London & Paris 2008
(More) Paris
Thursday 14th August to Monday 18th August
Another grand building.
Later on, we headed to a modern art museum. Even the design of the museum was very, um, modern. (Hey, I know my art.)
They were happy for people to take photos inside, which has enabled me to show some of the weird stuff that was on show. No idea what this is.
This I do know. It's a room full of chairs.
This one looks a bit like crazy bathroom tilework.
And of course a gigantic orange rhino.
Strange stringy thing. Made of string.
Funny carpet room with piano outside.
Lynne posed in front of a big picture of purest blue.
And just when we thought that the blank blue picture was a little bit lacking in imagination, we saw these. Completely blank canvases. As art.
The ultimate in minimalism. The description below is hilarious. It's amazing what stuff you can come up with when you really think about things too much. Or take drugs. I tell you what, though - it must be bloody limiting when painting on a white canvas to be limited to white alone. Kinda limits your options.
Up at the top of the museum, there were some strange human-esque sculptures. Ooh look, there's the Eiffel Tower in the background. I bet I did that deliberately.
Well, that's enough art for this website. For now, anyway. Time to show a small girl on a scooter. She went round and round as we sat and quaffed liquid refreshments.
On the Sunday, we queued to go up the Eiffel Tower. Lynne didn't want to go all the way to the top, but I certainly did. It enabled some brilliant views.
Don't look down. Eek!
Proof that I was up there (as if you needed it).
This is probably the golden topped building I took a photo of before.
An aerial shot of the Arc de Triomphe. Something different.
Next up: the Louvre, with the distinctive pyramid out at the front.
Ooh look, there's a mini Pyramid here, on the left hand side.
Again, they had no problems with people taking photos, either of this headless winged chick...
...or the Mona Lisa.
Well, that's a lot of art to take in, huh. Time for some more light-hearted shots. There's something missing here.
Ah yes, that's it. Beers!
I had wondered where Curly Watts had gone after leaving Coronation Street, but evidently he's set up a business with veteran Spanish striker Raoul. That's nice.
The pattern of the clouds in the sky gave this picture a surrealist look. So I decided to include it.
I should know what this is, but I don't. It was more than two years ago that we went to Paris. I'm so sorry.
The TGV has really gone downhill in the last few years.
We clambered up to the top (ish) of the building shown above and look what we could see! La Tour Eiffel!
Lynne couldn't wait to get back down anyway. She's no friend of heights. Or they aren't friends of hers. Or something.
And, to finish, a monument "a nos heros" and "a nos morts", to their heroes and their dead, in other words.
And that's Paris in an uninformed nutshell.