If you’re in Paris between December 15th and February 9th, you’ll be able to go ice skating at a 200 square meter rink to be installed on the first level of the Eiffel Tower, 57 meters above Paris. Details: La patinoire de la Tour Eiffel.
HT @Myriam
Blues and Rockabilly in France
In case you’re feeling homesick, there are two summer blues festivals coming up in France! (OK, there’s also rockabilly and country and more…).
- The Festival de Craponne sur Arzon (July 26-28) in southeastern France
- The Nuits du Blues (August 23-25) in Béthune in northern France. Excellent poster above. Featuring a real live Stray Cat!
If you decide to go, let me know. These are definitely road trip material!
Be cool Babar.
Mike Rosenthal (@vectorbelly) has created Twitter: The Comic, a Tumblr blog of comics made from tweets, some his own, some by others.
There’s some random, twisted stuff on Twitter, as you may have noticed. But it makes for some interesting art.
This one, of course, is our favorite.
Based on this tweet by @DankHerbMullet.
Heroic fantasy vacation in Belgium
If you’d like to sleep inside a fairy tale, you might want to pay a visit to La Balade des Gnômes, a quiet bed and breakfast where you can live out your fairy tale dreams, including one inside the belly of a wooden bull.
Details and pictures of interiors at io9.
Interactive French geography games
Some entertaining interactive games on this site. We failed miserably at the cheese game, (shot above), but had fun nonetheless!
Build your own Paris
We just love the look of Paper City Paris! | Made by Joel. Cut out the Eiffel Tower and more, in addition to these little people and the classic car. Rainy-day fun for your little francophile? We’re sure you can think of many more uses for these adorable–and free–paper cutouts!
French chocolate coffee table
We just loved this crafter’s French chocolate coffee table! See how she did it at Red Hen Home.
Quiz: Are You a Francophile?
Take this quiz to discover just how deeply you love the country and its people.
You wear:
a. an “I love Paris” T-shirt
b. a sweater tied around your neck
c. a permanent scowl
Take the quiz at The Paris Blog. Image via Polyvore. Check out the rest of her funky fashion combos!
Où est Charlie ?
Photographer couple Max & Charlotte have created a series of Where’s Waldo-inspired photos at iconic locations all over Paris. We’re not sure there actually is a Charlie to find in these photos, but it’s tons of fun to study the details.
Seen @pollyvous
Paris métro in anagrams
The French love to play with language, so it’s no surprise somebody decided to change all the names of Paris métro stops into wacky anagrams. We like Clefs au vieillard for Filles du Calvaire on line 8 (lavender). Lots more to discover on the complete map at Anagrammes de Métro!
Paris meetup celebrating Gallia beer !
Hosted by Francophilia and 52martinis. Details and RSVP here!
Sarko willing to sell France’s soul to highest bidding hotel chain
Designed by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel, it is one of the best examples of 18th-century royal architecture and its intact collection of furniture and decor is unrivalled, even by the palace of Versailles. But the state-owned building could be transformed into luxury boutiques, plush suites for billionaires or a hotel with swimming pool.
via The Guardian
Just thought you might want to know that someone stole your photo and claimed ownership she they could sell it. If you gave them permission, please ignore this:)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/66251538/paris-valentine-premade-etsy-banner-and
Thanks Steven. We used the pic from the original article (which we link to). I told them and they said they had got it from Fotolia. Ill try to track down the owner.
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