{"id":10489,"date":"2010-08-10T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T21:15:02","slug":"joyce-in-paris-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"joyce in paris: part one…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, what a fabulous time we’ve had. I can’t thank you enough for all your amazing comments on my last post<\/a>, I told Joyce all about you and how much you are all thinking of her, she was moved to tears. It has been an amazing experience to be in Paris with her – I feel very lucky to have been able to be there, showing her the sights that she has longed to see for so many decades. It has brought up many beautiful memories for her – listening to Edith Piaf records, learning old French war songs from her father, and remembering a special voice message left on her answering machine by her boy Chris when he visited Paris some years ago – he called her from one of the bridges one night and described in detail everything he could see and hear, including the boats passing underneath, and the twinkling stars above. She couldn’t quite believe she was standing within the exact same scene he had described, she was awestruck by the beauty all around, and amazed that it was really happening – she was really in Paris. It took a couple of days for the reality of the dream to sink in, and it wasn’t really until the third night that she was quite sure she was in Paris\u00c2\u00a0 – I’ll describe that night in further detail in another post…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, I thought I’d share some of the things we got up to in a series of posts this week. And then after that I’ll show + tell some new places Romain and I explored, and new restaurants added to our favourites list. That means this week will be all about Paris, are you up for that? I hope so…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday I got the idea to try to make a little book (a glimpse as seen in the first photo of this post)\u00c2\u00a0 filled with mementos and a few photographs for aunty joyce to be able to take back home to Sydney to show her friends and family. I had bought a little set of Paris stamps and created the book as we went, presenting it to her on Saturday night – I’ll describe how I made it in an upcoming post but I’ll show you snippets from it in each post so you can follow along with our adventures…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, day one! We decided to do a bit of a walking tour – with french boy as our fabulous (and very handsome, as aunty joyce kept telling me) guide. We started at the Jardin des Plantes<\/em> and wandered through the gardens, admiring the incredible flowers in bloom at the moment. We were all quite taken by the purple and blue blossom gardens, they were stunning, I particularly loved the artichoke bush. Then we strolled onto pont sully<\/em> and further along the Seine, taking in the view of the Notre Dame along the way. For lunch we headed straight to one of Romain and my favourite lunch spots – Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Louis-Philippe. The food, as always was delicious and cooked to perfection. We sat out in the courtyard, drank wine and talked about old times. Then we walked up rue du pont louis-philippe<\/em> and visited some of the shops. I took Joyce into M\u00c3\u00a9lodies Graphiques<\/em> and told her about the story of the lovers secret messages in the calligraphy notebook which I wrote about in my book<\/a>, then we wrote a little secret message of our own in there…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>photos from Paris: Made by Hand<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Joyce found a fab silk scarf in the neighbouring boutique, it suited her perfectly. The shop owner was rather wonderful, she encouraged Joyce to try on all sorts of feather boas and fancy hats. After that we wandered to the Notre Dame<\/em> to see it up close and personal, and then Saint Chapelle<\/em>. Even though the stained glass windows were quite spectacular I found myself mostly fascinated by the ceiling…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>and the floor…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And that was that, our first day in Paris together!\u00c2\u00a0 It was treacherous at moments with the wheelchair\u00c2\u00a0 – a couple of times we got stuck on a cobblestone or two and nearly hoisted Joyce right out onto the street! Laughter got us through those moments though. It’s certainly not a city made for wheelchairs but even so, there is still lots to be able to see and do. Luckily Joyce is still fairly mobile and was able to use the chair as a walking frame every now and then. Saint Chapelle<\/em><\/a> had a lift accessed within the Palais de Justice<\/em><\/a> so that was pretty cool to see the Palais from inside.<\/p>\n

Next up, day two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, what a fabulous time we’ve had. I can’t thank you enough for all your amazing comments on my last post, I told Joyce all about you and how much you are all thinking of her, she was moved to tears. It has been an amazing experience to be in Paris with her – I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris","category-stock-images"],"yoast_head":"\njoyce in paris: part one... - pia jane bijkerk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"joyce in paris: part one... - pia jane bijkerk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, what a fabulous time we’ve had. I can’t thank you enough for all your amazing comments on my last post, I told Joyce all about you and how much you are all thinking of her, she was moved to tears. It has been an amazing experience to be in Paris with her – I […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"pia jane bijkerk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-10T21:04:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-08-10T21:15:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"433\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"pia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"pia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/\",\"name\":\"joyce in paris: part one... - pia jane bijkerk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-10T21:04:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-08-10T21:15:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#\/schema\/person\/524acf6a6ce52a135fb3c7dc23d48bc1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg\",\"width\":\"500\",\"height\":\"433\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"joyce in paris: part one…\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/\",\"name\":\"pia jane bijkerk\",\"description\":\"enhance the everyday\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#\/schema\/person\/524acf6a6ce52a135fb3c7dc23d48bc1\",\"name\":\"pia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/118ac49223f9f4e5e9cafc8cb9854eb47c618f5fa73700add90df8c264fe9cea?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/118ac49223f9f4e5e9cafc8cb9854eb47c618f5fa73700add90df8c264fe9cea?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"pia\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/author\/pia\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"joyce in paris: part one... - pia jane bijkerk","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"joyce in paris: part one... - pia jane bijkerk","og_description":"Well, what a fabulous time we’ve had. I can’t thank you enough for all your amazing comments on my last post, I told Joyce all about you and how much you are all thinking of her, she was moved to tears. It has been an amazing experience to be in Paris with her – I […]","og_url":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/","og_site_name":"pia jane bijkerk","article_published_time":"2010-08-10T21:04:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2010-08-10T21:15:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":433,"url":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"pia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"pia","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/","url":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/","name":"joyce in paris: part one... - pia jane bijkerk","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg","datePublished":"2010-08-10T21:04:16+00:00","dateModified":"2010-08-10T21:15:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#\/schema\/person\/524acf6a6ce52a135fb3c7dc23d48bc1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PJB_joyceinparis1.jpg","width":"500","height":"433"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/08\/10\/joyce-in-paris-part-one\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"joyce in paris: part one…"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/","name":"pia jane bijkerk","description":"enhance the everyday","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#\/schema\/person\/524acf6a6ce52a135fb3c7dc23d48bc1","name":"pia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/118ac49223f9f4e5e9cafc8cb9854eb47c618f5fa73700add90df8c264fe9cea?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/118ac49223f9f4e5e9cafc8cb9854eb47c618f5fa73700add90df8c264fe9cea?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"pia"},"url":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/author\/pia\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10489"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10516,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions\/10516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}