Christmas lights and windows in Paris

I know it’s New Year already but over the last few days we have seen a lot of Christmas lights here in Paris – the City of Lights.

Some of the most spectacular have been at the shopping centres:

Printemps with their Prada designed windows, and

Galeries Lafayette with their multi-storey Swarovski crystal Christmas tree.

But, many of the streets are also decorated and some smaller shops have put on some pretty good displays.

Here are a few examples:

Street scene near the Notre Dame

Just around the corner from the above photo

A window near where we are staying

And these from the Printemps Christmas windows - sponsored by Prada

Along the front of the Printemps department store

The front of the Galeries Lafayette store