Wordless Wednesday off the tourist track…
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
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PARIS IN PICTURES, MOVEMENTS IN MODERN
Wordless Wednesday…
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
PARIS IN PICTURES, NATURE BEING NURTURED
Wordless Wednesday…
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PARIS IN PICTURES, SCENE ON THE STREET
Wordless Wednesday…
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FRAMING FRANCE; STRASBOURG
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Last weekend, possibly the final weekend of glorious sunshine for another year, we went to Strasbourg, the final birthday celebration, a city that is fully French, was once German for almost 50 years and is now filled with pretzels, flammenkueche, and all around adorability…
And good cocktails! What? I’m Irish!!!
Seriously, I wanted to eat everywhere! And tried!
On your bike! No cars in the city centre after 11am, Joy!!!
This is an actual school, lycée! It must be for wizards!!
Saint Paul’s Reformed Church, one of the many churches along our boat tour
European Parliament 
Flammenkueche, Pizza Alsace style
Petite France area of Strasbourg, Can you imagine this with the Christmas market in full sway!!!!
We had the best sauerkraut with fish here! (Choucroute de la mer). Not from the troff!!!
Shadows within the Museum of Modern Art and below an art installation outside by Brooklyn based artistic collaboration FAILE
A moving Spider at the museum of modern Art, in top hat too!
And a goodbye from the glass modernity of Central Station
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
ESCAPE TO THE SOUTH, FRAMING FRANCE
A weekend in Marseille, Frioul, Cassis and the hills and beaches of Calanque…
Frioul Archipelago
Marseille seen from the Frioul and the island of If, from The Count of Monte Cristo
Vieux Port, Marseille
Calanque
View from the restaurant in Calanque
Calanque de Sugiton
Backstreet of charm in Cassis
Pastis before brunch
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
LA CITE RADIEUSE, LE CORBUSIER, ARCHITECTURE
Unite d’Habitation/La Cite Radieuse by architect Le Corbusier by Marseille (1959-1960)…
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BLACK AND WHITE; SHADES OF PARIS
THE CITY OF LIGHT AND SHADE…
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SUNDAY IN THE SHADE AT SCEAUX, PARIS
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A Sunday escape to the suburbs of Paris and the Parc and Chateau at Sceaux.
The sun was out but the shadows looked better in black and white…
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
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Parc de Sceaux is located just outside Paris, via RER B, and the Petit Chateau, rebuilt in 1850’s (originally constructed in the 15th century and later owned by JB Colbert, minister of the Navy, before it was confiscated during the French Revolution) is now the Musee de l’ille de France.
ESCAPING THE CITY; SEA, SAND AND SUNSETS IN SAINT MALO AND LE MONT SAINT MICHEL, BRETAGNE, FRANCE
Weekend break from the Parisian heat in Bretagne, France…
By the Breakers at Saint Malo
Patterns on la plage (the beach)
Sunset over the former pirate seas of Saint Malo
Big Bear at Le Grand Hotel des Thermes, Saint Malo
The Seagull sweep
Striking a pose
Le Mont Saint Michel
Tide’s out
Sunset beneath Le Mont Saint Michel
Within the Abbey at Le Mont Saint Michel
All photography by Damien B. Donnelly
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