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Day 82: Gasp, wide eyes!
Métro stations in Paris have their own characters. Certain stations are cultural, e.g. if you’re at Louvre-Rivoli, you’ll see casings with “artefacts” to reflect the fact that you’re at the station...
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Day 206: Cultural station – Kiosque des Noctambules
The very first time I walked past the kiosque des noctambules (sure, I didn’t know the name back then either) I was perplexed by its colourful bejewelled state (who installed a glass bead-like art...
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Day 213: Cultural station – Arts et Métiers
A number of métro stations in Paris are not your typical stations bombarded with advertisements and just tunnels and stairs to get places. These are known as cultural stations. At times, the cultural...
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Day 231: Métro
It has been said that, in Paris, on average, one can find a métro station within 500m radius of his/her standing point. With some 300 stations servicing the city (and more to come with extensions...
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Day 233: Eiffel Tower, again
I’m doing a lot of river crossing this weekend. Today, instead of walking, I was on the métro (Line 6) and between the stops of Bir-Hakeim and Passy, for some reason, the driver decided to go slow...
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Day 238: Cultural station – Cluny la Sorbonne
I’ve previously blogged about a couple of cultural métro stations, and I think it’s not a bad series of sub-category to write about when it comes to things related to Paris. If I recall correctly from...
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Day 281: Cultural station – Saint-Germain-des-Près
The métro station of Saint-Germain-des-Près is special, in that, unlike all other (cultural) stations in the city, it doesn’t have large billboard spaces. Just clean, white-tiled curved walls. And...
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Day 301: Cultural station – Concorde
At the first glance, the walls of the Concorde station (for métro line 12, not 1 nor 8) seem to contain a whole bunch of decorative and alphabetised tiles, but surely that cannot be. If you take a...
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Day 350: Cultural station – (Headless) Ryaba la Poule
It’s time for a new instalment of cultural station, don’t you think? I happened to be on my way to Madeleine today so instead of taking a bus like I normally would, I took the metro instead so I can...
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(Stealthy) free ride
And this is how they ride for free… Take the public transport often enough and the various methods employed by fare evaders would have been clear. However, as the general consensus holds firm to the...
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Project 365 – Week 5
As I’ve promised previously, back to normal transmission. I’m glad that the days are getting longer, but I’m a tad frustrated too that I’m rather busy at work so by the time I’m out of the office, it’s...
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Project 365 – Week 25
Summer officially kicked in in the later part of the week but whoever up there who’s supposed to dish out the correct weather condition seems to have missed the memo. We started the week with crazy...
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Project 365 – Week 49
It had been a good week. I finally completed my first MOOCs, after sitting through two exams this week, and there will be a couple more to come in the next fortnight. The weather took a turn for the...
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