Le Lapin Agile
A Country Cottage or a Cabaret?
During a stroll around Montmartre I came across a curious house on the corner of Rue des Saules and Rue St Vincent facing Le Clos de Montmartre Vineyard. » Read more
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Lunch on the Train
Recently I was in London catching up with an an old Australian friend over dinner when I mentioned I would soon be in Paris.
“Oh you must dine at the Le Train Bleu,” he said flicking through his mobile phone to show me images from when he treated his mother to lunch there. » Read more
Revisiting Deauville
Years ago my parents spent a year living in Deauville. At the time I was living in London but visited them regularly. So on a recent trip to Normandy Peter and I decided to spend a few hours in Deauville. » Read more
Moulins de Montmartre
When we’re in Paris we often stay in an apartment in Rue Lepic in Montmartre. Just across the road is a windmill called Moulin de la Galette.
It turned out this was quite an historic and well known windmill (maybe not quite as well known as the one at the foot of the hill…Le Moulin Rouge) and had been the inspiration for paintings by such artists as Van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Le Moulin de la Galette by Vincent Van Gogh courtesy Wikiart
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Dance at the Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir courtesy of WikiArt
Now it’s restaurant but I can’t say what it’s like as we didn’t dine there… maybe on our next visit to Paris… but back to history. I couldn’t find out much about the windmill over the internet but I learnt that originally there were 14 mills which made up “Les Moulins de la Galette” and now there are just two. This one was built in 1622 as a wheat mill. In 1924 it was moved from its original site a bit further up the hill to its current situation at the corner of Girardon and Lepic Streets.. It made a picturesque outlook from my apartment window.
Walking Through Walls.
Montmartre has to be one of my favourite places in Paris. On a recent trip I had an afternoon on my own as Peter, my partner, had to work, so I went for a wander around Montmartre. » Read more