Thursday Doors in Gay Paree

Ah, Paris in the spring! What could be more romantic? It seems like aeons since we last travelled overseas, so les portes de Paris beckoned and I snapped away.

The Public Baths in the 4th Arrondissement (opposite the Pompidou Centre). Boring new doors without much character – the originals must have been splendid

From the ridiculous to the sublime. The western door to the Bourse (Stock Exchange)

You can’t see the door because of the creeper, but the facade is beautiful, fin de siecle, neo classical architecture, Place Saint Georges

Of course, Paris would not be Paris without excellent small restaurants, “Joy for Food” on the Rue Truffaut

And a set of doors from the Louvre, with the I M Pei pyramid reflected in the glass

The doors are wide open at the Florida Bar, by Les Halles and St Eustace’s church. I suppose the doors are always wide open at this bar, not just as a precaution against coronavirus.

Presto Fresco is an Italian restaurant, with kitschy and homestyle decor, but I could only get the top of the doors in the picture because of the street market stall in front.