Friday 25 November 2011

Gay Paris

Yes, back beside the Seine again last weekend, sun a-shining and have no idea what these really are but ain't they grand?
Have some characteristics of Victorian social housing but maybe its a bit too fancy for that.  It's close to the Gare du Lyon.
 
Had the strange experience of staying two nights in a building (Novotel Gare Du Lyon) which I half liked and half didn't. It seemed torn between two decades (no prizes for guessing the decade I was interested in) although all in all it was well executed, vigerous and all that....
 
 






actually it's not bad is it?
nice tiles

2 comments:

  1. Definitely social housing in first picture. These were mostly built in the 1930s, and were known as HBMs. No reason why they shouldn't be grand though - don't forget that even today a lot of 'social' housing in France is in fact for the middle classes.

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