Paris
Day 30: A Final Sojourn…
Up early to start the packing. Out early to start the wandering. There was bubble guy, there was good lunch, there was gelato (not pictured)… and I found more stuff for dad’s friend while I was out. Back to the apartment by 3:00 so that I could finish the last of the cleaning before the […]
Day 29: Launch Prep
Thursday dawned bright and shiny with intermittent showers. And so began the cleaning of the apartment in preparation for departure. The afternoon was filled with hanging with friends for a tasty lunch from a gourmet place that sells everything in little glass pots. Quite good! Then goodbyes were said, and work was done despite it […]
Day 28: Last Time on “Clay in Paris”…
When we last left our intrepid hero, he was headed home from an amazing dinner where he ate raw horse. (Yeah, bitches, that’s what you get for not looking at all the pictures! No punches pulled here!!) Upon returning to Chez des Ecouffes, he discovered a series of emails informing him that the Moron Life […]
Day 27: Flea Bites (Picpus)
May 1st is Labor Day in France, so everyone has a holiday. I scheduled a walking tour with Paris Greeters, which is this service where natives of Paris will take you on a historical/social walking tour of parts of the city for free. The walk I was schedule for was through the old village of […]
Day 26: Wandering
Monday, pre-work, was spent wandering through the city trying to find some items I was tasked with bringing back from Paris for a friend of my dad’s. At the same time, I was looking for interesting things to bring back for MYSELF. As always, I had my camera with me, and stopped when I stumbled […]
Day 25b: Eux 2 – le boogaloo électrique
Post beers with Naomi, I headed over to Place Pigale for a coffee, then hit Théâtre Le Bout again for another episode of Eux – Compagnie d’Improvisation‘s Les improbables aventures des Eux. Again, I understood about 8 to 10% of the dialogue. This show was a bit more complex, but I was still able to […]
Day 25: Cité de la Musique
Had a meeting set up with Naomi to meet at la Cité de la Musique to go see the Bob Dylan exhibit there. I was up and ready a bit early, so I walked down to la Bastille and lo and behold, THE BIGGEST FREAKIN FARMERS MARKET I’D EVER SEEN!! Wandered up and down it’s […]
Day 24: Rainy Saturday
I woke up Saturday morning REALLY sad. 1 week left. It went so fast. I didn’t want to go home. It was looking like it was going to be a day of moping around the apartment with my broody face on, but I decided to force myself out into the open, despite the persistent rain […]
Day 23: The Opera House
Along with the bonus of skipping the line at Museé d’Orsay, my ticket also got me a discount on a self guided tour at the Paris Opera House. Now, I’d been by the building the other day, and it was HAWESOME. And there were some models of the building at d’Orsay, which just spurred my […]
Day 22: Museé d’Orsay
So apparently the third time *IS* a charm. Took my ticket from l’Orangerie to door C and got into d’Orsay without having to stand in the (yet again) gargantuan line. No photographs in the museum, of course. But that didn’t stop me from taking some. 🙂 I spent most of my time in the Impressionists […]