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Hey, I'm Joseph 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 based in Paris🗼
Eurovision addict, travel bug, language lover, lapsed Esperantist, cat person 😺
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Bye for now, #GranCanaria 🇪🇸
The week in #Maspalomas went so fast. See you again next year 😎

#travelsky #travelgram #travelphotography #airports
A plane parked at LPA airport at sunrise, seen from the terminal window. Luggage is being transported to the plane on a small truck, and a few of the ground crew can be seen wearing bright reflective vests. Another plane can be seen taking off in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Useless but fun fact: the €5 bill I got in change at a bakery in Paris 🇫🇷 this morning was 584 km (363 miles) away in Germany 🇩🇪 1083 days ago.

en.eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=24...

#eurobilltracker
#euros #banknotes
A well-worn €5 bill
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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A few of the stray cats I saw last week on the Greek island of #Amorgos 🇬🇷

The kitten climbed into my backpack! If I weren't so far away from home, I might not have let it go 😹

#catlife #cattitude #caturday #greekcats #catsofgreece #catsoftheworld
#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catpics
An adorable kitten, possibly a tabby-calico mix, lying on a stone wall with the sea blurred in the background. Three orange cats along the front of a white building, all looking in different directions. A grey and white cat looking out from behind a wooden cafe table set up on stairs. A short-haired grey cat with tiger stripes on its front leg sitting by a fountain.
September 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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We're leaving Paros 🇬🇷 tomorrow. This cat has been the best thing about the hotel here.

#catlife #cattitude #caturday #greekcats #catsofgreece #catsoftheworld #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catpics
A mostly white cat with brown/grey patches poses beautifully for the camera. It has pale yellow/green eyes and its left ear is missing.
August 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Meet Meatball. He resides at the restaurant where we had lunch today in Paros 🇬🇷. He slept next to me the whole time we were there. This was some serious napping.

#catlife #cattitude #caturday #greekcats #catsofgreece #catsoftheworld #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catpics
A white and grey cat sleeps on a chair under a restaurant table, his white back paws and dark grey tail dangling prominently off the front of the seat.
August 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Hello from Greece! 🇬🇷 I can't believe how perfectly this cat posed for me today in the Naxos village of Apirathos.

#catlife #cattitude #caturday #greekcats #catsofgreece #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #travelphotos #travelsky
A grey tabby cat, missing the tip of its left ear, lies on its side looking at me, paws pointed forward, in an old stone building with blue sky visible where the roof and a window once were. Tall greenery has grown inside, behind where the cat is lying.
August 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Morris left us 6 months ago but he would have wanted to wish everyone a wonderful #InternationalCatDay today.

Morris nous a quittés il y a 6 mois mais il aurait voulu souhaiter à toutes et à tous une excellente #JourneeInternationaleDuChat.

#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catlife #cattitude #leschats
Morris, a long-haired orange tabby, looks at the camera as he sits at the dining room table with a coffee cup in front of him. His fluffy tail curls up over the armrest of the chair.
August 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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J'ai bien fait de rentrer du bureau à pied. Cette scène m'a fait sourire sans que je sache trop pourquoi.

Glad I walked home from work. I don't know why but seeing this made me smile.

#paris #parisvibes #eiffeltower #toureiffel #france #frenchsky #travelthursday #streetphotography #cityphotography
Two women, seen from behind, stand on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim bridge facing the Eiffel Tower. One of them is wearing a fancy dress, possibly a wedding gown, and holds a string of colorful balloons.
August 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Lola, the fabulous feline here at my happy vacation place in #Maspalomas #GranCanaria, says the bar is open!

#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catlife #catlovers #cattitude #catsky #caturday
Lola, a young grey and white cat, sits on a counter with a well stocked bar behind her and looks at me with her piercing eyes.
July 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It's so nice being in #GranCanaria again. I could walk the #Maspalomas beach for hours.

Quel plaisir d'être de retour à #GrandeCanarie. Je pourrais marcher des heures le long de cette plage.

#canaryislands #playadelingles #travelsky #travelpics #travelphotography #travelspain #traveladdicts
Beautiful blue sky over an uncrowded and seemingly endless sandy beach with the ocean to the right. A few people can be seen walking far ahead of me.
July 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Reggie and Freddy watching the rain yesterday from my mother's porch in upstate New York.

#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catlife #catlovers #catlove #cattitude #caturday #petsofbluesky #rainyday #upstateny
An orange and white tabby and a black tuxedo cat seen from behind sitting next to each other on a bench on a house porch overlooking a lawn, pine trees and a country lane.
June 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Visiting Mom in the States... and good ol' Reggie, who says hello and happy #caturday 😺

#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #catlife #catlovers #cattitude #petsofbluesky
Reggie, a senior orange and white tabby with a scar on his nose, sits in front of a window looking at us with a lawn and greenery in the background.
May 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#Eurovision Song Contest final tonight! Allez la France! 🇫🇷 #esc2025
Yours truly looking overexcited and holding up a FRANCE Eurovision fan scarf
May 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I took this picture on the amazing Greek island of #Amorgos 10 years ago. Looking forward to going back this summer 🇬🇷 😎

#greece #greekislands #traveladdicts #travelsky #catsky #greekcats #catsofgreece #catsofbluesky #caturday
A calico cat lies on a stone ledge painted in colors similar to its fur. In the background to the left, a rocky cliff and the blue sea down below.
April 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The language geek and cat fan in me couldn't resist picking up this sweet little book when I was in #Ireland 🇮🇪 last week. There's a version for dogs too. Both are also of use to humans curious about the #Irish language.

