I hope you enjoy a nice mix of interesting doors from Paris. Doors that go nowhere, covered passage doors, old doors, and door knockers. Enjoy.

How cool is this door? It was actually part of a building at once time which has long since been torn down. The French people chose to keep the door. It is just standing there all by itself. I LOVE that.

Surely door knockers can be considered?

Oldest building in Paris.

Covered Passage in Paris
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Fabulous! I love the old ornate door with its modern graffiti! 🙂 AND that doorknocker!
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Thanks! They really spoke to me too!
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I love that door knocker (love the turquoise) but the first door (the featured one) is one of the most curious doors I have seen in a while. The ornate past and history feel of those grand doors – with the graffiti and wear and tear…. oh wow.
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Thanks. It was beautiful and interesting for sure. One where I think the graffiti even ads to it. Thanks for the comment and the follow. You are welcome anytime.
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Yes – I agree the graffiti adds – but still so thought provoking – and glad to catch up with some door posts – I will be back later to peruse some of your past ones – hope u have a good weekend
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Thanks! The doors are so much fun almost anywhere in the world.
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Yes – I agree – and thanks for the reply – have a nice day!
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Hi! Thanks for the pics. I love that there is a bust above each window over the passage way. Ornate!
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Everything is ornate in France!
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Gorgeous collection again this week – I really have to get over there some day. Seems like a total festival of photogenic doors 🙂
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It sure is. There were so many I quit taking photos of them! Thanks Norm!
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A door without any other purpose than being a door; how novel an idea!
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I like your doors. You and I seem to focus on similar things. 😉
(And thank you for warming up my memories of Paris as I get ready to go)
Be good.
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So glad to get you excited about it. I wish I had a good baguette now!
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Hmmm. The perfume of fersh hot bread when one enters a Boulangerie at 4 in the afternoon and they just pulled out the last bake of the day… 😉
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Oh yes!
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Happy Bastille Day!
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Thank you Jenny. I am in shock. This was a massacre. And I am tired of it.
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Me too. I go between anger and sadness and shaking my head. And now three more police officers killed in Baton Rouge. Where is my wine glass?
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With you all the way. 🙂 Not to mention yesterday’s killings in Munich. But I’m flying to PAris tomorrow. (I will watch my back) Have a lovely week-end. Regards to Hubby and Doggie. 😉
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Can’t wait to hear about your trip! Have a lovely time.
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Thank you Jenny. Going well so far. Reconnecting with aold friends… Lots of good food and wine and chat. Went to Beaubourg yesterday. Quite nice. We discovered a permanent collection i’d never seen. I want to programme a trip to giverny… Will let you know… Hug.
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I can’t wait to hear about it if you do
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You will be the first to know. I’ve already completed step one: buying Pariscope, THE guide to entertainment in Paris. Weekly, all movies, theatre, museums, etc. I need to see when it closes. I’d rather not go on week-ends. Then I’m going to London next tuesday… Might have to leave it for the following week. 😉
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No worries. Avoid the crowds of you can for sure. And go early so you can spend the rest of the day in town eating.
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Haha! Can’t spend the whole day eating. The advantage is that I have no schedule, no particular plan. Having several weeks ahead, i can decide where i go the very morning. I have bought Pariscope, the weekly bible of entertqinment to circle the places i want to go. At a leisurely pace.
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Good for you!
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PS. I didn’t hear any particular “California” accent in SF… I thought it was pretty standard.
😉
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You probably heard a lot of “likes” and “whatever’s.”
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Yeah… More likes than whatevers. Do you mean that “Californian” is more about certain vocabulary than “ac-cent”?
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I’ve always thought other parts of the country had accents and we didn’t but that is prob closed minded of me. The northeast, the south, Texas all have different sounds to them. Even Chicago has an accent.
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I think you’re absolutely right. South of the Mason-Dixon “laine”, Naw yowk. Even Chicago. I had a great teacher in behavioural sciences in Grad school from Chicago. And he sounded a bit like Canadians. Which is why I would agree with you: your’s seems to be “middle-of-the-road” accent. American definitely but not “skewed” one way or the other. 🙂
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I love the accents. It’s interesting to me. I always wished I new more about how they became what they became.
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An interesting question. I tend to think that accents originate inside the family and spread… 🙂 (For instance, there are many Southern accents: Geawgia people don’t speak like Alabamer or Texas… 😉
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But then did their accents originate from the settlers who first came over from Europe in that area? Many groups had a tendency to settle with their own people in the various states. French, Irish, Scottish, and so on.
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Good point… People from Quebec hqve retained their original “peasant” acent from the 17th century… Hmmm. But then American Irish don’t really have a n irish accent (“DOblin”) do they?
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Not at all
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Always wondered where the New England accent came from though
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Don’t know. Doesn’t sound like any British accent.
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Doesn’t really sound like anything but neither does the southern accent. My mystery will remain unsolved for another day. Need to ask a linguist some day. I even read a few books on linguistics hoping they would address that and sadly they did not.
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Linguistics? Interesting. I have read a couple too, but you are right, i’ve never read anything about accents. Room for research! 🤓🔨
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Maybe we need to write one!
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A project for the 21st century?
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