One might be inclined to believe that Monnaie de Paris, located in the building that still houses half of the French mint (the actual production facility was moved outside of Paris a few decades ago, thus leaving the design studio) would be home to a museum about manufacturing coins, complete with a description of the …
We’re in the midst of a recuperation weekend; the Purrito’s brief voyage back to Texas was draining to the point that we abandoned the normal keep-her-awake-by-running-around plans in favor of chilling chez nous. All of which is supposed to provide a coherent establishing story to why I found myself standing on our balcony staring at …
Last weekend’s (in my defense, it’s been a rough week) wanderings around le marais were particularly productive from the standpoint of checking things off of The List: we saw église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, hit an exhibit about a forgotten wildlife painter at musée Cognacq-Jay, saw a surprisingly interesting exhibit at the galerie des bibliothèques de la Ville …
Having learned our lesson last year (Saturdays should be considered no-go days), we attended the 2016 version of the Salon de l’agriculture on Sunday, and had a much better time for it. While the crowds were still significant, we were able to wander through areas which we’d had to bypass last year due to the …
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Nestled in the list that enumerates my many flaws is the fact that I really don’t give much of a shit about cars. While 15-year-old me was excited to acquire his driver’s license (New Mexico before the minimum driving age was raised, brah) and couldn’t fathom the gap between wanting to go wherever and actually …
Our previously-thwarted Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine and Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet trip was finally completed on Saturday, but perhaps, in retrospect, the universe was trying to tell us something when it prevented us from going a couple of weeks ago. First up was Cité, which was the site of the previously-mentioned AUA …
Friday evening found us (finally; the Purrito has wanted to see a film in this theatre for quite a while now) at le Grand rex, for a ciné-concert (read: movie with a live orchestra providing the soundtrack) presentation of the first Pirates des Caraïbes flick. As Pirates isn’t what one would describe as particularly complex from a …
Our cascading failure state continued into Tuesday. Yet again we erred by failing to confirm that the museums in which we were interested were indeed open; arriving at Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine we were (gently, and in slow, clear, French) lectured about national museums being closed on Tuesdays while city museums are closed …
Fezzik In Paris 