Ha a fascinating day yesterday in the arts and materials museum-where art and engineering collided.
Focaults pendulum,Lavoisiers laboratory along with numerous exhibits of every technology from weaving to glassmaking etc etc.Fantastic!
Old and new cars,rockets,old and new planes-all well explained. Building of churches,engines along with some social comment on theimpact of it all.Lastexhibits including the pendulumwere in a decommisiioned church on platforms.
Automaton display amazing- canaries in gold cages, M antoinnette playing a piano moving pictures and acrobats etc.You could press a button for some and they would do their thing.Then we were there for a display by the experts-hd no ticket for it but they didn't care!Hooray for the kind French attitude generally.Everything was demonstrated- a clock with moving music parts the king had owned-bellows and machinery parts were explained-I understood bits.None of this stuff in Oz!
Today off toRodin's house a garden a lovely small museum- then walked down Champs Elysee to Arc de T.
Hd a brief encounter with a gypsy who was confused when I tried to give a gold ring he had found at my feet back to him! Gendarme(Plainlothes) carted him off explaining to us he was a thief and ring was fake gold-not hard to tell!
Thought to go to Picasso but it was closed for renos when we got there after visiting Place de Vosges-gorgeous square well patronised by locals. Think pheremones are in the air here- courting couples young and old everywhere in clinches.Shock horror!Hd tourist 2 courses 12.50euro nr Bastille
Thought the Pompidou close by so checked it was late closing. Amazing stuff-esp installation Annette Messenger Look her up on web Weird butintersting.Home after the trip to supr market and patisserie. Good sleep tonight
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