...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Musee D'Orsay
I love their logo
Little did Van G know he'd be doing the signature piece for a museum
Interior of the old train station...lots of clocks
Clock view of Mont Martre
2nd floor aerial view of the large model of the old Paris Opera; an aviator has skillfully landed his paper airplane on the roof (how many other blogs will show you such keen-eyed observations?)
Another unusual view, looking out the fifth floor escalator on the entry side
Renoir's portait of Wagner
Source of the Coca Cola polar bear ad image
Not pictured: my favorite D'Orsay piece, Courbet's L'Origine du monde. I have pix of all the usual D'Orsay classics, if anyone wants to see them, but thought today's blog might feature the unusual. Courbet is a bit too unusual, and I'd probably have to have the blog status changed to "mature content" or somesuch.
Leon of Brussels
The Leon's near Les Halles
Me, demonstrating proper technique
Interior, with Manneqin Pis replica
Two carafes of Eau de Paris
Our (well, Rachel's and my) favorite mussels and frites restaurant in Paris; now with 9 locations. Much as I love mussels and frites here, and the muscadet, nothing compares with the green shells of New Zealand.
Saint Chapelle
Ile de Cite, Rive Gauche, etc.
Notre Dame
South river view of the great cathedral
Our crew again
Charlemagne statue outside the Cathedral; I thought his capital was Aachen
Celing
Rose eindow
One of many windows
Diorama of medieval construction of cathedral
When the cathedral was renovated in the 19th century--thank you, Victor Hugo--the architect had himself portrayed examining the new spire he had constructed
Work continues...and I don't find the scaffolding as objectionable as I used to
Louvre I
Our crew consulting a local map
Before the Louvre was the Louvre, or even the Palais Royal, there was a six-towered royal fortress on the site, much of which remains beneath the present Louvre
At the outbreak of WW2, the major assets of the Louvre were packed up and distributed around France for safe-keeping; there is a great exhibition on this under-way
Unusual stern view of Venus de Milo; by this time I was getting restless
Another sculpture hospital
Still my favorite, the Winged Victory
Closer view
It was a warm day in Paris
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Pompidou I
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