Thanks for all your updates. This one has me searching for sundresses in every fabric and billowy design (on sale). You are living the dream. Thanks again!
Another great option is to go to your local Picard (so grateful for mine in Le Vesinet!) and intently study all—and i do mean all—the frozen offerings. Discipline notwithstanding you do end up lugging home superfluities for the much abused freezer.
I think loose linen is the key, but stay as covered up as you like - I prefer soft washed linen, medium weight, for trousers, and sleeved tops always. Have you seen the lovely linen clothing you can get from Etsy shops like this one in Lithuania, which will also customise leg lengths and sleeves for you? https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KnockKnockLinen
Well, they may have shut them down by them because they’re only open in the summer, but people still dip in illegally like those kids jumping off the bridge.
This is so on the mark! We are using the same “close all drapes and blinds during daylight hours” technique with fans full blast in each room. Let’s hope that was our 1 canicule for the year.
You should visit Aus. We are so used to the heat that we cannot understand Europeans who get hysterical at 100 degree heat, mind you in the summer we do close all the windows and curtains and run our A/C. However, Melbourne is very cold at the moment as it's winter, in fact colder than I can remember. I am pretty sure that when Peter and I get to Paris in early November it will be too cold for us and we will and looking forward to coming home to a hot Australian summer.
So true. Australia always wins the wild weather award. Tho northern European cities were not built for this sort of thing and it’s going to be a bitch to convert them . When it finally rained here, I was so happy to see 57° weather, and then I got sick of that pretty quickly. We human beings are never happy. Even people who live temperate weather areas and when there is, the mercurial climate Gods punish you with things like mudslides and fires. Sigh
Your descriptions of Parisian fashion are unmatched, Susanna! It really is a confidence game, isn't it? Thank you for this hilarious and sweltering update!
Another great option is to go to your local Picard (so grateful for mine in Le Vesinet!) and intently study all—and i do mean all—the frozen offerings. Discipline notwithstanding you do end up lugging home superfluities for the much abused freezer.
Another great option is to go to your local Picard (so grateful for mine in Le Vesinet!) and intently study all—and i do mean all—the frozen offerings. Discipline notwithstanding you do end up lugging home superfluities for the much abused freezer.
Just like Paris to suffer in le clime and still be tres sympa! Love the grand-mere goth image
Merci! Why age gracefully in caftans when you can lurk in black?
Thanks for all your updates. This one has me searching for sundresses in every fabric and billowy design (on sale). You are living the dream. Thanks again!
Aw thanks
I really enjoyed this then delighted to find Im already subscribed! More news and views of Paris,all welcome.
I'm so glad!
I, too, have never figured out how to dress for the heat but elder Paris vampire? That just might be the capsule wardrobe I've been searching for. 😂😘
If you’re a vampire, you have an excuse covering up. That’s my theory, although I would’ve expected to have smoother skin in that case hee hee
Wow that's an insane drop! 62 degrees? Brrrrr.
The image of you somehow still slouching around in black during a canicule is priceless... may you survive the next one with ease!
I’m learning lessons every season, I swear to God by someday, I’ll have the wardrobe thing down too!
Another great option is to go to your local Picard (so grateful for mine in Le Vesinet!) and intently study all—and i do mean all—the frozen offerings. Discipline notwithstanding you do end up lugging home superfluities for the much abused freezer.
Oh I do love Picard, I almost put a joke in there about lying down on their glass cases mid-canicule 😂
Hope you read mine too about the 42 degrees in Greece! I beg to defer. Closing the Acropolis?? Mais non!
They closed the top of the Eiffel Tower didn’t want tourist melting into the roof deck. Link, please!
https://open.substack.com/pub/karendavisathanassiadis/p/europe-is-melting?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=2l4fga&utm_medium=ios
You didn’t mention you have an air conditioner !!
But I’m forbidden to turn them on!!
🤣
And as you see, that presents its own problems!
I think loose linen is the key, but stay as covered up as you like - I prefer soft washed linen, medium weight, for trousers, and sleeved tops always. Have you seen the lovely linen clothing you can get from Etsy shops like this one in Lithuania, which will also customise leg lengths and sleeves for you? https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KnockKnockLinen
I have not but now I’m going to go look! Thanks, claire
Kiffer sa vie”
https://howtosayguide.com/how-to-say-living-the-dream-in-french/
Such a vivid picture of you lurking in black!
Hee hee
Great article. We are hoping to come to Paris in August and want to try the Canal St Martin pools.
Well, they may have shut them down by them because they’re only open in the summer, but people still dip in illegally like those kids jumping off the bridge.
Thank you for the heads up. I will check it out if we are visiting Paris in August.
This is so on the mark! We are using the same “close all drapes and blinds during daylight hours” technique with fans full blast in each room. Let’s hope that was our 1 canicule for the year.
Thank you! I think I need like four more fans
Thanks 🧡! Also: I need more fans!
You should visit Aus. We are so used to the heat that we cannot understand Europeans who get hysterical at 100 degree heat, mind you in the summer we do close all the windows and curtains and run our A/C. However, Melbourne is very cold at the moment as it's winter, in fact colder than I can remember. I am pretty sure that when Peter and I get to Paris in early November it will be too cold for us and we will and looking forward to coming home to a hot Australian summer.
So true. Australia always wins the wild weather award. Tho northern European cities were not built for this sort of thing and it’s going to be a bitch to convert them . When it finally rained here, I was so happy to see 57° weather, and then I got sick of that pretty quickly. We human beings are never happy. Even people who live temperate weather areas and when there is, the mercurial climate Gods punish you with things like mudslides and fires. Sigh
Your descriptions of Parisian fashion are unmatched, Susanna! It really is a confidence game, isn't it? Thank you for this hilarious and sweltering update!
Another great option is to go to your local Picard (so grateful for mine in Le Vesinet!) and intently study all—and i do mean all—the frozen offerings. Discipline notwithstanding you do end up lugging home superfluities for the much abused freezer.
Another great option is to go to your local Picard (so grateful for mine in Le Vesinet!) and intently study all—and i do mean all—the frozen offerings. Discipline notwithstanding you do end up lugging home superfluities for the much abused freezer.