Weather You Like It Or Not

Weather You Like It Or Not, originally uploaded by Paris Set Me Free.

It escapes me as to the whys and wherefores but for some reason a lot of people seem to think that macaronness is next to Godliness.

I know! Go figure. A mouthful of mushy sickly-sweet goo, and they're floating on cloud nine, these macaroon-munching madames. I count friends amongst them, but they know me; always ranting on about something or other (and more often than not about macarons) so they'll humour me.

A blustery day, it was it was, as I took this umbrella-laden picture in front of every macaroonaholic's Mecca: a place called Ladurée just off the place de la Madeleine, on rue Royale. There are probably others scattered around the place, but this is the one I was passing in a flurry of falling raindrops in a July most sunlovers are moaning about here in Paris but I'm quite enjoying.

Being Edinburgh-born, I'm not too fond of the hot weather so many here seem to crave, so a few mid-summer weeks of coolness and relatively sweat-free travel suits me just fine. And I've got a feeling August has something rather hot in store for us. This'll do for now.