Friday, September 28, 2018

Today’s project was to go to the interactive Atelier des Lumieres exposition. This took some doing as the website didn’t like my credit card and various phone calls had to be made to get it working. Eventually success. In this exhibit they project moving art on all surfaces except the ceiling and play various classical music pieces, hard to describe, but really cool. See link below for some video. After that, went to a favorite neighborhood restaurant, L’Estaminet in Oberkampf for some lunch and then headed to Opera Garner to see the building. Unfortunately it has been off limits for a few days and the crowd was really big, so that will have to be saved for another time. Headed over to Montparnasse tower to go to the top. This is the one somewhat hideous hi rise built in the ’70s in the middle of Paris. View from the terrace on the 56th floor is pretty good, but hazy, see photos. After a stop at Le Select for a glass, it was a walk through the Luxembourg gardens and then past Pl. St. Sulpice. Lots of interesting memories from my daily commute as a 10 year old. Basically, walk from Pl. St. Sulpice to the Luxembourg RER station, through the park and take the train about 25 minutes to Parc de Sceaux, where Ecole Nouvelle D’Antony had agreed to take us. Then the reverse in the evenings. Pretty solid day considering French schools go until 4:30pm every day. For dinner I met up with JR and AY and we headed to a favorite restaurant of their, Les Enfants Rouge, French with Japanese chef, waiters etc. and the best meal I have had on this trip so far. Just wow! Pictures in the Restaurants section.

This was the Atelier des Lumieres Klimt exhibit, classical music in the background pretty remarkable, to see it in action: https://www.atelier-lumieres.com

That is the Jardin du Luxembourg as seen from the top of Montparnasse tower.This is the St. Sulpice church, with the building that I lived in next door.

6 Place St. Sulpice, where I lived as a 10-12 year old.

The carousel at Luxembourg gardens, it has shrunk since I used to ride it. You are given a baton to try and snag rings as you spin around.