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[Guest post by Tapas Mitra in Paris and London] It was not intended to be the whirlwind trip that it became. It was designed as a relaxed, contemplative and atmospheric vacation in France and England: a couple of days in the French Alps, a few days of leisurely strolls in England’s Lake District. But that was not to be due to the late arrival of the French visa which curtailed the trip by a few days, and the result was a non-stop hop-on hop-off across Paris, London and English towns.

The sketches, hence, were always rough and done on the go. The relatively complete ones were done when we were not moving; these were from hotel windows, in public transport, in cafes or at places where I could hide myself from my family and friends and pull out that quiet sketch time. The most photographed sights are absent from this travel account since I hardly had time to visually digest what I saw, and we would leave a site for a new venue before I could take my sketchbook out.

It started with a long flight from Delhi to Paris, with a stopover at Abu Dhabi. We spent our first evening in Paris in the Place de la République, near our hotel. This sketch shows the lower part of the statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.

From our hotel window I could look across the road and see this house down a narrow street.

This sketch shows the girl who served us at the Chinese restaurant near the hotel, and the Laughing Buddha on the restaurant window sill.

On the left is a street in the city of Versailles. We spent the afternoon at a cafe on this street after our visit to the Palace of Versailles. On the right is a beautiful building on Rue Montorgueil, the famous market street in central Paris. The art enthusiast may recall the famous Claude Monet painting of this street celebrating the street scene and people in his characteristic dense brushstrokes. My sketch, in comparison, is very quiet.

In the gardens of the Palace of Versailles I made studies of statues; it is arguably the largest open-air sculpture gallery in the world.

On the left is a black cat on the steps of our Airbnb in Paris. It echoes the celebrated Le Chat Noir poster of a cat by Théophile Steinlen (and not Toulouse-Lautrec, as we were sternly told at the reception desk of the tiny museum in Montmartre village, which featured works of the village artists from the heydays of impressionism). On the right is the portrait, a little exaggerated perhaps, of a paleontologist we met on board the Eurostar on the way to London. She was travelling to London via Paris on her return from a field trip in Latin America.

In London we stayed at my wife's cousin's place, in a house on the magnificent Hampstead Heath. On the right is their Bernese mountain dog, named Baloo after Kipling's bear in The Jungle Book. The top image shows the London skyline across the Thames from the Tower of London side. The Shard, the tallest skyscraper in the UK, dominates the skyline.

We spent a day at the Gladstone Pottery Museum at Stoke-on-Trent, and marvelled at how a defunct factory has been turned into a museum.

The trip is over! My wife and daughter rest on the train, exhausted after the hectic trip.

Tapas Mitra is an urban sketcher and academic. His previous guest posts featured Indian airports, street vendors in Bhopal, and the city of Lucknow. He lectured at the 8th Urban Sketchers symposium in Chicago. Originally from Calcutta, he lives and works in Bhopal with his wife and daughter.

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