Rubystarrs in Paris episode 3

Started late today after a really good nights sleep in a really comfy bed with no alarm or time constraints... so we wake up totally refreshed to a to a gloriously sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. We ate our continental breakfast and then we head off walking back down towards the river, passing through the Place de Edouard VII - a beautiful but little visited square...

across the various squares boulavards..rues... we are well lost by now 🤣 we chance upon a square commemorating Napoleon - thereno lack of monuments, obelisks or squares..

until eventually we finally hit the unmissable Jardin des Tuileries where we sat and ate our 2nd brekie.. pain de raisons and then walked across the river to the Museum D'Orsay.

This is an amazing space.

It was originally built as a train station and has been restored keeping the original art nouveau decor to showcase an amazing collection of Modern Art mainly impressionists... loads.. massive collection...

i.e just when you thought you'd seen all the Monet there was another one, and then another one, and yet more on the ground floor... but not just Monet... and then theres Guaguin, Van Gogh, Sisley, Manet Lautréc... there are so many amazing examples of impressionism, neo impressionism, post impressionism, I was very impressed - I bought a print-

I love this picture. I love the size of it and the squareness of it, and the kind of torn bits on the side making it look like it was just an afterthought, a quick painting. It's so much better in real life than any print I've ever seen. I thought it would look so nice in our house, and be a good momento of our visit Paris.

I am fascinated with the colours that the impressionist style make more than the actual finished painted scene so much so I have made a guess the picture compilation... btw I dont have the answers....

The whole museum is just stunning.. so much variation in art works.. a fantastic collection of Art Noveau, symbolism, grand machism, sculpture...... blah and the rest..

and soooo many just fabulous ornate pictures of every subject possible. But after about three hours we got serious Museum Leg. The building is amazing, it's beautiful, there are some fantastic collections in there and it's well worth the visit. But this was our 3rd galkery in 3 days ... we were flagging🤣

If I was to publish every photograph that I took you wouldn't need to visit because you've seen most of it🤣🤣 or at least the highlights. We had to leave...

After we left the museum we wandered through the streets of Montparnasse which was mostly a residential area with some very up market appartments. We got stung for an incredibly expensive beer but we were desperate so we needed it.. and then we went to a restaurant that some friends had recommended it called Boullion Chartier.

It has the most amazing stunning Art Nouveau space, beautiful tiles, beautiful ceiling some fantastic carved word and mirrors to be honest the food was kind of average, Its a bit cafeterarie culture.. cheap, fast but it was very edible. We'd read reviews where the waiters were very unfriendly and we worn't really bothered about that because, well....that's kind of Paris but actually we had a very friendly waiter... very smiley and very helpful so we had a nice meal and a bottle of wine which we drunk too quick🤣🤣🤣 so then we went home via the Metro

feeling quite tipsy ( defo worse for wear) but then why not? we're on holiday....

Its quite exhausting this holiday lark.... 3 galleries in 3 days, plus the tower and the rest... we've walked about 30 miles.. the traffic and noise is relentless - but its a beautiful city and we are making the most of our time here.

I leave you with this very fabulous painting - but none of the photos do justice to the real exhibits.

Alesund

Our final destination stop was Alesund. This is a very pretty town in southern Norway built on a peninsula. All the houses are painted pretty colours and a lot of the architecture is all very Art Nouveau based. This is because the town itself was completely burnt to the ground In 1904 by a fire for which they never found the original cause. The whole town had to be rebuilt and this became a huge National Effort and a lot of prominent and up and coming architects flocked to the town to stick there 20 pence in. Consequently the town is very heavily Art Nouveau which was very fashionable at the time. There is this wonderful Museum just off the harbour which is a very beautiful Art Nouveau house. It has amazing panelling, doors, wallpaper, and it's all furnished with beautiful art Nouveau Furniture. It also house a collection of of enameled Art Nouveau Trinkets,boxes, spoons, jewellery, very very beautiful. There is an interesting collection of old books and paintings a...

The Blue Dot

Excellent evening spent at the first Blue Dot festival held at Jodrell Bank. Clever use of the radio telescope as back drop for the main stage... there were some major teething issues which hopefully will addressed if this event happens again - mainly access and parking.. it was a nightmare approach to the festival and fortunately as we were only doing one night we decided to ditch the car and chose to walk the last mile and half into the site... what a relief as if we had queued we would most certainly missed Public Service Broadcasting which was one of the reasons we were going.. anyway we caught them and then enjoyed fantastic set by Underworld - danced much of the night away in the rain - my trusty solfest poncho almost kept me dry.. it was a splendid evening and the telescope looked brilliant when lit up when it got dark. There was a rather fab "installation" called a luminarium, lack of site information - another hiccup meant we were really lucky to catch it just ...

Goodbye Dissertation!!!

The dissertation is finished... it took me ages to do all the detail stuff Harvard referencing ect... the simplest tasks were starting to drive me mad!! I cant believe how long it took me to work out how to number pages excluding the first two pages aagghhhh... I suppose I should be grateful that its not like the olden days where you had to get it typed and bound before hand in - this essay has been a hard slog, a subject which I felt was interesting - how the digital explosion is ruining traditional creative methods turned into a fairly unexciting - pretty boring unexceptional topic! there will never be a next time but my advice is think of something funky - does Danny Boyle like garden Gnomes - Racoon meets Lady Gaga - anything that might surprise you but not too grown up!! I have worked hard and will be rewarded with a mid grade because there is no passion in this essay - the hard slog is evident as is the lack of enthusiasm - C'est la vie you cant win them all....

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