Hurray, Paris' cafés and restaurants have opened up their terraces this week. It has been a long awaited loosening of government restrictions.
Parisian cafés remained open throughout virtually every historic challenge that has come their way. They didn’t go dark during the Nazi occupation in World War II or even after the terrorist attacks of November 2015, which targeted precisely the joie de vivre they represent.
Parisians have never surrendered that stronghold but along came Coronavirus and things changed! Overnight, literally, everything closed down and it seemed like the city's heart stopped beating.
The usually gloomy gray skies were absent during the past two months of confinement. The weather has been extraordinary and when the sun shines in Paris, residents immediately stream out of their tiny flats to soak up the rays in parks and on terraces. Only in our dreams have we been able to do so... until this week.
Paris - still under temporary restrictions - is now allowed to open the outer spaces, at least for the next three weeks.
Finally! The café chatter is back, the chaos on the pavements welcomed and the local community is enjoying each others company in absence of the hoards of tourists. The arrondissements have turned back to becoming villages and we are all able to chill, work on your tan or sip a glass of rosé.
Café Carette is a Parisian institution: delicious and over-priced!
Open for business
Let the sun shine in
The perfect view from the Café du Trocadero
Happy to be out and about again.
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