Weekend Recap

Friday was mostly nul except for a visit to the Louvre to see the painting I'm writing about for my art history final.

Saturday was much better as it included three of my favorite things- a museum, a park and books. I went first to the Bourdelle Museum, which is not so far at all from Montparnasse. The museum used to be Antoine Bourdelle's atelier (studio) and now lots of his sculptures are kept there. I was a little bit distracted during the visit (meeting the bf's dad for the first time), so I'd like to go back and go through it again. After some lunch I wandered deeper into the 15th, down to Parc George Brassens and the USED BOOK MARKET they have there every weekend. They have hundreds of novels for 1.50 or 2 euros and a lot of antique books as well. Needless to say I got two books and a birthday present for someone, then headed home to enjoy said books. The one I started, Fort comme la mort, by Maupassant is going excellently.

Sunday started with me being very lazy and sleeping till 11:30 (I was tired!) and then heading to the movies to see Good Morning England (very funny, I recommend it). I wandered for a bit and eventually found my way over to Bastille and the cafe I always go to, Chez Oscar.

I started out today by taking the bus to the Jardin des Plantes, the botanical gardens. I had been really excited to see it, but now would say its definitely not one of my favorite parks (although I did see some toads). This is possibly due to the fact that it seems to be field trip season for French elementary schools and there were noisy kids running around everywhere. And it just wasn't as pretty as the Botanical Gardens in Belfast. The one part I really liked however, was the Iris Garden. Then I crossed the river, walked to Sully-Morland and took the metro to rue Sainte-Anne (full of Asian restaurants) and got some Japanese food (which I've been craving for ages. It seems as soon as I eat it, a new craving begins). After eating the most impossibly large bowl of vegetarian Lamen soup I slowly made my way over to the Pompidou Center. I really wanted to see the Kandinsky exhibit, but wasn't in the mood to pay 9 euros for it, so I just went to the Contemporary Art Museum, which I got into for free. Favorites- Chagall and Matisse. Once it moves into squares and lines I'm lost.