A PIG A DAY

 Le Petit Vendôme, the small café/restaurant on 8, Rue des Capucines, has for years been known as making the very best 'jambon-beurre on a baguette' (ham on buttered baguette) sandwiches. And they are good! Lines form in the a. m. and again for lunch. 

CHOCOLATE DECADENCE

 A display of milk and dark chocolate leaves from the well-knowm Parisian Maison du Chocolat near the Bon Marché department store. 

LE FACTEUR ROULIN

 Here a very large mural of van Gogh's Portrait of the Mailman Roulin gazes down on the Rue de Rivoli near the Marais section of Paris, a sight he fore sure never saw in his lifetime. 

POULETS DE BRESSE

 The most famous of France's chickens are the chickens from Bresse. 

SPARKLY

 A change from Perrier. 

COUCHER DU SOLEIL SUR LES TOITS

 Well, you can't keep a good blooger down. Said I wouldn't be posting for a while since I am 'out of town, ' but here I am... in Paris

THEME DAY: SOFT

These traditional Serbian plum dumplings are indeed soft and flavorful. Grandma made them from scratch, but I fell for the frozen ones that need to be boiled for 10 minutes, then covered with bread crumbs browned in butter. Soft and very yum! See other Soft things on THEME DAY.

SIGNS OF FALL

 Visited the market yesterday.... 

MAN WITH A RED BAG

 Taking the bus home. No shots from town; in a lull. But here, through the bus window, is a spot of brightness--the man's red bag.

JUDENLAGER ZEMUN/BELGRADE CONCENTRATION CAMP

 Yesterday a visiting friend and I took a private tour of the nearly forgotten JUDENLAGER ZEMUN, the former 1937 Belgrade Fairgrounds. The name Zemun and not Belgrade appears on its original name  because at that time, the nearby municipality of Zemun  was once part of the Hapsburg Empire and subsequently Croatia, and included Zemun. Over 40,000 persons (Jews, Serbs, Roma) were tortured and executed over the area of these fairgrounds and others were shipped to three other locations within Belgrade alone. Many who were allegedly told they were being transported there died on the way in an especially-designed GAS VAN that sufficated the passengers en route.

We were led around the now museum, located in the above photos, by a young man, a documentarian,  from the Memorial Center.

A most informative but disturbing visit that will haunt me.

DRAMATIC

Sometimes skies just take your breath away. This one just before sunset over New Belgrade did just that.