13, 2019 4:33:49 GMT
By the way, I love your dog. Come si chiama? Si chiama (the reflexive doesn't really work here does it? ) Haven.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 13, 2019 4:36:45 GMT
Buttes Chaumont *is* a very nice park, in a real neighborhood, populated with real Parisians.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 19:14:13 GMT
I took the bus to the Buttes Chaumont today. It was sunny and close to warm but also a bit windy, so what I feared turned out to be the case -- the park was closed for security reasons. They didn't use to close the parks because of the weather, but about 10 years ago, maybe 15, a woman was killed in a park in Paris by a falling branch, maybe an entire tree, and that's all it took. So I decided to walk the perimeter anyway. I considered making a new thread called "Buttes Chaumont from the outside" but that seemed a bit futile, so I'll put a few photos here. Normally I would have alighted from the bus at the stop directly in front of the Mairie of the 19th arrondissement but when I saw that the gates were closed, I stayed on for another two stops to go to the top end of the park. i.postimg.cc/T1cyG6s4/P1020325.jpgIt was interesting to see that all of the joggers who run through the park had decided to jog around the park instead. i.postimg.cc/28zbG1bR/P1020327.jpgIt would have been nice to be able to go in. i.postimg.cc/mk4c0Dm9/P1020329.jpgi.postimg.cc/rwHDqghM/P1020330.jpgThere is a huge pétanque area on that side of the park, and it was relatively busy. i.postimg.cc/pLr9N3Js/P1020331.jpgi.postimg.cc/GpsHtYNY/P1020333.jpgThe extremely popular Rosa Bonheur café-restaurant looked quite forlorn just inside the gate. I wonder if they pay the employees anyway. i.postimg.cc/ryGR51pN/P1020332.jpg
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 19:19:16 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 19:24:52 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 19:42:59 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 19:50:22 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 20:11:05 GMT
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Post by mossie on Feb 16, 2020 21:48:23 GMT
You certainly used your telephoto to show us some good views of the park, but I am so glad I didn't come over today. It was always a joy to sit in the park and watch some of the joggers really struggling along.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2020 2:32:30 GMT
Well, Kerouac, you certainly didn't let a little thing like having your plans completely stymied get you down. Really, you made your loss our gain with this wonderful series of photos. It was nice to see the park from all those vantage points and uncluttered by human beans. I just love everything, from the long views to the fresh new flowers
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Post by fumobici on Feb 17, 2020 19:32:17 GMT
I am again reminded of how relatively civilized we are here in the US without perimeter fences topped with spikes and locking gates surrounding our parks like some grim prison yard.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2020 21:11:30 GMT
But Fumobici, it was closed for a good reason, as explained below. I knew a woman who had a big oak branch fall on her as she rode her bike in Audubon Park in New Orleans. She suffered some permanent damage, but the city said it was "an act of god". Buttes Chaumont is huge and full of steep parts -- not easy to ascertain every day if there are branches in danger of falling. the park was closed for security reasons. They didn't use to close the parks because of the weather, but about 10 years ago, maybe 15, a woman was killed in a park in Paris by a falling branch, maybe an entire tree, and that's all it took.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2020 16:36:38 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2020 16:47:50 GMT
Just beautiful. I love all the grasses with their seed heads and the yucca are gorgeous. The penultimate picture of the giant specimen tree is magnificent. This park with all its wild-seeming areas is such a wonderful thing in a huge city.
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Post by mossie on Jul 6, 2020 19:17:47 GMT
My favourite Paris park, and usually very popular with the locals, where are they all?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2020 19:21:55 GMT
Well, it was Monday, so most of them were probably at work. There were still too many joggers on the outer perimeter (in my opinion), since they always make the normal pedestrians feel that they are in the way.
Also, the school year ended on Friday (yes, the French kids actually went back to school, except for the high school and university students), but many families fled the city starting Saturday. Of course "Dad" often stayed behind to continue working. Some day when there is sexual equality, perhaps Dad will be able to take the kids on holiday while Mama stays behind to work.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 7, 2020 11:23:02 GMT
Nostalgic walkabout - thanks Kerouac! I don't know if that tall tree is a Sequoia or not but I am almost certain that the widespread branches in the penultimate photo is a giant and very ancient Cedar of Lebanon. I don't think Napoleon planted this one but he did plant the one in the gardens of St.Gatien in Tours.
In your previous photos you took some very nice ones of the Mairie or Town Hall opposite the bus stop where we bade farewell to Mossie after we had all been for a short stroll n the park. If anyone finds themselves waiting for the bus maybe see if you will be allowed to gain entrance to the Hall of Marriages. In there you can see the painting 'The Civil Wedding' of Mathurin Moreau 1881) by Henri Gervex (1852-1929). In 1878, Monsieur Moreau became mayor of the 19th arrondissement in Paris. It is quite beautiful.
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Post by lugg on Jul 7, 2020 19:20:45 GMT
The photo of the Belvedere is fab. Such a lovely park. That next to last photo of the giant tree is also outstanding - what a gorgeous tree.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2021 13:07:14 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jan 11, 2021 15:24:27 GMT
How I wish I could have joined you, I have said before that I think Buttes Chaumont is the best park in Paris. You are lucky that the bus practically stops outside your door to take you there.
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Post by mossie on Jan 11, 2021 15:36:24 GMT
I meant to add that Napoleon had nothing to do with this park, it was created on the instructions of his nephew Napoleon III in the 1850's.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 2, 2021 6:17:04 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Apr 2, 2021 19:02:29 GMT
Lovely photos of a very sunny Paris. Looks like people are just happy with or without a mask. The couple on the bench seem to be people watching - she with a critical eye...he just amused!
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Post by mossie on Apr 3, 2021 7:16:42 GMT
I forget the details but when the park was set out it contained specimen trees of all sorts and they had name plates. Possibly a rival to Kew, although I have never been there.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2021 8:23:39 GMT
A lot of the older trees still have identification plaques in the Buttes Chaumont.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2022 15:50:18 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2022 15:57:09 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2022 16:06:59 GMT
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