Monday 31.10: Musée de l'Orangerie and Centre Pompidou

We took the metro to Place Concorde. Large square, not so much traffic (but much more on the périphériques along the Seine). 

The queue to the museum was large, but thanks to our museum Pass, we could get in within 5-10 minutes. We saw some fresques from Monet, huge, but I am not able to like or understand / appreciate the work.



We then walked along the Seine to the Jardin des Tuileries, a very nice large park. We had a cookie,, ice-scream and a coffee.


Metro again (we have 6 days pass, works wonder ;-) to Hotel de Ville and we walked to the Centre Pompidou, still dry and rather warm weather.
Beautiful modern art, too many to include here. With two of my favorites (Braque - on the left and Picasso)



 Antoine Pevsner

Oue legs being very tired, we went for a beer and returned to the Atelier Brancusi, a Romanian sculpture we appreciate very much (Ta introduced me to his art in RO)..






We then walked around the Quartier des Archives and found the National Archives building by chance.



Which reminded me about my archiver's work before retiring.
We ate in one of the small restaurant on the curb. Nothing to write home about.
There was some unexpected rain to get to the metro station.
Good night. Back to the hotel. 















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