Best Trip Ever

A couple of years ago, walking down a street in my neighborhood, I spotted something bizarre looming over the fence to someone’s back yard. It looked a little like an antique spaceship. Or a hot air balloon made of iron. I looked closer and saw the tops of other strange structures and [...]

When I was planning this trip, I made a mental list of the things that we’ve done more than once on other trips to Paris and therefore didn’t need to do this time.
The Musée d’Orsay was on that list, but as I thought about what to do with our last few days, I realized [...]

The wind and rain and cold drove us indoors again yesterday, this time to the Pompidou.
Modern art is my favorite, but we hadn’t been back to the Pompidou since our first visit to Paris in 1995. For some reason then I decided I didn’t like it—I don’t remember why. It almost seems like [...]