Restaurants we like

4. Bistro Romain, Fountaine des Innocente along the Marais Walk
This Italian restaurant chain can be found all around Paris. Keara likes it because she can count on getting something gluten-free - entrecote avec les haricote verte. I like it because I can count on getting something vegetarian - pepper and olive pizza! Keara likes the wine - Chateau de Sevil AOC Grava (Bordeaux).

Xan & Fras will like this one!

3. Cafe Madame - near Luxembourg Gardens
Construction workers take time from their busy day to have a glass of wine and eat lunch here
We like:
-the man with his dog at the bar! - the tight tables - happy waiters - Plat du Jour - poulet au Curry Riz - Galettes - Croque Monsoir - cafe creme, espresso and chocolat chaud!

2. Le Select
Cafe on Rue Martyrs

1. La Fourmi Ailee (Winged ants)
Restaurant: French

8 Rue de Fouarre 75005 Paris
Tel: 01 43 29 40 99

Everyone loves being at the Louvre!

Pompidou Museum

"The goal is not to adapt, it is to create." Piet Mondrian

We enter this modern building, riding escalators into the sky.

In this special exhibit, the third painting I see of Mondrian is; "Dune Landscape". I am immediately enthalled. I like anyone who paints dunes. This large blue and purple masterpiece is positioned between two lovely ladies; "passion flower" and "devotion".

Keara and I enjoy line and color as we are reminded that "painting - abstract painting - is in the domain of a proper experience both perceptive and cognitive."

I think it is interesting to see that Mondrian lived on Rue du Depart!

Piet departs from regular style of painting (whatever that is) - such an "in the moment guy" who actually now seems like a "futurist"!

".....colored area expanding unresticted around the environment was there to guide the human being of the future on the path to underiversal harmony...."

Some of the titles of Mondrian's paintings are delightful in and of themselves:

"Landscape with apple tree at left"
"Sailing boat moored on a river"
'Dunescape'
"Sunflower in a vase"
"Chrysanthamum with vertical barrier at left"
'Dune sketch in orange'

Amazing exhibit!

We also enjoy artists of the era from 1905 -1945 - so many marvelous Matisse paintings, a few of Raoul Dufy, Picasso, Modigliani, Bonnard, Chagall, and others.....ah!

PH Macaroons

Saint Sulpice

Statues at the Luxemburg Gardens