during the day, we puttered around doing all those things one needs to do on weekends. grocery shopping, cleaning house, doing laundry. but we knew that jj was going out tonight, so we would go out and do something then.
there is an exhibition at the grand palais of the “stein collection” art from the collection of gertrude stein and the stein family. it is ending sunday and normally would be packed, but we have learned the trick of going in the early evening when most people are preparing for dinner. we got tickets for 7pm. it was the perfect time to go – not too crowded, not empty either. the show had matisse, cezanne, degas and picassos. all the big names, but i was somehow a bit bored by them. wasn’t sure if it was overexposure to these artists, but p wasn’t wowed either. he said he didn’t care for the matisse at all.
afterwards, we decided to continue into town. we have to make ourselves make a little more effort. we wandered through the palais royale and behind, to where the galerie vivienne and galerie colbert are. these galeries are old covered arcades with quaint little shops and a few restaurants. we found a bistro in the galerie and were able to sit “outside” – under the glass roof, under a heater and have a light dinner and glass of wine. lovely.
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