Sunday and Monday in Paris were HOT. In a way that la Sconita does not enjoy. Thank goodness its now back to 60's and rain :) However, the wandering that I was enjoying over the weekend has been put to an end, to be replaced by museums. After the Orangerie today, where the huge waterlily paintings by Monet are glued to the wall and joined by some rather second rate paintings from a previously private collection I went to the Musée de la vie romantique. As in Romantic writers. And I have to say that it was possibly one of the strangest museums I've ever been to. I think I needed more background information on people like George Sand and Any Scheffer to really enjoy all the paintings OF them, BY them...and their rings and hair clippings. Anyways. Seeing as I was already in the Montmartre neighborhood I headed over to this restaurant I knew by the Abesses metro stop and got a steak juste poêlé before I vanished from being so famished. A step above steak tartare (completely rare), this meat was slightly brown (sauteed I believe) and I ordered it on a very large and dangerous whim. But it was actually pretty decent. Strangely spicy? Anyway I ate most of it and haven't dropped dead yet (which I think most Americans would have done by now).
In a very exciting news update, I'm heading to Aix en Provence in the south of France this weekend to visit my long lost friend Whittles! I also encourage everyone to check out the newest blog on Wisconsin politics...http://thesconz.wordpress.com/
Rue Rambuteau, by the Centre Pompidou, in the heat
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