Daily touch of France - Thursday edition - Jardin du Luxembourg

[GoneOffShore]

Archive shots from our 2012 trip to Paris.

Young, in love, and in Paris.


Jazz au Jardin du Luxembourg - 'I learnt to play the saxophone'.


Attentive listener - Parisian style

[ZZenith]

1. Wow! Paris doesn't change much in the future, does it?

Kidding aside, we spent our last day in Paris at the Jardin du Luxembourg and it is indelibly etched in my memory - felt like imposters and so envious of the way Parisians spend their free time.

Great photos, please keep posting them.

[GoneOffShore]

2. no coffee yet. Fixing now. Thank you.

[ZZenith]

8. I just assumed it was the boxed wine.

[GoneOffShore]

9. Too early for the boxed wine. I'm on CET so I posted at 8A my time.

[GoneOffShore]

3. Glad that you are enjoying the pictures.

I have over 50k files and I'm working through them.

Keeps me out of trouble, mostly.

And DU, along with Instagram gives me a creative outlet.

[lark]

5. Isn't it a fabulous place?

We spent an excellent afternoon there. Was so impressed with how Parisians use this place, 3 people showed up sitting on the benches across from the pond. Each one of them brought something to contribute and there was a large picnic basket with pastries. They ate great looking cheese and wine and had a great time visiting. You don't see this much in America at lunch during the week. People in France know how to live, few cars, good buses and trains, church bells telling the time, people gathering over food and drink, flowers everywhere during the spring/summer.

[ZZenith]

7. Absolutely fabulous -

I arrived slightly indifferent to the place and left as a raging Francophile. As you say, they’ve learned a few things about living life in the intervening centuries that we would do well to emulate. We returned to the U.S. just as Trump was on the verge of seizing power and the contrast in cultures could not have been more severe.

The French people we met were all aghast at the possibility that we’d be stupid enough to elect such a creature and it was so embarrassing to admit that we were capable of such incredible buffoonery.

Alas.

[GoneOffShore]

10. They are still aghast. Though we have our own guy who is trying to out Loser Loser.

[ZZenith]

11. And to their credit he will most likely lose -

N'est-ce pas?

I know there’s a right-wing troglodyte faction over there but they don’t seem to be too popular.

We always seem to have to learn the hard way.

[beveeheart]

4. Thanks for the memories.

July 1976 - spent one week of a 3-week stay in Paris at a very small hotel a couple of blocks from le Jardin. Wonderful place to relax and people watch.

[GoneOffShore]

6. My pleasure.

[GoneOffShore]

12. Also, do come back soon.

[beveeheart]

13. I wish I could, but don't think it will happen now.

I used to teach high school French and have a pretty decent accent. During trips to France with either my students or by myself, I hardly ever got taken for an American. As for grammar and vocabulary now, seems I'm not nearly as fluent as I used to be though I do try to watch TV5 every day, especially for another view of world news.

[GoneOffShore]

14. We went for drinks last night with an American woman and her French guy friend.

We started talking about language and learning French 'grammaire'. His advice? Learn a lot of vocabulary, the present, the futur present, the passe compose and pretty much ignore the other verb tenses, because no one uses them except in literature.

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