Favourite Paris photos - 25

Things you might see in a shop

Okay, I'm not really sure what they actually sell in this shop because it's always closed, but I wouldn't go in there anyway -   these hands in the window are just creeeeeepy... 

Favourite Paris photos - 24

Things you might see at the Louvre

Well, if you are at the little park between the Louvre and the Tuileries on a warm day, you might see this gentleman taking his parrots out for a walk and some time in the sunshine - I saw him there last summer and again this year, so it must be a fairly regular thing.  Taking your parrots for a walk seems as though it might be slightly odd behaviour, but I am becoming so blasé and Parisian that I can't really tell anymore...

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2011

Chic chiens?

I think there is a doggie fashion show taking place around the corner from my apartment right now.  And the reason why I think this is because when I was walking home this afternoon, that street was closed off (with security guards in attendance, no less) and there was a big catwalk (or should it be dogwalk?) laid out in front of the very large pet store there.  And now, a couple of hours later, techno-ish music suitable for a fashion show is pumping out, I can hear an announcer yapping  away (although it's too far away for me to actually make out the words) and I can also hear an awful lot of dogs barking.  Gentle readers, I could go investigate this for you, but that would involve traipsing down my five long flights of stairs and then dragging myself back up them again afterward.  And what if I'm wrong?  A doggie fashion show in Paris would be just weird enough to be kinda awesome, but I'm not about to take the chance.   Besides, and more importantly, Furry Man-Whore is completely flaked out on my lap and if I disturbed him to go and check out a bunch of dogs, he would take his little kittycat revenge out on me somehow - it's just not worth the risk that he might vomit in my hair when I'm sleeping.  Not that he's ever done such a thing, but that's why I try not to make him mad at me...

 

Crab bread

Everyone knows that the French make the best bread in the world - baguette, batard, brioche (to name just a few) - ooooh la la!  But perhaps the bakers here are getting a little bored and need to amuse themselves?    I passed a local boulangerie the other day, and couldn't quite believe the awesomeness of these loaves (please forgive the poor quality of the photos, I was in a hurry and was shooting through the window glass):

Turtle bread

Gator bread

My personal favourite - crab bread!!!

Sea creatures at the bakery

Totally amazing, and although you can't tell from the photos, they're really big as well, a good couple of feet long (or wide, as in the case of Monsieur Crab).  I was very impressed with these, although not quite as impressed as I was with the local boulangerie which makes bread shaped like...erm...how to say this delicately?...well, it's shaped like male genitalia.  That's right, it's penis bread.  (Which is yet another sentence I never thought I'd say.)  Well, that's a photo for another day, gentle readers...

Things you might see by the canal

I was out for a stroll beside the canal the other night, and I happened upon this sign.  You might be wondering what it means, and you are not the only ones.    I can't even begin to guess.  Watch out for chickens walking on top of hotdogs?  Seriously, I do not have a clue.  Paris is a mysterious place sometimes...