Peter en Carina's Reisblog: maart 2015

27-31 March 2015: a few days in Paris

Train delay due to a major power failure in the North of Holland, hotel La Perle in our favorite street/area (Rue des Canettes/Saint Germain des Pres), Place St Sulpice, dinner with Claude and Catherine, exhibition Giotto to Caravaggio at Jacquemart-Andre, Musee d'Orsay, Jardin de Luxembourg, buying a coat in Le Marais, discovering the passages couverts des Panoramas and Jouffroy, Pantheon, Bobur, and the Marche Montorgeuil.

finally we could enter a train and defrost

27 March:

Phew what a 'cold start' of this trip to Paris. We had booked the early morning TGV from Rotterdam to Paris, however, after arriving at Rotterdam cs we had to wait for hours at the windy and cold railway station. Reason: due to a major power failure in the North of Holland (Diemen) no trains could arrive/leave Rotterdam; in short total chaos. We were lucky to board the non-cleaned, but warm, TGV that had arrived from Paris early that morning.

place St Sulpice

yeah we arrived; first drinks

Eglise Saint Sulpice

lighting a candle

historical: just after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo

near Place St Michel

Place de La Republique

Canal Saint Martin

a french selfie ...

Meeting Claude for dinner at his fav Italian restaurant, which is around the corner of his home. Later in the evening Catherine, Claude's wife joined us

great food

In french restaurants it's good to be a regular guest, or know a person that is a regular/who knows the owner. You are treated more friendly, and wow they even shake hands.

strolling in the streets of Montmartre

'red light pictures' before saying goodbye to our friends and

thanking them for the nice dinner and evening

the SL gallery owners :-)

28 March:

visiting the exhibition from Giotto to Caravaggio at Musee Jacquemart-Andre

The museum Jacquemart-Andre is situated in a lovely building at the Boulevard Haussmann. We had lunch at the restaurant of the museum.

the wintergarden & afterwards catching some sunshine in the garden of the museum

Le Marais; place des Vosges

I bought this cool coat in the Marais

29 March:

Musee d'Orsay

l'Origin du Monde

highlights

impressionists

yeah champagne and fois gras in the restaurant of the museum

Italian dinner at Pizzeria Santa Lucia in the Rue des Canettes

left photo: drinking Ricard at the cafe on place St Sulpice

couldn't resist the home made dessert of Santa Lucia

Saint Sulpice cathedral by night

30 March:

Jardin du Luxembourg

After a morning lingering in the Jardin du Luxembourg where it felt like spring, we visited the Pantheon, some of the old 'galleries de Paris' and afterwards met with Claude in the Brebant cafe.