The first weekend in May found me visiting the bf in Rennes again. We took a day trip to the city of Nantes on Sunday, where we visited the castle of the Dukes of Brittany (below) and the nice history museum they have there. Being the first Sunday of the month all the museums were free, so we went to the Beaux Arts museum as well.
This past weekend was pretty busy. On Friday my friends Jenn, Rachael and I had a picnic at the
Place des Vosges, followed by some wandering in the Marais, a trip to the Picasso museum and watching Roman Holiday on the big screen at a movie theatre right by the Arc de Triomphe. Saturday and Sunday I spent with my host mom and her family (that's me with the little cousins in the picture and with the family below) at their country house up by the Normandy region. The house is gorgeous with lilacs blooming everywhere at this time of year. As much as I love Paris, I am always happy to go somewhere a little more peaceful and this definitely did the trick. Today I've started to get back into the swing of things, going grocery shopping and doing homework (if anyone has read Le Paysan de Paris and would like to summarize it for me that would be wonderful), but I also visited the Gustav Eiffel exhibit at the Hôtel de Ville. I didn't think the exhibit was very well put together, but there was some interesting information there and some great paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Marc Chagall and Raoul Dufy (two of my favorite painters).
Things on the agenda for this week: an exposition at the Louvre on the museum during WWII and visiting Buttes-Chaumont and Andre Citroen parks (if the weather is good). For now I'm off to do some homework and then watch the news. Ciao :)
(The goat comes from the Picasso museum, where I didn't find many things that I liked. I actually only went because I wanted to give Picasso a chance before I confirmed once and for all that I'm not a fan of his. However, the goat I liked because he reminds me of Chagall.)
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