Tuesday 28 January 2014

Quai Branly

An outstanding ethnographic museum right near the Eiffel Tower. In the musical section alone, they have over 10,000 instruments. Fabulous!

http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/









DM amongst the drums






The Eiffel Tower looming above


The gardens around the gallery are spectacular at night





Les Passages de Paris

This is a favourite thing of mine to do in Paris. Visit the covered Passages which link lanes and streets together


http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/mar/02/paris-hidden-passages-shopping-shops



This is the best one  -  Passage Vivienne. What wonderful things we discovered there, some of which will eventually be on a journey to live in Hobart




At the wine bar there - afternoon tea for his two boys



Park your bike there - why not?



My new hat - a Stetson that you can roll up and stuff in your bag






At the entrance to this Passage you can find the Jean Paul Gaultier shop - amazing




...and opposite in the same street there was an Anders Petersen photographic show. The two could not be more diametrically opposed