I was very lucky while in Paris to meet up with
Kwarkito - his blog is my favourite, with very insightful and poetic posts on a range of topics. Often very beautifully sad on memory and life, often with gorgeous photography. It was lovely to put a person to the words, and we had much to discuss (fortunately we did not need to rely on my terrible, long forgotten French.).
He kindly took me on a little tour of the 5th, and I'm sure I drove him crazy with my endless snapping! But there was so much wonderful art.
It is always lovely to flesh out the blogger we know so well through their words with an actual person. Especially as all the bloggers I knew through the blogger brunches or the travel bloggers meet ups have gone. Funnily in recent years I have met more bloggers from Europe than I have from Australia! (Though my readership is more overseas these days so maybe that makes sense?)
As I mentioned in
this post, history is everywhere in Paris - you just need to look. This little restaurant was the home of Hemingway's studio which they proudly show with a small picture in the window. It was also where the poet Paul Verlaine died in 1896, thus the name.
This is just the start of our walk, there is so much more to come.
It is always lovely to flesh out the blogger we know so well through their words with an actual person. Especially as all the bloggers I knew through the blogger brunches or the travel bloggers meet ups have gone. Funnily in recent years I have met more bloggers from Europe than I have from Australia! (Though my readership is more overseas these days so maybe that makes sense?)
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Sounds like you had a great time. I've only met one blogger that was Gwyneth Rixon over at Oook.
ReplyDelete...Lydia, you have a fabulous collection this week, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful that you met up with Kwarkito in Paris. You certainly found a great variety of murals. I love Seth Globetrotter murals and the Penguin is sweet too. Thanks for participating in Monday Murals Lydia.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to meet him. We are so familliar with some bloggers cos we read them each week but really they're like a ghost that needs to be fleshed out...ha! It's nice when you get to do that!
DeleteFunny, yesterday I saw something that made me want to go back to Paris and now you posted this!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a sign! Go!
DeleteThat is so fun to have gotten to meet up with a fellow blogger and see all this neat street art.
ReplyDeleteThere are some absolute gems there!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to meet a felllow blogger, particularly one with similar interests. Hopefully, one day it'll happen.
Should I make it back to England I will seek you out! :)
DeleteFabulous 🤩
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