Centre de Pompidou

Wed March 18, 2009
We had a lowkey morning today. We walked to the grocery store to get some bread, cheese and yogurt. Then on the way back we stopped for a café au lait with pain au chocolat and sat in the sunshine at Café Saint Jean.
Today we went to the Pompidou Centre! Mom was really excited about all the modern art: Jackson Pollock, Picasso, Delauney, Duchamp and Matisse. Cool stuff. I’m not a huge modern art fan though; I could put a toilet on display and call it art too! Just give it a title that doesn’t make any sense and people will think its brilliant. Of course not all modern art is like that but still. It was cool though. I liked the Picasso and Delauney.
Then we went outside and sat down in the square to eat some lunch. There was a girl playing a didgeridoo and was very skilled. So we ate some camembert and baguette while we listened to her. We headed up Rue de Rivoli towards the Bastille which of course is no longer there. We stopped for a iced coffee in the hot sun before figuring out where the English bookstore was (I need the second book in my series). They didn’t have it so we moved onto the Bastille. There is really nothing to see except a big column (I’ve seen plenty of columns and this was nothing special) and the Opera de Bastille. So we headed to the Carnivalet Museum which is basically an old mansions that was built as a Parisian residence for the royalty at the time of the revolution but it was never used. It was decorated very much the same way as Versailles. Tons of oil paintings. There were nice inner courtyards too with gardens. But we were pretty tired from the museum so we headed back to the hotel. We had a rest before heading out for a delicious and warm traditional French Onion soup. It was awesome. Then we came back and watched Australia. It’s a great movie you should see it. So that’s that!

EMBLEM OF THE DAY:
Sitting in the very warm sunshine on the patio of a nice café on Rue de Rivoli and drinking my café glace.