#irishlanguage #languagelearning #langsky #catsky #booksky #booklovers
Cover of the book "Teach Your Cat Irish" by Anne Cakebread. The cover is green with a cute illustration of a black cat's face in a white circle. Two pages from the delightfully illustrated book "Teach Your Cat Irish" by Anne Cakebread. Here, we learn how to pronounce "dia duit" (hello). It involves a gargling sound. Book ©️ Anne Cakebread & Y Lolfa Cyg., 2023.
April 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Standing in #Dublin 🇮🇪 smiling and waving at people in #Philadelphia 🇺🇸 as they smile and wave back. The world needs more of this 🫶

#DublinPortal #visitdublin #streetphotography #cityphotography #travelphotography #traveltheworld #traveladdicts
In Dublin after dark, on a large round screen in the street, we see it's still daylight in Philadephia where a small group of curious people smile back at us. We see the back of a guy on the Dublin side waving at the screen. In Dublin after dark, on a large round screen in the street, we see it's still daylight in Philadephia where a small group of people wave and smile exuberantly back at us.
April 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I couldn't come to #Dublin 🇮🇪 without saying hello to #OscarWilde...

#travelsky #visitdublin
Yours truly standing below the Oscar Wilde statue in Dublin's Merrion Square Park. Wilde reclines nonchalantly on a boulder.
April 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Just little old me in Ireland for a few days 🇮🇪
Yours truly sitting on a blue bench in the Malahide Castle gardens. The back of the bench is in the shape of a blue butterfly towering above me. Yours truly sitting on a wooden bench with a large carved owl at both ends and four butterflies carved into the back, two on each side. A green lawn, a few trees and part of Malahide Castle are visible in the background.
April 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Exactly 100 days until I go back to my happy place in #Maspalomas... but who's counting? 😅

#playadelingles #grancanaria #canaryislands #travel #travelpics #travelsky #vacation #happyplace
A swimming pool at dusk surrounded by empty, backlit sun loungers at a small resort. An inflatable tube ring and a pool mattress, both in rainbow colors, float in the water along with a few small rubber balls. The sky, clouds, and palm trees at the back are reflected in the pool.
March 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Joyeux anniversaire à Gabie, qui fête ses 15 ans!

Happy 15th birthday to Gabbie!

🥳😺🥳

#blueskycats #catsofbluesky #catslife #cattitude #leschats
Gabbie, a dark grey cat with black stripes, a white bib, green eyes and long whiskers looks at the camera as she sits in a Paris apartment window with green and yellow leaves in the background.
January 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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En rentrant du bureau le #RER s'est arrêté sur le pont juste le temps que je prenne cette photo.

On my way home from the office the train stopped on the bridge just long enough for me to get this shot.

#paris #parisfrance #eiffeltower #parisphotography #cityphotography #urbanphotography #frenchsky
Paris night photo. Reflections from inside an RER C train are visible in the window through which the illuminated Eiffel Tower can be seen.
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Last weekend I had dinner with an old friend from work. She knows I like #penguins and made one for me at her #ceramics class. So sweet!

Pasintsemajnfine mi vespermanĝis kun emerita laboramikino. Ŝi scias ke mi ŝatas pingvenojn kaj faris ceramikan pingvenon por mi. Kiel aminde!

#esperanto #penguin
Photo of a cute little ceramic penguin made and painted by my friend Jane. Colorful blurred Christmas tree lights in the background.
January 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I think I'll have the Greek salad instead...

#duolingo #langsky #langchat #languagelearning #languages #greek
Duolingo Greek course screenshot. The illustrated character Lily, very thin, dressed in purple, and with purple hair, asked me to translate the phrase "the soup is pink" from Greek into English.
January 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Cadeau pour un ami que je veux garder pour moi : Un recueil de mots du XIXe siècle disparus du dictionnaire Larousse.

A gift I got for a friend that I want to keep for myself: 19th century words dropped from the Larousse #French dictionary over time.

#langsky #frenchlanguage #frenchbooks #français
Cover of the book "Les mots disparus de Pierre Larousse" : Toute la saveur des mots du XIXe siècle aujourd'hui oubliés. Published in October 2024 by Larousse.
December 31, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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I've started #Latin on #Duolingo and it's a wild ride.

#language #languagelearning #langsky #learnlatin #latinlanguage #lingualatina
Duolingo screenshot. The character Bea looks cheekily at the phrase "Ubi sunt sepulchra?" = Where are the graves?
December 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM