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Trip Start
Oct 04, 2011
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Trip End
Oct 15, 2011
What I did
Bancusi's studio, Defender of Time clock, Innocents Fountain, Les Halles, St. Eustache church
Paris, France, Île-de-France, France
Thursday, October 6, 2011
After breakfast, we headed to Centre Pompidou to view some modern art. Gus and I have an extremely different opinion of modern art, and it led to some very heated whispering. We also visited Constantin Brāncuşi's workshop, which reminded us of our own crazy Romanian back home and his Coral Castle. Brāncuşi's studio is small, but insightful as to how sculptures do what they do (or at least, how they did what they did).
The Defender of Time clock was disappointing, but then we arrived twenty minutes passed the hour.
We stopped off for happy hour at a restaurant that I think was called JoJo. We had wine and cheese and more wine, after some window shopping where Manny picked up a hat at a thrift shop, we headed to Les Halles where we engaged in rowdy trilingual chanting with local hooligans. Did I mention we'd been drinking?
Dinner was at Café Beaubourg, which did not quite live up to the hype. On our way home, we picked up some wonderfully cheap bottles of wine.
Quote of the day: "It's nice to know that malls here are as depressing as in America." ~Edwin
